wit, Ernaine.
When Colum Cille, however, had made the circuit of all Eriu; and when he
had sown faith and religion; when numerous multitudes had been baptized
by him; when he had founded churches and establishments, and had left in
them seniors,[1060] and reliquaries, and relics of martyrs, the
determination that he had determined from the beginning of his life came
into[1061] his mind—viz., to go in pilgrimage. He then meditated
going,[1062] across the sea, to preach the word of God to the men of
Alba, and to the Britons, and to the Saxons. He went, therefore, on a
voyage.
His age was 42 when he went. He was 34 [years] in Alba. His entire age
was 77. And the number that went with him,[1063] moreover, was 20
bishops, 40 priests, 30 deacons, and 50 students, ut dixit:—
His company was forty priests,
Twenty bishops of noble worth;
For the psalm-singing, without dispute,
Thirty deacons, fifty youths.[1064]
He went afterwards, in good spirits,[1065] until he reached the place
the name of which to-day is Hii-Coluim-Cille. On Quinguagesima night,
moreover, he arrived.
Two bishops that were in the place[1066] came to receive his
submission[1067] from him. But God manifested to Colum Cille that they
were not in truth bishops; wherefore it was that they left the island to
him,[1068] when he exposed[1069] their real history and career.
Colum Cille then said to his people, ‘It is good for us that our roots
should go under the ground here.’ And he said to them, ‘It is permitted
to you, that some one of you may go under the clay of this island, to
consecrate it.’
Odran rose up obediently,[1070] and what he said was, ‘If you would
accept me,’ said he, ‘I am ready for that.’
‘O Odran,’ said Colum Cille, ‘thou shalt have the reward therefore,
viz., his prayer shall not be granted to any one at my grave,[1071]
unless it is from thee[1072] he asks it first.’ Odran went then to
heaven.
He (Colum Cille) afterward founded the church of Hii. He had thrice
fifty persons in it[1073] for meditation,[1074] under monastic
rule,[1075] and sixty for manual labour, as the poet said[1076]:—
Illustrious the soldiery[1077] that was in Hii,
Thrice fifty in monastic rule;
With their _Curachs_, along the sea,
For rowing were threescore men.
When Colum Cille founded Hii, he went on his circuit of instruction
among the men of Alba, and the Britons and Saxons, until he brought them
to faith and religion, after he had wrought many miracles, and had
awakened the dead from death.
There was a certain man in the country, moreover, to whom Colum Cille
preached until he believed, with all his people, in the Lord. This thing
filled the demon with envy;[1078] and he afflicted[1079] the son of that
man with a heavy illness, so that he died thereof. The Gentiles were
afterwards reproving Christ and Colum Cille, until he (C. C.) made
earnest prayer to God, and awakened the dead boy from death.
As Colum Cille was on a certain day preaching to the multitudes, a
certain man went from them across the river that was near them, in order
that he might not be listening to the Word of God. The serpent seized
him in the water, and killed him immediately. His body was brought into
the presence of Colum Cille, who made a cross with his _bachall_ over
his (the dead man’s) breast; and he arose forthwith.
A severe illness attacked[1080] his attendant, whose name was Diarmait,
so that he died; but he (C. C.) prayed for him,[1081] and he was
awakened from death. And not only this, but he (C. C.) entreated for him
(Diarmait) an existence of seven years after himself.
One time when Cainnech came away from him, from Hii, he forgot his
_bachall_ in the east.[1082] When he arrived hither,[1083] he found his
_bachall_ before him here, and Colum Cille’s shirt along with it, viz.,
this was Cainnech’s share of his (C. C.’s) _rechull_;[1084] and the
reason why he (C. C.) did this was because he knew that he was nigh unto
his death.
A great blushing affected him[1085] one time in Hii. The cause of the
blushing was demanded of him. ‘God’s fire from heaven,’ said he, ‘that
has now come upon three cities in Italy, and has killed three thousand
men, besides women, and boys, and girls.’
Another time he heard a shout in the port[1086] of Hii, whereupon he
said:—
A rustic[1087] is in the port,
With his _bachall_ in his hand,
Who’ll visit my hornlet,
And spill my ink.
He will then bend down,[1088]
To visit my pax,
And he’ll touch my hornlet,
And will leave it empty.
Another time Baithin left Colum Cille cooking a beef for the labourers.
There was an ex-warrior[1089] of the men of Eriu with them, viz.,
Maeluma, son of Baetan. Colum Cille asked him what was the extent of his
appetite[1090] when he was a young warrior. Maeluma said, ‘I would
consume a fat beef for my fill[1091] when I was a young warrior.’ Colum
Cille commanded him that he should eat his fill. Maeluma did so for him,
and ate the whole beef. Baithin came afterwards and asked if the food
was ready. Colum Cille commanded Maeluma to collect all the bones of the
beef in one place, and it was done so. Colum Cille then blessed the
bones; and their own flesh was round them after that, and was taken to
the workmen.
