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153, 11. Z>/ar/?ifl!¥: the Attiot of lona already mentioned, § 47. It ^vas during Ms 

 tenure that Blathmac mae Flaind was murdered in lona hy Xorse pirates : see Four 

 blasters, 823. "^Vlio Cunii was I cannot say : he may have been the ' chief of Cinel 

 Loegairi' who died in 792 (FiT.}. Blathmac was celebrated in verse hy 'Walafridus 

 Sti-aho : see Eeeves' Adamnan, 315, 388-9. with the references there given, andPeete 

 medii eevi Carolov. u.. 297, ed. Diimmler and Traube. 



153, 15. cotiditoirmesc dioh : ef. Pass, and Horn. 575 ni rotoirmescad dihso. 



153, 16. ind leuific. See Leviticus xsi. 11 ; xxii. 4. 



153, 17. For this use of occo denoting a set of circumstances, cf. Thes. Palaeoh. 

 ii. 252 Huisqiie prius in calicem 7 issed canar occo, and the instances given by Fraser 

 in ZCP. Tin. 56. 



153, 18. The latter part of this story (from 154, 5 et dixit illi) and the next 

 have been edited by Bergin (Erin, ii. 222) fi-om Stowe C. i. 2 : some of the 

 principal variants are given in our critical notes (marked C). 



153, 19. Findio mac Uiatach : probably Finden of Mag BUe, who belonged to 

 Dal Fiatach (LL, 349el0; BB. 219o39). 



153, 29. tecJi jiende : Bergin reads tech pine, but a special house for those under- 

 going penance is expressly prescribed in the Canons of the Synod of Aix-la-Chapelle : 

 Hefele, ConeUien, iv, 24. 



154, 2. isintturtt for iiind urd. 



165, 27. nieonfil ind riayail, etc. Fasting is of course regularly prescribed as a 

 penance : the meaning here is perhaps that it is not enjoined as an habitual 

 discipline. 



155, 28. fueregtar for fuirigther, from fo-rigim : the variant fuirestar might be 

 referred either to for igim or to for icim. 



155, 29. A Eule ascribed to Comgall will be found in Erin i. 192 seq. : but it 

 contains no reference to fasts. 



155, 33. hairgine Coluim Cilli : presumably a loaf of a particular size and make 

 used by St. Columba : cf. ardn Mochtie, 128, 25. 



156, 1 . Page 45 of the Jis. is written in a different hand from the rest ; and it 

 is noticeable that aspiration of medials and of m is much more frequent here, and 

 that the only cases of d. pi. of adjectives in -ib occur in this page, 156, 17 and 157, 2, 

 also the late forms rottiit, rotinol, 157, 10, 15. 



156, 7. erdath for airdd<ich : see Meyer, Contributions. It would seem that 

 St. Columba lent his countenance to some festival of pagan origin connected with 

 the growth of the crops. Or perhaps his Feast of the Ploughmen is an imitation of 

 the Jewish feast of the first-fruits: see Levit. xxui. 10. 



156, 9. nobithe : passive imperf. of the substantive verb. 



156, 13. ir-riagail Coluni CilU. There is no reference to this subject in the 

 Regula CoJumbcB printed by Haddan and Stubbs ii. 119. 



156, 19. superponat . . . superposiiio . . . cena careat. These formulae are used, 

 e.g. in the Penitentials of Gildas and Cummean (Wasserschleben Bussordn. 107, 466, 

 489). Superpositio is properly the continuation of the Friday fast into the Saturday : 

 it was sometimes practised as a form of self-discipline, sometimes enjoined as a 

 penance: Dachesne, Christian TVorship (translation), 231, 285. 



156, 23. forich: reeid foricc, 'finds.' 



156, 29. in mile cetnenn. Mr. Plummer suggests that there may be some reference 

 to a limit of distance imposed on Sunday walks, a ' Sabbath day's journey,' but perhaps 

 it is rather an obligation to make excursions on Sundays with some pious object. 



