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stand like living men with their limbs all shriveled but 

 their hair and nails unmarred. They never decay and 

 birds never light on them. And every one who is living 

 is able to recognize his father or grandfather and all the 

 successive ancestors from whom he has descended. 



There is still another quite extensive lake that is 

 called Logri.* In that lake is an islet inhabited by men 

 who live a celibate life and may be called, as one likes, 

 either monks or hermits; they live there in such num- 

 bers that they fill the island, though at times they are 

 fewer. It is said concerning this isle that it is healthful 

 and quite free from diseases, so that people grow aged 

 more slowly there than elsewhere in the land. But when 

 one does grow very old and sickly and can see the end 

 of the days allotted by the Lord, he has to be carried to 

 some place on the mainland to die; for no one can die of 

 disease on the island. One may sicken and suffer there, 

 but his spirit cannot depart from the body before he has 

 been removed from the island. 



There is another large lake which the natives call Log- 

 herne.f In this lake there is a great abundance of fish of 

 the sort that we call salmon; and the fish is sent into all 

 the country about in such quantities that all have plenty 

 for table use. In this lake there are also many islands, 

 one of which is called Kertinagh by the natives. This 



* Giraldus refers briefly to this legend. Opera, V, 81. The editor of Giraldus' 

 writings adds in a note (ibid.): " the isle of the living was three miles from 

 Roscrea, parish of Cobally, in a lake called Loch Cre, now dried up." Roscrea 

 is near the north edge of Munster not far from the Slieve Bloom mountains. 

 See also the Irish Nennius, 217. Meyer identifies Logri with Loch Ree in west 

 central Ireland. riu, IV, 7. 



t Probably Lough Erne, though Loch Uair, now Lough Owel, in Westmeath 

 has also been suggested. 



