174 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Crdbaid, copies of vrhich. exist in Brassels, 5100-4 fol. 12, and 2324-40 lol. 69 

 (Plummer). Eogan may be Eogan mac Colmain, f 769 (FM.), or Eogan of Lismore, 

 t771 (FM.). 



161, 16. a tecMa do denam : of. antaiin mil's a cn'dhe ma tecMa ZCP. iii. 451, 14, 

 and ni cumaing foruacrae Jirhinde inna teclita ZCP. iii. 450, 24 ; cf. Thes. Pal.-Hib. i. 

 582, note d. 



162, 1. Biadd prantigi: cf. 131, 3 and LBr. 931 {Culdees, 84, 1). aonach is 

 corrupt : some -svord meaning ' verse ' or the like is required. 



162, 8. ind soscele . . . frisa tocalar : cf. 158, 22 tdchah sosce'h'. 



162, 13. deorad. In the La-ws the term deorad Be apparently signifies a person 

 who has renounced his place in the tribal organization in order to dedicate himself to 

 the service of God, and has thereby forfeited the claim which his tribal connexions 

 might have given him to the succession to an abbacy (Laws iii, 74). Skene (Celtic 

 Scotland, ii, 70) regards the term as simply equivalent to ' anchorite.' In the 

 present instance dearad means perhaps simply a monk from another n;onastery. 



162, 25. ataratm : ilr. Plummer would read a taraind (taimdim) ' when the fire 

 struck down.' 



163, 6. Eochu ua Tuathail, anchorite, bishop and abbot of Lngmad (Louth) 

 t820 (Fir.). 



163, 8. If the archetype had cum .x.flis, this would easily be corrupted to cum .x- 

 sits, and hence the reading of our MS. 



164, 17. [tiQ do chdch son: cf. LL. 74*34 7ii do clxacli la Meidb in lind dailter for 

 Fer mBaeth. The meaning here may be that it is not good for everyone to hurry 

 over meals. 



164, 22. Treide nadcon airiti, etc. : cf. LBr. 71 marg. inf. a tri on-airecur tol de, etc. : 

 this suggests the emendation offered. Cf. also LBr. 225 marg. inf. Fuil tri ni Aonach 

 huidech mac Be b'li. We have to do with a triad of things which fail to keep up to 

 their first promise. The third seems to be cohair iar n-assu ' help that comes too late ' : 

 cf. Tain Bo Ciialnge (ed. "Windisch) 3942 giarh i in cliohair iar n-assu. The rest of 

 the last sentence is then explanatory, and nocohrafad is a gloss on foreissed (from 

 foriuth). Arrange accordingly: accus cobair iarnasa,foretised{iiocobrafad) ma dobertlie 

 inruth, 7 doberar indruth nod cobradar. 



