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St. Moedoc, vulgarly called St. Mogue. 



The simple form of tliis name is Qet)h' or Qot)!!, whicli signifies 

 "fire,"^ and, when borrowed into other languages, becomes Aeda,^ Al- 

 dus,^ Aiduus,^ ^deus,^ JEdus,^ Hugh.^ With the diminutive termina- 

 tion an, it becomes Qet)han,^ modified into Aedan,^^ Aedanus,^^ 

 AidanuSy^^ JSdanus,^^ Aidan}^ The same root, when mo, ''my," is pre- 

 fixed, and the syllable oc or 05, denoting " little" or " dear," is suf- 

 fixed,'^ assumes the form TDo-aebh-os, which is contracted into 

 Tnoet)OC,'*^ and, according to the ordinary changes, becomes Tnaet)OC,''' 

 TTlaeDocc,'^ Tnaot)ho5;*^ in Latin Modocus,'^^ Maidocusf^ and in English 



^ Felire of Aengus, Jan. 31. Martyrology of Tamhlact, Jan. 31. 



2 Aodh vel Oedh, quod ignem denotat," Colgan, Trias Thaum., p. 176 a n. 72. 



3 " In Hibernia natale Sancti Aedae." Calendar of Drummond Missal^ Jan. 31. 



4 Title of Life by John of Tinmuth, in Capgrave's Legenda Aurea, which says, 

 " Sanctus iste in vita S. David Aidanus vocatuv, in vita vero sua Aidus dicitur, et apud 

 Meneviam in ecclesia S. David appellatur Moedok quod est Hibernicum," fol. 4 ba. So 

 also the Cotton MS. Tiber. E. i. (Brit. Mus.), Tanner MS. 15 (Bodleian Libr.). 



5 Cotton MS. Vesp. A. 14, printed in Eees's Lives of the Cambro-British Saints, 

 pp. 233-250. See T. DufFus Hardy's Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts, &c., vol. i., 

 p. 188. 



6 Fleming, Collectanea, p. 431 a. 



7 Vita S. Edi, MS. Trin. Coll. Dabl., E. 3, 11, fol. 110, hh. 



8 So the name Aedh is generally rendered by Duald Mac Firbis and Connell Ma- 

 geoghan in their respective translations of the Annals of Ulster and of Clonmacnois. 



9 Borumha Laighen. 



Aedan Foeddog is the Welsh name for this saint. Rees, Essay on the Welsh 

 Saints, p. 227. The founder of Lindisfarne is called Aedan by Bede, Hist. Ec. iii., 5. 



11 " iEdanus qui vulgo appellatur Moedoc," Vit. in Cod. Kilkenn. apud Colgan, Actt. 

 SS., p. 208 a. " Aedanus alias Moedocus," Cod. Salmant., fol. 133. "Aedanus scili- 

 cet Moedoc," Vit. S. Molassii ap. Colgan, Actt. SS. p. 222 a. "Maidoc qui et Aeda- 

 nus," Vit. S. Moluse, cap. 40, ap. Fleming, Collectan,, p. 376 a. "^danus episcopus," 

 MS. ap. Usslier, Works, vol. vi., p. 479. 



12 Vita S. Findani, cap. 10, ap. Goldast. Rer. Alemann., p. 222. "Maidoc qui et 

 Aidanus ab infantia." "S. Aidanus monasterio quod Hibernensi lingua Guernin 

 [Ferna] vocatur." Ricemarch Vit. S. David, ap. Rees, Lives of Cambro-Brit. SS., pp. 

 130, 133. Bede sometimes writes the name of ^dan of Lindisfarne Aidanus. Hist. 

 Ec. iii., 14, 25, 26. 



13 Vita S. Edani, Cod. Marsh, fol. 51 h. Obits of Christ Church, p. xlvii. Harris' 

 Ware's Works, i. p. 436. 



14 The form used by Protestants inLeinster. See O'Donovan, Irish Topogr. Poems, 

 Introd. p. 67 ; Four Masters, vol. i., p. 247, note p. 



15 A very satisfactory explanation of the changes in Irish proper names by these ad- 

 ditions is given by Colgan in his Acta Sanctor., pp. 71 a n. 2, 216 a n. 5, and Trias 

 Thaum., pp. 175 6 n. 54, 188 a n. 122. 



iG Passim in Vit. ap. Colgan, Actt. SS., p. 208-215. Uloeboc .1. Qeb .1. ITIoaebOC, 

 " Moedoc i. e. Aed i. e. Moaedoc," Schol. in Felire, Jan. 31. Annal. Buell. 600. 



17 JLngus de Matrib. SS. Hib. ; Naeimhsenchas ; Tighernach, an. 625. 



18 ITlaebocc, pepna eppcop epi&e. Qo& a ceb amm, ' Maedocc, he was 

 bishop of Ferna. Aedh Avas his first name.' Marianus Gorman, Jan. 31. 



19 Annals of the Four Mast. an. 624. Martyrology of Donegal, Jan. 31, p. 32. 



20 Breviarium Aberdonense, Calendar. Prid. Kl. Feb. ; Propr. Sanctor., Pars 

 Hyemal., fol. 45 ba. Registrum Episcopat. Aberdonen., vol. ii., p. 3. Martyrology of 

 Aberdeen ap. Proceedings of the Soc. Antiq. of Scotland, vol. ii., p. 261. 



21 Giraldus Cambrensis, Topogr. Hib. ii., 47 (Ed. Camden, p. 732). Vita S. 

 Senani ap. Colgan, Actt. SS., p. 532 h. 