[When[1092] Colum Cille had been thirty years in Alba, great anxiety
seized the men of Eriu to see him, and speak with him, before he
died;[1093] and messengers went[1094] from them to meet him, that he
might come to speak with them to the great convention of Druim-Ceta,
that he might bless them in that place, men, boys, women, and that he
might heal their diseases and pestilences. Or it is for three reasons
Colum Cille came from the east[1095]—viz., to retain the poets in Eriu
(for their exactions were great, to wit, thirty was the full company
with an _ollamh_,[1096] and fifteen with an _anradh_[1097]); and to make
peace between the men of Eriu and the men of Alba regarding the
Dal-Riada (for there was[1098] a battle-meeting between the men of Eriu
and Alba concerning them,[1099] if Colum Cille had not come from the
east to pacify them[1100]); and to release Scannlan, son of
Cennfaeladh[1101]—the son of the king of Ossory—whose father, moreover,
had given him in hostageship into the hands of Aedh,[1102] son of
Ainmire. And Colum Cille was surety to him that he would be released at
the end of a year; and he was not released, and no hostage was accepted
in his stead. And a wicker building[1103] was constructed round him,
without any passage out of it save a way through which a modicum of salt
food, and a small allowance[1104] of ale, used to be given to him. And
fifty warriors were wont to be around the building[1103] outside,
guarding him. And there were nine chains upon him in the building.[1103]
And when he would see any one going past what he would say is, ‘A
drink,’ says he.
And this thing was reported to Colum Cille, to Hii, and he wept greatly
at what he had heard; and this it was that brought him quickly from the
east.
It is how Colum Cille, moreover, came from the east, and a blackened
cloth over his eyes, and his collar[1105] down over that, and the
hood[1106] of the cape down over that again, in order that he might not
see the men of Eriu, nor its women; because he prophesied it before,
when he went to Alba at first, and he uttered the _rann_—
There is a grey eye
That views Eriu backwards.
It will not see henceforth[1107]
The men of Eriu, or its women.
And it was to certify this the poet[1108] said—
Though mild Colum did come
From the east in a boat,[1109] across the sea,
He saw naught in noble Eriu,
After coming into the great convention.
It was reported to Aedh, son of Ainmire, moreover, that Colum Cille had
come to the convention, and he was greatly vexed at what he heard, and
he said that whoever he might be from whom he (C. C.) would obtain
respect in the assembly, it would be avenged[1110] on him.
They afterwards saw Colum Cille going towards the convention; and the
assembly[1111] that was nearest to him was the assembly[1111] of Conall,
son of Aedh, son of Ainmire; and he was a worthy son of Aedh.
As Conall saw them,[1112] therefore, he incited the rabble of the
assembly[1111] against them, so that three score men[1113] of them were
captured and wounded.[1114] Colum Cille inquired, ‘Who is he by whom
this band has been launched at us?’ And it was told to him that it was
by Conall. And Colum Cille cursed Conall, until thrice nine bells[1115]
were rung against him,[1116] when some man said, ‘Conall gets bells
(_cloga_),’ and it is from this that he is called ‘Conall
Clogach.’[1117] And the cleric deprived him of king-ship,[1118] and of
his reason and intellect in the space of time that he would be
prostrating his body.
Colum Cille went afterwards to the assembly[1111] of Domhnall, son of
Aedh, son of Ainmire. And Domhnall immediately rose up before him, and
bade him welcome,[1119] and kissed his cheek, and put him in his own
place. And the cleric left him many blessings,[1120] viz., that he
should be fifty[1121] years in the sovereignty of Eria, and be
battle-victorious during that time; and that every word he would say
would be fulfilled by him; that he would be one year and a half in the
illness of which he would die, and would receive the body of Christ
every Sunday during that time.
It was told to the queen[1122] that her son[1123] was cursed, and the
kingship [promised] to Domhnall. The queen said to her handmaid, ‘Go to
Aedh, and say to him that if that crane-cleric[1124] finds respect with
him, I shall not be peaceable towards him.’
This thing was reported to Colum Cille, and he granted[1125] to the
queen and to her handmaid that they should be two cranes[1126] in
Druim-Ceta,[1127] from that day to the day of judgment, ut poeta dixit:—
The queen’s anger grew therefrom—
From Domhnall being in the kingship—
The promise of kingship given to Domhnall,
And her own son without land.
‘What crane-work[1128] is that thou dost?’
Said the queen, most wickedly.
‘I’ll not be in peace with Aedh, plainly,
For showing thee respect, O Cleric.’
