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156, 31. in mile cemind fri torrome fir galair: cf. ceini torroma lohair lis, in a 

 poem attributed to Adamnan, ACL. iii. 215. 



157, 4. I cannot identify eitlier Crundmael or Artri. 



157, 13. Bithhes menadche, etc. Another copy of this story is fonnd in R.I. A. 

 23 P 3, and has been printed in Anecdota from Irish mss. i. 75 (see also ACL. ii. 136). 

 Some variants are given in the critical notes (marked P). The latter part of the tale 

 is, however, corrupted in this copy. The word which we have expanded as hithbes is 

 written in our text bithh~, in 23 P 3 bithbin. Meyer regards it as a man's name, 

 quoted as authority for the story. But this makes it difficult to explain the words 

 is e a auctartas : one would rather expect is e as aiictarthas don scel-so sis. The word 

 hithbes is found (as Mr. Plummer points out to me) in Keating's History (ed. Dinneen 

 iii. 82, 4). 



157, 22. Rofasaigthea na toirten . . . 06 ■^ peccad, etc. The idea that the 

 ffuitfulness of the earth was affected by the virtues and vices of its rulers is common 

 in Irish literature : see, for instance, the Dindsenchas of Carman, IIG. xv. 314 ; 

 Tripartite Life, ii. 507, note ; and compare Leviticus xxvi. 4. 



158, 17. Clereoh lasa marbtar, etc. This sentence is repeated in § 84. 



158, 28. Mac 'Oige : f746 (FM) or 752 (AU) : see a curious note on him in 

 Mart. Oeng., p. 256, where he is called abbot of Less mor Mochutu, i.e. Lismore in 

 "Waterford. 



158, 30. cia bald ha deck. At 154, 25 and elsewhere ball is used in the sense of 

 ' a member ' of the Church : here it seems to mean rather ' constituent ' or ' attribute ' 

 of the religious character. 



159, 1. degserc is merely a mis writing of desere ; and derscaigtech is a corruption 

 of degsercach = desercach (Plummer). The paraphrase has deirceach. 



159, 9. Rochaehti, etc. Cf. LBr. 11«35 {Guldees 92, 14) Fer didiu nacachta 

 cu mor, " A man who disciplines himself severely." 



159, 15. focerd a chubus so7n ar toniailt torith. For the idiom cp. Eriu ii. 92 foc7ieird 

 mo menma airi, LTJ. 130« \4focheird a memnain airi, and Wb. 11 J21 arna rala for cubus 

 airi. These instances show that in the passage last quoted for is not, as Stokes and 

 Strachan suggest, the preposition, but the possessive pronoun. 



arna tta i.e. arna tae'pv. subj. of -tuit with gemination after ama. 



159, 37. ceil CO is not found in the Glosses (Strachan, Stories from Tditi, 15, note). 



160, 5. fort chubus : cf. LBr 12«37 {Culdees 96, 17) fer graid gaibes eclais for a 

 chubas. 



160, 9. dana eoibsenithersu : the suggested emendation assumes the existence of a 

 deponent coibsenigim. But the whole sentence is very awkward, with the transition 

 from the third person to the second. 



160, 14. He pereas : if the confessor neglects his duties, he becomes liable for the 

 sins of his penitents : cf. LBr. 10 i 8 [Culdees 89, 17) dosteit a chin fair. 



160, 15. Nicon gus, if sound, seems to be used like nicon mor brig, 152, 6. In 

 LBr. 10J45 {Guldees 90, 33) it is laid down that a younger man may receive con- 

 fessions from an elder. 



161, 1. Bithbes: the MS. has bithb~ . see note on 157, 13. 

 161, 5. Tri troisccthe : cf. 155, 31. 



161, 8. Arre troiscthe, etc.: cf. LBr. 11«42 {C'uldees 92, 23, where the last 

 clause should read " this serves in place of a fast "). 



161, 14. This Colccu is probably Colcu lia Duiuechda, f789, author of the Sciiap 



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