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old Irish forms have undergone more or less alteration. Certain eccentricities 

 of spelling are worth noting, particularly the scribe's fondness for writing 

 Id for II, nd for nn: e.g. ildius, caildech, andos, antics, ioidoii (= ani), etc. 

 He sometimes treats the symbol 7 as = ^ or d: hence such a spelling as 

 alyessa = cddessa = cd-lessa, figilj = figild = figil. 



The language is unquestionably Old Irish, but it has naturally undergone 

 a good deal of alteration; for the most part, however, this is limited to 

 an eccentric method of spelling, combined with such lawlessness in the 

 treatment of terminations as one expects to find in a fifteenth-century 

 transcript of an ancient document. There are not many signs that the scribe 

 of our MS. deliberately altered the forms which he found in his original. 



With a text of this character it is impossible to rely on the exacter tests 

 of age. But a simimary of the main points of grammatical usage will make it 

 clear that the language as a whole is late Old- Irish. 



Article. 

 Gen. sg. fern., ace. pi., and gen. pi., usually na ; but inda, g. s. fem. 128, 16 ; 

 133, 20; inda, ace. pi. 160, 22 ; ionda, inda, g. pi. 147, 4 ; 151, 15, 21. 

 Nom. mas. pi. generally ind, once inda 134, 11. 



Fronomis. 



The infixed pronoun is regularly used, though the forms are sometimes 

 incorrectly transmitted. The later substitution of the independent pronoun 

 is found twice : congraid /le 150, 3 ; corroloisc he 157, 11 ; noduslen 129, 2 is a 

 late form. 



The affixed pronoun occurs in gahtiseom 129, 7 ; gahtisom 140, 2 ; ibtlii 

 129,33; clandti 150, 27 ; roherhi (i) 14:7 , 8 ; gahta som {= gahthus) 128, 38 ; 

 gaiUhus 138, 29 ; gaJ)t'US 139, 1 ; heHus 158, 6. 



Prep, with pron. : note the forms essiu, eisse 149, 28, 32 (Mid. Ir. esti). 



The demonstrative pronoun suide, -side, is frequent ; the unaccented -ede 

 occui'S in gaibthiis som eidi 138, 29 ; gabtus edi 139, 1 ; dolluigter eidi 139, 5. 



The demonstratives dn, son are frequent. 



' Other ' : i7id aloe fecht . . . fecht nuild 138, 13 ; ind ala hi 161, 10 ; 

 each 'la cein 146, 29 : each 'la sel . . . ind tale 147, 16. 



' Self ' : 2 singular fein 148, 27 ; fadein 142, 3 ; 3 sing, fadesin (5 times) ; 

 buddesin 152, 10 ; fadein 161, 11. 



Eelative -n- is kept (1) after i7itan (11 times, but is also frequently 

 omitted); (2) once after uar ( = hore) 147, 14 ; amail (aviail nach [n]dentar 

 148, 3 ; (3) in other cases, marking a dependent clause, 135, 19 ; 148, 13 ; 

 142, 23 ; 144, 19 ; 150, 9, 14 ; 160, 23 (?) ; 162, 37. 



Nxmierals : tern- menadcha 158, 1 ; teora biadi 129, 8 ; teora bliadna 134, 36 : 

 incorrectly, di mer 150, 32 ; cethtri cridiscel 136, 19. 