‘Thou hast leave to be a crane,’
Said the cleric furiously;
‘As just punishment to thy handmaid,
She’ll be a crane along with thee.’
Aedh’s wife and her waiting-maid,
Were turned into herons.[1129]
They live still,[1130] and make complaint,
The two old herons of Druim-Ceta.
And Colum Cille then said to Domhnall that they should both go to
converse with Aedh, son of Ainmire. And Domhnall was much afraid to
converse with the king. But Colum Cille said, ‘Be not much afraid, for
the Holy Spirit shall be protecting thee against him.’ They went
together to speak to the king.
Grievous fear seized the king afterwards [on seeing the cleric[1131]],
because of the great miracle he had previously wrought.
The clerics came subsequently into the assembly. The king rose and bade
them welcome.
‘Our demand must be granted,’ [said Colum Cille[1132]].
‘You shall get it truly,’ said the king.
‘The poets must be retained,’ said Colum Cille.
‘It shall not be done,’ said the king, ‘for their evils against us are
great.’
‘Say not so,’ observed the cleric, ‘for the praises they will sing[1133]
for thee shall be enduring, as the praises the poets sung for him are
enduring for Cormac,[1134] grandson of Conn. And the treasures that were
given for them were transitory, while the praises live after them.’
And the cleric composed this little ‘rhetoric,’[1135] viz.—
‘Cormac well broke battles,’ etc.
‘It is not I who will expel them,’ said Aedh. The poets were retained
through this.
‘Release Scannlan,’[1136] said Colum Cille.
‘I shall not do so,’ answered the king, ‘until he dies in the hut in
which he is.’
‘We will not pursue the subject further,’ said Colum Cille; ‘but if it
be pleasing to God, may it be he that shall take off my shoes[1137]
to-night, at matins, in whatsoever place I may be.’
Colum Cille went afterwards from the assembly, until he came to the
Dubh-regles[1138] at Derry. It was not long after Colum Cille’s
departure until a thunderbolt came into the convention, and they all
turned their faces to the ground. Afterwards there came a bright cloud
to Scannlan, to the place in which he was, and a voice in the cloud said
to him, ‘Rise, O Scannlan, and leave thy chains and thy prison, and come
forth, and put thy hand in mine.’
Scannlan came out, and the angel in front of him. The guards heard the
noise of something passing by them; and what the guards said was, ‘Who
is this going past us?’ ‘Scannlan,’ said the angel. ‘If it was he, you
would not say so,’ answered they. They (Scannlan and his deliverer)
went[1139] afterwards to Derry.
The time the Cleric (C. C.) about matins, was going westwards[1140]
through the chancel-screen, it was Scannlan that assisted to take off
his shoes. And what Colum Cille said is, ‘Who is this?’
‘Scannlan,’ answered he.
‘Hast any news?’ asked Colum Cille.
‘A drink,’ said Scannlan.
‘Hast brought us a blessing?’ asked Colum Cille.
‘A drink,’ said Scannlan.
‘Say how camest thou?’ said Colum Cille.
‘A drink,’ said Scannlan.
‘Delay in answering attend thy successors.’[1141] said Colum Cille.
‘Speak not so,’ said Scannlan. ‘Thou shalt always have their rents, and
their tributes and customs.’
‘May bishops and kings be of thy race for ever,’ said Colum Cille. ‘Here
is one drink for thee,’ said he, ‘to wit, a vessel of ale, containing
enough for three.’[1142]
Scannlan then lifted the vessel between his two hands, and drank the
contents in one drink. And he afterwards ate his meal, to wit, seven
joints of old bacon, and ten wheaten cakes; after which he lay down, and
was three days and three nights in one sleep. He then arose, and was
conducted to Ossory, and the great _bachall_[1143] was sent with him.
The day he arrived was the day his father, the king of Ossory,
died[1144] through grief for him. And he subsequently assumed the
kingship of Ossory, and granted a tribute from the Ossorians, every
seventh year from that day, to Colum Cille.
And it is in this wise Scannlan was released.
The third cause[1145] was regarding the Dalriada. Colman, son of
Comgellan, it was that delivered the decision, in place of[1146] Colum
Cille, as Colum Cille himself prophesied when he came to the house of
Comgellan, and found within only two young boys[1147] who were on the
border of the fireplace. And the second boy looked over Colum Cille’s
right shoulder; and it appeared to Colum Cille that the grace of the
Holy Spirit was upon him. And Colum Cille afterwards called him, and
took him in his arms,[1148] and composed a _rann_ for him:—
O honesty of the hound! O pure soul!
Here’s a kiss for thee; deal thou a kiss to me.
