459 
*« Their ministers, as their names indicate, were all Irish- 
men. Mabillon observed this fact, and says :—< Ejus litteris 
subscribunt septem episcopi, quos omnes Scottos fuisse barbara 
eorum nomina satis arguunt.’* 
“¢ Theyare truly Scots, but their names are not ‘ barbarous;’ 
at least we, who find most of them in our records, and know 
how to pronounce them, do not think so. We would call Mo- 
guntiacum a very barbarous name ; but when we see it in the 
German form of Mentz, or the French Mayence, we are more 
favourably disposed towards it. 
“T shall now examine these subscribing names seria- 
tim. 
“1. Beatus.—The abbot’s name js manifestly an ecclesias- 
tical one, as that of the founder, Benedict for Dubhan ; and if it 
follows the rule of domestic exchange, it is a Latinized form of 
Beoaedh, or Beoan.t This custom of exchanging native for 
Latin or Germanized names has disguised many of the Irish 
missionaries on the Continent, and renders the Trish origin of 
some undoubted Scots, as, for instance, Disibod and Fridolin, 
80 questionable to the minds of some. 
“2. Comeanus.—A name found in the Calendar of Done- 
gal, at Feb. 27, Aug. 2, Oct. 13; in the Annals of the Four 
Masters at the year 868. An abbot of this name, in the form 
Conganus, is mentioned by St. Bernard.t Mabillon reads Co- 
migani, but the m is evidently dissected by him. 
“3. Ecnocu.—The old genitive of Eochaidh, here go- 
verned by signum. The common form of this genitive in our 
early pedigrees is Echach, 
“4. SuaTHar.—A rare name, for which Suadhbhar of the 
Four Masters, A. D. 889, is probably a parallel. 
“5. Mavcumers.—There is no parallel for this name in 
SS Rear coeeerear «ee DY WD 7s 
* Annales Ord. S. Bened., tom. ii. p. 59. 
t See Colgan, Trias Thaumaturga, p. 1810, n. 188; Acta Sanctor., 
p. 562. 
ft Vita S. Malachiz, Przefat. (Messingham, Florilegium, p. 351), 
