Seymour — The Signs of Doomsday in-the Saltair na Rann. 163 



Third day. — Heaven will be opened from the East to the West. Sinners 

 will fly, and will ask the hills and nionutains to fall on them and hide 

 them. Then Christ and the hosts of angels come. 



One of these Priscillianist fragments was certainly known in Ireland, as it 

 seems to have furnished the original from which were taken the descriptions 

 of the Seven Heavens so frequently found in Irish literature.^ It is also 

 possible that this three-sign list was known to the writer of S, and may have 

 suggested to him the drying up of the streams in his seventh day, as well as 

 the shower of hail, which last item he introduces no less than four times. 



' This has been dealt with by me in an article in Zeitschr. fiir Celt. Phil., xiv, 18-30. 



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