Colum Cille blessed him after that, and left him the gift of wisdom, and
told him that it was he who would give judgment between the men of Eriu
and the men of Alba concerning the Dalriada. And this was verified. The
judgment, moreover, is this, viz., their expedition, and their hosting,
with the men of Eriu (for it is ‘hosting with territories’ always), and
their rent[1149] and their tribute with the men of Alba.
Dallan afterwards came to converse with Colum Cille, when it was that he
recited the preface.[1150] And Colum Cille said that he (Dallan) should
not make it[1151] but at the time of his (Colum Cille’s) death; and that
it was for one dead it was fitting. Colum Cille promised to Dallan the
richness and products of the earth for this eulogy; and Dallan would not
accept them, but Heaven for himself and for every one who would recite
it, and would understand it between sense and sound.
‘How shall thy death be known, and thou in pilgrimage, and I in Eriu?’
asked Dallan. Colum Cille therefore gave him three signs as to the time
he should make the eulogy. The first sign was, that it was the rider of
a speckled steed who would announce the death of Colum Cille; and that
the first word he would utter should be the beginning of the eulogy. And
it was verified in ripe time, and was the wonderment of the
island.[1152]]
One day in the month of May Colum Cille went to inquire after the
ploughmen in the north of the island. He was consoling[1153] them and
instructing them.
‘Good, then,’ said he; ‘about the Easter that went past in the month of
April—it was then I should have liked to go to Heaven; but I would not
wish grief or sadness to you after your labour; and therefore it is that
I remained with you, protecting you, from Easter to Whitsuntide.’
When the monks heard these words they were very sad.
He turned his face westwards after that, and blessed the island, with
its inhabitants, and he banished toads[1154] and snakes out of it.
When he had blessed the island, then he came subsequently to his
_recles_; and it was not long after that until the end of the Sabbath
and the beginning of Sunday arrived. And when he then raised up his
eyes, a great blushing came upon his countenance and face; and those
brethren[1155] saw indeed the angel of God, who remained over his head
there.
He went afterwards to bless the _Sabhall_,[1156] and said to its
attendant,[1157] viz., Diarmait, that he would go to Heaven on Sunday
night.
The venerable senior, viz., Colum Cille, sat down afterwards on the
margin of the road, for fatigue came upon him, though his journey was
short. (His age at that time was 77 years.) Then came to him the
_garran_[1158] that was wont to be with the monks in the island, and
wept in the cleric’s bosom until he wet his clothes. The
attendant,[1157] _i.e._ Diarmait, essayed to drive the garran away from
him. ‘Let him alone, O’Diarmait,’ said Colum Cille, ‘until he has done
enough of tears and sadness lamenting me.’
[Colum[1159] Cille, moreover, used to go to Heaven every Thursday whilst
he was alive, when he wished.]
But it is excessive to reckon and relate the number of prodigies and
miracles which God wrought in the lands for Colum Cille; because there
is no one that could reckon them entirely unless his own angel, or the
angel of Heaven’s God, should come to relate them. So that it is
sufficient for us to give this much of them, by way of example.
[A certain[1160] bad, furious man wounded a monk of Colum Cille’s
people; but he only cut the monk’s girdle, although the spear was sharp.
Colum Cille cursed the Saxon, and he died immediately. Bishop [Aedan?]
and Colman of Inish-bofinne[1161] were they whom Colum Cille left with
the Saxons, preaching the word of God to them.
Colum Cille went afterwards upon a time to the king of the Picts, to
Brudi, son of Maelchu, and the door of the fort was closed against him.
But the iron locks of the place opened instantly through the prayers of
Colum Cille. The son of the king, to wit, Maelchu, and his druid came
after that, to contend with Colum Cille through paganism;[1162] and the
king’s son and the druid along with him died forthwith through Colum
Cille’s word. The names[1163] of God and Colum Cille were magnified
thereby.]
There was not born of the Gaidhel, however, a being more illustrious, or
more wise, or of better family, than Colum Cille. There came not of them
any person who was more modest, more humble, or more lowly.
Great indeed was the humility of Colum Cille, for it was he himself that
used to take their shoes off his monks, and that used to wash their feet
for them. ’Tis he that used often to take his share of corn on his back
to the mill, and that used to grind it and bring it home with him. ’Tis
he that would not have[1164] linen or wool to his skin, that would not
sleep until his side came in contact with the bare earth. Under his head
there used not to be but a pillar-stone for a pillow, and he would even
sleep only whilst his _protégé_[1165] Diarmait would be reciting three
chapters of the ‘Beati.’ He would get up [immediately[1166]] after that,
and would utter[1167] cries and lamentations, like unto a fond mother
lamenting her only son. He would afterwards recite the ‘three
fifties,’[1168] until morning, in the sand of the sea-shore, ut dixit:—
The three fifties, great the vigil;
In the night great was the pain;
In the sea,[1169] by the side of Alba,
Before the sun would arise.
