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NOTES. 



P. 127, 3. For the Beati (Ps. cxix) followed by the Magnificat of. 129, 8. 



127, 8. fermaidni: iov fermit-ni: this form of 1 pi. is found abeady in the 

 Glosses, e.g. "Wb lorflS, guidmit. 



127, 10. The word d'wl, if sound, is perhaps the dil 'poetry' of which Meyer 

 ( Contributions) quotes a single example from a poem written in ierla feine ; but 

 more probably we should read int ilach. There is perhaps a reference here to the 

 legend that Christ was born do midluch na li-Ingine, S na 11 7529. 



127, 13. Cethe for cid he. So 135, 24. ceth : similarly maith for mad, 144, 3. 



127, 15. With this paragraph compare ZCP. iii. 29 § 16 {Hide of Columba : 

 cf. Haddan and Stubbs' Coimcils ii. 1. 119) "men that gossip on trivial and 

 worldly topics, or murmur at things they can neither help nor hinder, . . . these 

 tliou shouldst not receive, but let them have a blessing if they deserve it." 



127, 16. ni fogni laisim. This phrase recurs very frequently in our text 

 and also in the Rule of the Celi Be, (where the form fosgni is also found). 

 Fogn'i, n'l fogna are similarly used in the Uraicept, with the sense ' serves (does not 

 serve),' ' is used (is not used) ' : e.g. BB. 316^8 fogni do chdch, so BB. 326 h 14 : 

 nifognae a telgud noe BB. 331 « 6 : so, too, in Sg. Priscian 203 a 17, 220 h 9, 10, etc. 

 In our text we have regularly yii fogni for ni fogna, no doubt because fogni has 

 become a formula and its original meaning is forgotten. 



127, 18. fobenad: for the meaning cf. Laws v. 284, b foben inracus acobuir. 



doairmescad : this form is against Thurneysen's analysis tairme-sco (Handbuch, 

 §843). 



127, 19. Manip lor etc. This is obscure, perhaps corrupt. With reim iond aosa 

 coimsi compare >-eim iond aosa i senchellaib 128, 15 : reim dosa lanamnasa, 145, 24. 

 If coimsi is for coimse, gen. of commus, then des coimse may mean influential people, 

 such as neighbouring chieftains. But perhaps we should read des cuibse, 'people 

 who came to confess' : cuibse being gen. of ciibus, which two lines further on means 

 ' confession.' There seems to have been a confusion between cubus and cobais. 



128, 12. For sen-tascide cf. Togail Troi index. The next words are corrupt. 

 128, 14. Helair is the " Elarius, anchorite and scribe of Loch Ore" whose death 



is recorded by the Four Masters, anno 802. See O'Donovan ad loc. and Plummer, 

 Vit. Sanct. Hibern. ii. 26. Helair's island (mentioned below) is Inis Locha Cre, 

 or Monahincha, near Eoscrea. There was a settlement of ' Colidei ' there : see 

 Peeves, Culdees, p. 21. 



128, 15. sencliellaib. I do not understand this term: it is used again at 137, 5. 



128, 2 1 . torud ind erlamai : tithes due from the fine erlama or tribe to which 

 tlie patron saint of the church belonged : Laws iii. 38, 72, 74. For the principle 

 laid down cf. § 77. 



128, 25. Mochua = Cronan of Eoscrea: cf. Mart. Oeng., April 28, and pp. 119, 

 121 : Plummer, Vit. Set. Hib. i. Hx., ii. 22. 



128, 27. With the details in this paragraph cf. Be Arreis, § 32 (Eev.Celt.xv. 497). 



daig cudnuda na salm, etc. Mr. Plummer suggests tliat Helair preferred not 

 to begin the day with the Beati (Ps. cxix), but to recite it in its proper order : 

 he first recited Pss. i to cxviii in an ordinary vigil and afterwards Pss. cxix to 

 end {cond neocli noduslen) in a cross-vigil, i.e. lying prostrate with arms outspread. 

 The claMsefobithin iond forcetail is obscure : cf. note on 133, 9. 



