et Proceedings of the Royal Trish Academy. 
is, a thousand paces from the [that] mountain downward, Formenus 
is,’ being tantamount to the affirmation that there exists a church 
wherein the memory of Formenus is venerated, or where his relics are 
deposited, lower down the mountain near the place where Dathi met 
his death on that occasion. There is no ecclesiastical foundation of 
any Formenus or Firminus in any part of the whole region of the Alps 
but the one ascribed to Firmin at Pfeffers ; and, in point of fact, that 
church of Pfeffers does stand about the distance in question below 
the village and height of St. Perminsberg in the region to which the 
inquiry @ priort has so conducted us. This fact of the existence of 
two places—one the hermitage of the recluse on the height, and one 
the church, ascribed to a founder of the same name, on the lower 
slope of the mountain—has obviously been regarded as a circumstance 
necessary to be noted in the story. Mac Firbis thus refers to it in his 
version of the legend:—‘‘ Formenius then went a thousand paces 
down from that mountain and dwelt in another habitation,’’** both 
statements importing the existence at St. Perminsberg of an anchorite 
called Forminus, Formenius, or Firminus, previous to the foundation 
of the great church of Fabaria. 
The gloss-writer, having thus pointed at a place lying on the track 
which Dathi has been, so far, presumed to have followed, goes on to 
give other topographic indications which, so far as resemblances of 
names after the lapse of so many centuries can be relied on, appear 
to confirm the first identification, and to localize the scene of the in- 
vaders’ retreat in the district which has been described as extending 
from Ragatz and Sargans to the head of the Lake of Zurich. Com- 
menting on the nov catha of the text, he gives a list of the nine 
battles fought by the irish under Aulay, as they withdrew, on their 
return journey, carrying with them the dead body of the king. These 
are the names, in their nominative cases which he enumerates :— 
1. Corpar. 4. Miscal. 7. Moli. 
2. Cinne. 5. Larrand. 8. Grenis. 
3. Fale. 6. Corde. 9. Fornar. 
It may be doubted whether Corpar be the name of a place or a 
name descriptive only of the strife about the dead body of Dathi, 
corp-ar, i.e. “body,” or ‘‘corpse-slaughter.” The name is not found in 
present topography either here or, so far as diligent search enables me 
to speak, anywhere in the Alpine or sub-Alpine region. Neither has 
Miscal or any name apparently representing it been found. But of 
the remaining seven names five certainly present a close agreement 
in sound and local collocation with existing names of places alread 
enumerated on the route from Ragatz by the Wallenstadt defile 
towards Zurich. 
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