[When[1170] he would lie in the sand, moreover, and his garments round
him, the impression of his ribs through them was plain, ut poeta
dixit]:—
’Tis plain he’d lie down, greatest of sufferings,
In the sand; the distress was great.
The impression of his ribs, through his clothing,
Was plain ’till the wind would blow it away.[1171]
This was his night-work. In the day following, however, he would
frequent the canonical hours, and would offer the Body of Christ and His
Blood; would preach the Gospel; would baptize, bless, and anoint; would
cure lepers, and the blind and lame, and people suffering from every
disease. He used to resuscitate the dead.
[And[1172] he used not drink ale, and used not eat meat, and used not
eat savoury things,[1173] as Dallan Forguill said in the _Amra_:—
He drank not ale; he loved not satiety;
He avoided flesh.
And he used to make two hundred genuflexions every day, ut Dallan
dixit:—
He (kept) vigil[1174] whilst he was (in life).
And he had not a love of riches, as Dallan said:—
His sufficiency was little.
For _saith_ (sufficiency) is the name for _innmus_ (riches), ut poeta
dixit:—
On Wednesday he went off, against orders,
In the track of the fierce-avenging demon;
On Wednesday greed for _sufficiency_ seized him,[1175]
The Wednesday noble Christ was betrayed.
The three places, moreover, in which is the full habitation of Colum
Cille are Hi, and Down, and Derry, ut Berchan dixit:—
His grace in Hii, without stain,
And his soul in Derry;
And his body under the flag-stone,
Under which are Brigid and Patrick.
And it was to illustrate this the poet said:—
Hii, with the multitude of its relics,
Of which Colum was a fair disciple.[1176]
He went away from it at last,
So that Down is his blessed church.[1177]
A hundred churches, ‘which the wave frequents,’[1178] is the number of
churches he has on the margin of the sea. Or, perhaps, ‘one hundred
churches, with the fulness[1179] of a wave.’ There was a mass chalice in
every church, as the poet explains[1180]:—
The chess-board of Crimthann Nia-nair—
A little boy could take it[1181] in his hand;
The half of its party[1182] was of yellow gold,
And its other half of findruine.[1183]
One man alone of its party[1182]
Would purchase six _cumhals_.[1184]]
When it came then to the last hours for Colum Cille, and when the bell
was rung for matins on the night of Whitsunday, he went before the
others to the church, and made genuflexions and earnest prayers at the
altar. At that time an angelic brightness filled the church about him on
every side, and the venerable patron then resigned his spirit to heaven,
to the joy and gladness of the people of heaven in general. His body,
moreover, is in the earth here, with honour and veneration from God and
men, attended with virtues and miracles every day of them.[1185] And
though great his honour hitherto, it will be greater in the assembly of
judgment, when he will shine like the sun, through the incorruptibility
of his body and soul. ’Tis then, moreover, this great glory and respect
shall be given to him, in the union of the nine orders of heaven which
cannot be surpassed; in the union of the apostles and disciples of Jesus
Christ; in the union of the divinity and humanity of the Son of God; in
the union that is higher than every union; in the union of the noble,
illustrious, holy, almighty Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy
Ghost.
I implore the mercy of Almighty God, through the intercession of St.
Colum Cille. May we all reach that union. May we deserve it. May we
possess it in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.
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Footnote 858:
Inheritance. _Athardu_; lit. ‘patrimony;’ from _athair_, ‘father.’
Footnote 859:
Narrative. _Coibige_ (here translated ‘narrative’) seems = _coimfige_,
‘weaving together,’ from _figim_, ‘I weave.’
Footnote 860:
In imposing. The MSS. have _do erail_, ‘to persuade.’
Footnote 861:
HISTORIA. Istoria, A. L. and L. B.
Footnote 862:
REPROMISSIONIS. Repromisionis, A. L. and L. B.
Footnote 863:
PRECIPITUR. Precipitum, L. B.; preceptum, A. L.
Footnote 864:
Counsel. _Comairle_, omitted from MSS., but the context seems to
require it, and it has therefore been supplied in brackets.
Footnote 865:
The people. _Na dóine._ Om. A. L.
Footnote 866:
The inciting and inflaming. _Gresacht ⁊ adannad_, B. Lismore. A. L.
and L. B. have _angresacht ⁊ anadannad nandoine_ (which literally
means ‘their inciting and inflaming of the people’), an idiom of
frequent occurrence in old Irish.
Footnote 867:
Their temporal goods. The Irish text is _fris na maithib aimserda
imbit_; lit. ‘from the temporal goods in which they are wont to be.’
