130 Froceedinys of the Royal Irixh Acadeiit;/. 



killed him. In pimisliment-, seven times as many lumps as were on Cain 

 grew on Lamecb, who died from the poison of these some time after. There 

 is a parallel to some of this in Eastern lore. According to Beresckith Habba, 

 (quot. Fabricins i, p. 122) Lameeli killed him with an aiTow or a stone. 

 This is expanded in Malan {Conflict, p. 122). Cain eomes into the field, and 

 the cattle fly before him. T.amech shoots him in the side with an aiTOw, 

 and then stiibes him in the face with a stone from his sling. According to 

 the Book of the Bolls, p. 20, Lamech threw a stone into a thicket, and liit 

 Cain between the eyes. The ti-ansference of the lamps reminds us of 

 Crofton Croker's story and its Japanese parallel (J. E. S. A.T., vol xxxviii, 

 p. 280). 



Canto xn. — live dies nine months later. — This is based on the statement 

 concerning the time of her creation in Canto vi. A passage in Cod. Pal. Vat., 

 p. 25, says that she lived ten yeai-s after him. As usual, traditions difler: 

 e.g., A and Y have six days. Mu-khoud's Banxiit-us-Safa (ed., Eehatsek), 

 p. 65, has one or seven yeare, etc. 



Herb called omamentum. — This word represents the odoranve^vta {odora- 

 mentum in one group of MSS.), the " spices " which, in V, Seth brings back 

 from Paradise. But in this passage in Canto xii S is following A, not V, 

 which last does not contain the account of the angels burning incense after 

 Adam's death. So it may be that the writer of S had before him a Latin 

 translation of A, in which the \i(iarov of the original was rendered 

 od.oramentiim. At any i-ate, the document on which S is based seems to have 

 been con-upt or illegible here. 



Indatinum ciriasu. — The second word is apparently the ablative ease of 

 " Acherusius " (or the dative case of 'A\£/3ou(7<oc, if a Greek text was 

 used 1). Is the first word a corruption for " in lacu " ! 



Ficcoiiicia. — I cannot find this name in any list of Seven Heavens, Irish 

 or uon- Irish, which I have consulted. 



Adam buried at Hebron, head uadud to Jerv.mhm, etc. — This must be 

 explained as a blending of three distinct sets of legends. According to 

 Jewish tradition, Adam was bmied in the cave of Machpelah at Hebron. 

 Some held that Eve was also interred with him, hence Hebron was also 

 called Kirjath-arba, "the city of four pairs," because four patriarchs and their 

 wives were there buried (Hei-shon, Tabnudic Comm. on Gen., p. 64; 

 Bartoloccius i, p. 64; Pirhe B. Elkur, j.. 148; Heidegger, p. 160). The 

 burial at Hebron is also found in Western writings, cf. Hon. Augustodu- 

 nensiSjCol. 1117; Cursor Mv.ndi, 1. 1416 : LyfofAdarn and. Ere (Horstmann 

 Samml. Allcnyl. Leg., p. 226). According to Christian tradition, he was 

 buried in Jenxsalem, on Golgotha, which derived its name from the belief 



