1 6 1''aka1)A\', Irish Iiifiiiciuc on Icelandic Literature. 



for that form, since corresponding to Snad}:;air in ch. 94 of 

 Cogadh Ciaidliil, the Annals of Ulster, 1014 (fol. 36'' 2, 1. 19), 

 has Si/(jr/i:;air AUiX Loch ("c, loi.j, Siuirti^^/iair. This would be 

 S7'(irtx't'ffr in Norse. 



16. .S'//r?/;//V/, genitive, (Cogadh (laitlhil, ch. 36, 117), Si/aiii/i 

 in)ininali\e, (ch. i).}), may he for Svei/i/i. The nominative form 

 is not in accordance with the usual sound-changes from Norse 

 to Irish ; hut the name occurs in a form resembling it in a Latin 

 chronicK',' which has '' Si/a/ii regis Danorum filii Haroldus, 

 (".iiuUus," \c., where other annals (<.,;,'., Ann. Cambr.) have 

 Arct;!'/"/ or S:(<e!>i. 



17. AV///////, genitive, (Cogadh Ciaidhil, ch. 117), Sin'i/ii/i, (ch. 

 3()), Su/ii/t nominative, (ch. 94). Dr. Stokes only quotes the lirst 

 two lorms, and equates with Norse 677//-////'/, the swine. He does 

 not notii-e that in both these cases the word is in the genitive, 

 and th.U the only nominative form given could not possibly 

 represent Svi/t-inn. 



iS. '/\>iri>eanhiii^/i, (Cogadh C.aidhil, ch. 36), is given by Dr. 

 Stokes as perhaps for Norse )')on'ar'^r with a Caelic suffix. The 

 simple loim jJi'/Vi//-'^/-, which he does not give, occurs in Loch 

 Cc. iJio, ijii, 7(V/Av\.'' nuu- Call Cihoeidil. 



u). Tonuair \\xA\ (Annals of Ulster, S47, etc.). Dr. Stokes 

 deri\cs from \iorir, \ii'rcirr, ]\'>ri;r/rr ; the first is probably 

 right. He also gives Tamar, Tomar = \)orr, from * \ionijr, a 

 view which is shared by Steenstrup.^ There is no need to 

 dilTerentiate here, as the shorter form is probably a scribal 

 error. ]\'n- never occurs in Norse as a man's name ; and in 

 almost all cases where the shorter form occurs in Irish, other 

 sources give the longer. So for To'iuir (Dublin MS. of the 

 Innisfallen Annals, 848), Annals of Ulster, S47 (fol. 23^ i, 1. 28) 

 and Chronicon Scotorum, S4S, have Tomair: for Tamrar mac 

 Elgi (Cogadh Caidhil, ch. 33). the Bodleian Innisfallen Annals 

 (fol. 16'' I. 1. 3-'') have 71'///r(7/> mac Elgi ; in Cogadh Gaidhil, ch. 

 23, where the Dublin MS. has Tomar, the Book oi Leinsier has 



* Sym. Dunelm. llistoria Keguni, 1009. 



* ^\'orrn.:nnfrnic (Kol>enhavn, 1876-82) IL 361. 