Footnote 868:
Suffered. The original is _fuaratar_, ‘received.’
Footnote 869:
Would experience. _Fogebed_; lit. ‘would receive.’
Footnote 870:
IMPLEVIT. Impleverit, L. B.
Footnote 871:
EXIIT. Exit, L. B.
Footnote 872:
Haran. Carran, L. B.
Footnote 873:
REPROMISSIONIS. Repromisionis, L. B.
Footnote 874:
Haran. Carran, L. B. The orig. of the clause within brackets is not in
A. L. For _co Carran_ (to Haran), L. has _co rainic_, ‘until he
reached.’
Footnote 875:
Because. _Uair_, A. L. Not in B. L. or L.
Footnote 876:
Abstains. _Etirscarann_, lit. ‘separates.’
Footnote 877:
Nor profit. _No tarbai._ Omitted in A. L.
Footnote 878:
Away from it. _Na h-ecmais_; lit. ‘in its absence.’
Footnote 879:
EXIVIT. Exisit, L. B.
Footnote 880:
EI. Ex, L. B.
Footnote 881:
As if he would abide. The orig. ⁊ _no aithebad_ means literally ‘_and
that_ he would abide.’
Footnote 882:
Exercise. The orig. is _denam_, ‘doing.’
Footnote 883:
Laics and clerics. _Tuatha ⁊ eclaisi_; lit. ‘territories and
churches;’ but in a secondary sense ‘church and state,’ or ‘laics and
clerics.’
Footnote 884:
Through. _Ar_; lit. ‘for.’
Footnote 885:
Good-will. _Cainduthracht_; ‘bona voluntas.’ Compare _ar
cainduthracht_ (gl. propter bonam voluntatem).—Zeuss’ _Gram. Celt._
578.
Footnote 886:
Little or much. _Uathad sochaide._ These words also signify ‘few [or
many];’ but it would seem from the context that they were intended to
refer to the worldly substance abandoned, and are therefore translated
in that sense.
Footnote 887:
PEREGRINI. Perigrini, L. B.
Footnote 888:
Seniors. _Na sruthi._ Comp. _inna sruthe_ (‘veterum’).—Goidilica, 1st
ed. 25; _sruith athair_ (gl. patronus).—Nigra, _Reliq. Celt._, 33.
Footnote 889:
At the occurrence. _In ecmoing_, lit. ‘in the occurrence.’ Comp.
_ecmaing_, ‘it chanced.’—_Leb na hUidre_, 98 b.; _ind aecmaingthech_
(gl. fortuitu).—Zeuss, ed. Ebel, 608.
Footnote 890:
PRESBYTER. Prespiter, L. B.
Footnote 891:
Inis-Gaidel. The Island of the Gaidel; by which the writer evidently
meant Ireland.
Footnote 892:
The person. _In tii_; an emphatic form, very usual in Irish.
Footnote 893:
Son. The original of the clause within brackets is not in L. B. or B.
Lismore.
Footnote 894:
Of the solar month. _Mis greine_; lit. ‘month of the sun.’
Footnote 895:
A few particulars. _Becan cumair_; lit. ‘a brief little.’
Footnote 896:
For ever. _Co sir_, L. B. _Tre biuthu sir_, ‘through life
everlasting,’ A. L. and L.
Footnote 897:
Was he. The orig. is _atacomnaic_, which is explained by _comainm_,
‘appellation,’ in old Irish glossaries, and used in this sense in the
Book of Leinster, fol. 200, a 1.
Footnote 898:
Family. The orig. of this clause is not in A. L.
Footnote 899:
Was offered. _Tarcus._ The text should probably be _taircfid_, ‘would
be offered.’
Footnote 900:
Patron saints. _Sruthi._ See p. 473, note 888.
Footnote 901:
Lugbad. Louth, Co. Louth.
Footnote 902:
At the end. _I cind_; lit. ‘at the head,’ or immediately before.
Footnote 903:
Ut dixit. A. L. has _conad annsin do raid Mochta_, ‘when it was that
Mochta said.’
Footnote 904:
With. _La_ (apud), A. L. and L. B.; _ic._ ‘at,’ _Lismore_.
Footnote 905:
Of the nations. _Nambitho_, A. L., L. B.; _nambidho_, _Lismore_.
Footnote 906:
Saint. _Naem._ Omitted in L. B. and L.
Footnote 907:
The head. _Cenn._ Omitted in A. L. and L. B.
Footnote 908:
_Rann._ _Rann_ properly means a stanza. The text should be _na ranna
sa_ (these verses).
Footnote 909:
Beloved. The orig. of this line and the next are not in L. B.
Footnote 910:
With. _La_; lit. ‘apud,’ but in a secondary sense, ‘in the sight of.’
