14 Fakadav, Irish Infliioice on Icelandic Literature. 



cefovyrd. It might equally well represent Old Norse Olver or 

 At/r, both much commoner names. 



3. A/nste, Annals of Ulster 862, &c. Dr. vStokes etjuates 

 this with Anglo-Saxon Einvils. It may, however represent Old 

 Norse ^?^"S^w/ (compare the form A^isl oi Islendinga Bok, 12). 

 He takes the form Ossill, Osil, of Cogadh Gaidhil, ch. 29, for 

 a different name, "perhaps Asvaldr"' ; but the Annals of Ulster 

 (Rawl. B. 489), fol. 25", 2, 1. 6, and the Three Fragments' have 

 respectively Auisle, Ois/e, for the same entry, in 866 ; and the 

 older M.S. (Book of Leinster) of Cogadh Gaidhil, has Oisli. 



4. Birndi/i, Cogadh Gaidhil, ch. 36. Ur. vStokes suggests 

 that perhaps Birn- = Bjariii or Bjorn, and -din some Irish 

 termination. IJut the -d- evidently belongs to the stem, from the 

 form Bir/id, mentioned above (a form unnoticed by Dr. Stokes). 

 Then -in might be an error fur the ///. (abbreviation of mac) 

 of a patronymic ; or it might be the Irish diminutive suffix -in. 



5. Brodor iarla, Cogadh Gaidhil, ch. 87 ; Annals of Ulster, 

 1014. '•'•Bruadar taoisioch na nDanar," {i.e., leader of the Danes) 

 Chronicon Scotorum, 10 12, &c. It seems doubtful whether 

 this is a Norse name, though the man here mentioned in the 

 entries refeiiing to the battle of Clontarf is certainly the BrlrSir 

 of Njals Saga, 155-7. But it occurs nowhere else in Norse 

 sources as a proper name, while it does come much earlier in 

 the Irish annals, as an Irish name; <?,§". ^r^ai^ar Mac Aedha, 

 (Four Masters, 851, Chronicon Scotorum, 853); Brziadar l^l&c 

 Dunlaing (Four Masters, 860) ; Bruadar Mac luichthighern 

 (Annals of Tigernach 982, fol. 15-'', 2, 1. 12). 



6. Colphin, Cogadh Gaidhil, ch. 24. Old Norse Koll'einn. 

 Dr. Stokes does not notice that the name occurs elsewhere in 

 the annals in a form much more like the Norse : Co/imin, Four 

 Masters 988, Chronicon Scotorum 9S7, Annals of Tigernach 9S9 

 (fol. 15'', 2, 1. 42, out of place). 



7. Dolfinn is given by Dr. Stokes as Anglo-Sa.xon, but is 

 more probably Scandinavian ; the father Finntuir (Annals of 



^ Three Fragments of Irish History, ed. O'Donovan. 



