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144, 26. Diarmait was abbot of lona from 815 to 831 (Reeves' Adamnan 388); 

 so ' bishop Cartbach ' cannot bere be tbe saint usually known under that name, 

 Mocbutu of Eatben and Lismore, wbo died in 636. Perbaps the person meant is 

 tbe Cartbach, abbot of Tir Da Glas, wbo died in 851 (Four Masters) : be may have 

 been both abbot and bishop. 



144, 28. Ni be erchailiud lat, etc. : a warning against ascetic vows of excessive 

 rigour : compare tbe story told in § 34 and tbe tone of §§ 68, 77, 80, 82. 



144, 35. 'Between nocturus and tierce:' cf. CuUees, 90, 13 (LBr. 10J30). 



145, 3. //•/ geld Mis, cf. LBr. 9 J 34 {Culdees, 85, 24), minale gell de anmannaib 

 and tbe modern geall le ' almost ' : gell re leith marl, Death Tales 42, 2. 



145, 14. cin troiacid: a breach of rules punishable by fasting; but one would 

 expect troiscthe. 



146, 8. Cf. 129, 24 and LBr. 9*29 {Culdees, 85, 18). 



146, 13. Mam chaithea feoil 7 saill in pasclia : cf. note on § 12. 



146, 28. hithbur : see note on bithur, 136, 31. 



146, 29. Beo-marbad. The correction beogad 7 marbad is easy, and accords with 

 each 'la cein : if we keep the manuscript reading, we must understand it as meaning 

 'all but killing,' just as beS-gonta means 'wounded but still living,' beS-chned 'a 

 wound that is not fatal.' 



146, 32. inda timchol may mean 'apart from them,' ' without their knowledge': 

 for this use of timchell cf. Pass, and Horn. Glossary; Tbes. Pal.-Hib. i. 597, note d. 

 But perhaps it is to be taken with timthirid ' the servant who waited upon them.' 



146, 33. seland always implies some little indulgence in the way of food: of. 135, 

 6; 151, 25; O'Dav., 1484. 



Tlie object of adding extra water and boiling for a longer time is apparently to 

 make the mess more digestible and nourishing. 



147, 2. tiug-lagin. I liave not met tbe word elsewhere; but tbe meaning must 

 evidently be 'porridge' or something very similar. 



147, 15. Antan tra dontic, etc. There is something wrong with this sentence; 

 some words seem to have been lost. 



147, 25. ni argara Hid dwb : cf. citmma aranggairt'is gortai 7 ittaid dtb na hubla 

 US 23al6. 



147, 28. mani pendea a reir: cf. LBr. 10*38 {Culdees 90, 25) inti ndd penni do reir 

 anmcharut. 



148, 2. fothruo should perhaps he fothruead, but cf. co foilc 7 co futhraieJA] 58«14. 

 148, 6. ni accamar praind i}idi\_b^ fri die. On Sundays tbe prandium seems to 



have been postponed until after vespers : see note on 131, 11. 



148, 13. rombeir : tbe infixed -n- denotes that tbe verb is dependent on some 

 implied idea such as ' be sure that.' 



148, 19. neichforbe lortid do muindtir de. We should perbaps write do muintir 

 Be, translating: 'anything that remains to the family of God (tbe works) after they 

 are satisfied. But cf. 128, 7 a f orb i for lortaid na midndtire. 



148, 20. maith leisim bess : bere maifh is for tnad, as in 144, 3 : leisim apparently 

 refers to lex aos, a phrase which I take to mean the ' idle rich ' {lese-des) ; unless it 

 rather denotes those wbo lead a profane life, neglecting the labours of piety [sdethar). 

 It was evidently a disputed point whether contributions should be accepted from such 

 persons: cf. 128, 16; 159, 15. 



148, 22. This paragraph is somewhat obscure. Tbe first sentence would naturally 