Footnote 911:
Brigid. The first letter of the name only is given in A. L. and L. B.
The _Book of Lismore_ text has ‘Bec mac De;’ but according to the
Irish Annals generally, Bec mac De did not ‘begin to prophesy’ before
A.D. 545, more than 20 years after Colum Cille’s birth.
Footnote 912:
To observe him. _Rathugad._ In other words, to perceive his coming.
Footnote 913:
Ard-Sratha. Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone; anciently an episcopal see.
Footnote 914:
Buite. Founder of Monasterboice; who died on the night of Colum
Cille’s birth.
Footnote 915:
Measure. _Tórindfess_; _i.e._ ‘that shall mark the limits of.’
Footnote 916:
Manifested. _Ro fiugrad_; lit. ‘was figured.’
Footnote 917:
Innsi-mod. The group of islands in Clew Bay, on the west coast of
Mayo.
Footnote 918:
Caer-nam-brocc. Supposed to be Burghead, on the north-east coast of
Scotland. _Adamnan_, 191, note e.
Footnote 919:
Of the world. _An domain._ Not in L. B. or _Lismore_.
Footnote 920:
Gladness. _⁊ forbailti_, for _⁊ forfailti_. Omitted in A. L.
Footnote 921:
Attendant woman, _ben imtha_. In the account of this vision in the
Mart. Donegal, at June 9, the expression is _ben formaid ⁊ iom
thnuith_, ‘a woman of jealousy and envy.’
Footnote 922:
Eithne. The original of this sentence is not in A. L.
Footnote 923:
It was. The original would also bear to be translated ‘he was.’
Footnote 924:
Patron Saints. _Sruthi._ See p. 473, note 888.
Footnote 925:
Gortan. This name signifies ‘a little field.’ It is now written
‘Gartan,’ and is the name of a townland and parish in the barony of
Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
Footnote 926:
_Corprige._ In Aengus’s Tract on the Mothers of Irish Saints, Eithne
is said to have been of the _Corpraide_ of _Fanad_ (Co. Donegal). See
Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 164, note.
Footnote 927:
Noble. _Olmar_; lit. ‘very great.’
Footnote 928:
Fostered. _Rosail_; lit. ‘nursed him.’
Footnote 929:
Should learn. The literal translation of the Irish is, ‘when the time
of learning came to him’ (Colum Cille).
Footnote 930:
Cleric. Cruithnechan.
Footnote 931:
Observed the heavens. _Ro fég nem_; lit. ‘looked (at) heaven.’
Footnote 932:
What he said was. _Ised atbert._ Not in A. L.
Footnote 933:
Water. The words _fri usci anair_, literally translated, would be
‘against (the) water, from the east;’ water being put for ‘river.’
Footnote 934:
The original of this sentence is not in A. L.
Footnote 935:
Raths of Magh-enaig. Now Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe, Co. Donegal.
Footnote 936:
Cleric. Cruithnechan.
Footnote 937:
Fell. _Tanic_; lit. ‘came.’
Footnote 938:
‘Misericordias.’ The 100th Psalm.
Footnote 939:
In the place. _Do raith_; lit. ‘for the good,’ but idiomatically
signifying ‘in place of,’ or ‘for the sake of.’
Footnote 940:
Names. _Ainm_, ‘name,’ in the original text.
Footnote 941:
And his guardian. _⁊ a aiti_; om. in L. B.
Footnote 942:
On the path. _Forsin conair._ L. reads _don carraic_, ‘from off the
rock.’
Footnote 943:
Fell, and died. L. B. has merely _conepil de_, ‘died thereof.’
Footnote 944:
Thinking. _Andar leis_, ‘it seemed to him,’ L. B., A. L., and L. have
_ar ni fhitir nach ina chotlud bói_; ‘for he knew not that he was not
asleep.’
Footnote 945:
Rehearsing. _Mebrugud_; lit. ‘remembering.’
Footnote 946:
Sound. This stanza, apparently quoted from the _Amra Choluim Cille_, a
very ancient composition, is not in L.
Footnote 947:
Before them. _Ar a cind_; lit. ‘on their head,’ or ‘ahead of them;’
_i.e._ when they arrived at the place.
Footnote 948:
Resuscitate. _Duscad_; lit. ‘to awaken.’
Footnote 949:
Went. The phraseology of this clause in A. L. and L. is (translated),
‘he went to the cleric, to resuscitate him.’
Footnote 950:
Permission. _Cet_, L. B. A. L. and L. have _deonughad_, which means
the same thing.
Footnote 951:
Magh-bile. Movilla, in the Co. Down.
Footnote 952:
Wine. _Finbairgen_; lit. ‘wine-bread,’ A. L. and L. B. L. has _fin ⁊
bairgen_, ‘wine and bread,’ which seems more correct.
