376 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



In the same work,^ we read of a later Guitolin : — 



" A regno Guorthigerni usque ad discordiam Guitolini at Ambrosii anni sunt xii, 

 quod est Guoloppum, id est Catguuloph." 



To the last word a note is appended — 

 " Scilicet Pugna Guoloppi : de qua apud alios nil occurrit." 



In the Irish version of Xennius'^ we find the following: — " Gor- 

 tigern, son of Gudal, took the chief sovereignty of Britain, and he was 

 oppressed by the fear of the Cruithnians and Gaels, and hy the power 

 of Ambrose, King of Prance and Letavian Britain." Dr. Todd adds a 

 note: — " Aurelius Ambrosius, with his brother Uthyr Pendragon, are 

 said to have taken refuge in Britanny, and to have sailed from thence 

 to Totness, where they declared against Yortigern. But Aurelius is 

 not elsewhere described as having any sovereignty in Gaul. The 

 Latin has merely ' ]S"ecnon et a timore Ambrosii.' " 



The passage in the Latin iN^ennius^ stands thus : — " Guorthigemus 

 regnavit in Britannia : et dum ipse regnabat, urgebatur a metu 

 Pictorum Scottorumque, et a Bomanico impetu, necnon et a timore 

 Ambrosii." 



We also find in the Genealogies and Families of the British Saints 

 in the lolo MSS.^ mention made of GwytheUn, Saint and Bishop, 

 the son of Teithvalch, the son of Nynniaw, of the family of Bran the 

 Blessed. It is added : "It is not known where he was Bishop of." 

 But in the Book of Llandaff, ^ the name Gwythelyn occurs in the 

 enumeration of Chorepiscopi of Llandaff prior to St. Dubiicius, and 

 the Editor adds that he may be recognised among the Archbishops of 

 London in Godwin's list in the form Guiteliniis. As Mnian is sup- 

 posed to have died in the year 432, this Guitelin must have lived 

 about the end of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century. 



I have met with one other reference to a person of this name. 

 St. Ambrose, in one of his sermons,^ mentions a Vitalinus along with 

 his brother ]Mariauus, as deserving praise for their generosity in con- 

 tributing towards the work of building a church. 



- For the present, I am not to be regarded as endeavouring to 

 identify the Fitalin of the Ogam with any one of the persons 

 mentioned above. I only remark that the designation Maqi Fitalin, 

 used, as I suppose it is, to denote a descendant, might refer to a pro- 

 genitor belonging even to the fourth century. 



1 Ibid., p. 77. - Todd's Ed., p. 75. ^ Chap, xxviii. 



* Piiffe 541. 5 Page 623. ^ Serin. Ixiii. 6. 



