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The diversion, or rather the occupation of fishing, is, during this 

 interval superadded in evidence to that of hunting. Giraldus, as has 

 been noticed,* speaks of the fishermen of Lough Neagh, while we 

 find Arngrim Jonas expressly mentioning the " piscatores Irlandos" 

 as navigating the northern seas."|- It is also to be remarked, that 

 about A. D. 1138, Turlough O'Conor revived:J: those Taltenian games 

 already mentioned, § but which had been for a long time discon- 

 tinued. 



The Antiquitates Celto-Scandinaviaell furnish some evidence of 

 the Irish dress previous to the time of Giraldus, and Torfaeus, in his 

 Hist. Norveg. (vol. iii. p. 486,) gives a precisely similar account. 

 Giraldus is more full as cited below,** and his description is almost 

 literally followed by Brompton in his Chronicle, (p. 1075.) It is 

 satisfactory to remark how closely the notices of the Danish and 

 English historians coincide on the above point. Grose, in the Intro- 

 duction to his Antiquities of Ireland, furnishes a drawing of a native 



delectantur et poesi. Ad mUitiam maxime sunt affecti, et ad earn cum primis qaibnsqiie apti 

 nationibus, utpote animosi, fortes, expediti, patientes laboris et inediae, appetentes gloria el 

 capacissimi cum totius disciplince militaris turn usus atque exercitii armorum oninis generis. 

 Scientias seu liberales disciplinas multum amant, et viros eruditos plurimum honorant. Sunt 

 etiam passim acutis praediti ingeniis, et ubi commoditatem ad id nacti addicunt se libenter 

 studiis, diligenter eis insistunt ; primores vero ad ea feriuntur studiorum sive scientiarum 

 genera in quibus ingenii acumen, quam alia in quibus nulla mentis vis exercet se et exerit." — 

 DeHib. Com. p. 112. 



• Ante, p. 140. f Ante, p. 226. 



X See ©'Conor's Rer. Hib. Script, vol. i. Prol. p. clxxxiii. § Ante, p. 162. 



II " Venit iUe et hoc quidem modo vestitus, interulam braccasque (talares) ligulis sub plantis 

 constrictas, et breve pallium indutus, capite pilleum Hibernicum, hastile autem manu gesta< 

 bat."— Ant. Celt. Scand. p. 248. 



** " Capuliis namque modicis assueti sunt et arctis, trans humeros deorsum, cubito tenus 

 protensis variisque colorum generibus panniculorumque plerumque consutis : sub quibus pha- 

 lingis laneis quoque palliorum vice utuntur seu braccis caligatis seu caligis braccatis, et his 

 plerumque colore fucatis." — Top. Hib. Dist. 3. c. 10. 