Footnote 953:
Master Gemman. Of this man little or nothing is known. The name is
written ‘German’ in many places in the Book of Lismore. But see
Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 274, Notes.
Footnote 954:
Learning. _Ic denam_; lit. ‘doing.’
Footnote 955:
Ruffian. _In duidli._ The word _duidli_ is not found in any Irish
Dictionary or Glossary; and the meaning here assigned to it is only
conjectural. It seems to be the word rendered by ‘persecutor,’ in
Colgan’s Third Life of St. Colum Cille (_Tr. Thaum._, p. 333).
Footnote 956:
Laid. _Ro fuirim_; lit. placed; apparently related to Lat. formo,
formare.
Footnote 957:
Cluain-Eraird. Clonard, Co. Meath.
Footnote 958:
At. In the orig. the word is _in_, which in form and meaning is the
same as the Eng. prepos. ‘in.’ But the sense in which it is used above
is correctly represented by ‘at.’
Footnote 959:
Supper-time. _Feis aidche_; lit. ‘night-feast.’
Footnote 960:
Apostles. Finden’s disciples are meant.
Footnote 961:
Island; _i.e._ Ireland. The orig. of this sentence is not in A. L.
Footnote 962:
Rested over. The orig. has _rogab imon Sinaind_, which would actually
mean ‘took up about the Shannon.’
Footnote 963:
Colum. This sentence is fuller in A. L. than in L. and L. B., which
have merely the clause, ‘with the gold of his nobility and wisdom.’
Footnote 964:
Son of the carpenter. _Mac in t-sair_; om. in A. L. and L. St. Ciaran
of Clonmacnois, on the Shannon, is the person meant.
Footnote 965:
_Glaisnoiden._ Glasnevin, near Dublin.
Footnote 966:
Water. The river at Glasnevin. _Fri usci aniar_, translated above ‘at
the west side of the water,’ literally means ‘towards the water from
the west.’
Footnote 967:
Said Ciaran. _Ar Ciaran._ Not in L. B. or L.
Footnote 968:
Full of. The expression in the orig., literally translated, is ‘what
full each of them would like to have in the church.’
Footnote 969:
Canonical hours. _Na trath._ _Trath_ properly signifies ‘time,’ or
‘season;’ but in ecclesiastical tracts it is used to express the
canonical hours.
Footnote 970:
Chose. _Do rega._ The text in A. L. is _robad maith leam fain ar C.
C._, ‘I should like myself,’ said C. C., etc.
Footnote 971:
Both in. _Etir_; lit. ‘between’ (= Lat. inter).
Footnote 972:
Unknown. _Anaichnid_; _i.e._ ‘unprecedented,’ in a secondary sense.
Footnote 973:
_Buidhe Chonaill._ See Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 182, note a, for an
account of this plague, which was also called _Crom Chonaill_. The
first appearance of the plague occurred in a.d. 550, according to
Tighernach’s Annals and the _Chronicon Scotorum_. Dr. Todd supposed
that it was called _Buidhe Chonaill_, from some eminent person named
Conall, who died of it, but of whose memory no other record now
remains.—(_Obits and Martyrology of Christ Church_, pref. p. lxxv.)
But the old form of the name being _Buidhe Chonnaill_, it is more
likely that it was derived from _Connall_ (glossed ‘stipula’ in the
MS. quoted in Nigra’s _Reliq. Celt._, p. 38); and that the plague was
so called from the hue (_Buide Chonnaill_, ‘straw-yellow’) which its
victims exhibited.
Footnote 974:
Biur. Dr. Reeves states (_Adamnan_, p. 52, note d) that is, the river
in Tyrone, now called the Moyola, which flows into the N.-W. arm of
Lough Neagh.
Footnote 975:
‘_Bir_ against _fochainne_.’ There is apparently a play on words here.
_Fochainne_ is the Irish name of the river now called the Faughan,
which rises somewhat to the N.-W. of the Moyola, and flows into Lough
Foyle. The expression might also signify ‘_Bir_ against “diseases”’
(_fochainne_; lit. ‘_causes_’).
Footnote 976:
Daire. Derry. Anciently _Daire-Calgaig_, ‘Calgach’s oak-wood.’
Footnote 977:
Girdle. These words should be repeated, to complete the line.
Footnote 978:
Hair. _Loa._ The orig. is _niptar simne imm loa_; lit. ‘they were not
rushes round hair;’ _i.e._ the girdle was not soft as rushes round
Mobii’s hair cloak.
Footnote 979:
Settled. _Gais_, A. L. and L. B.; _gabais_, Lismore. _Gabais_ properly
means took, received, occupied.
Footnote 980:
Colum. This paragraph is translated from A. L., the corresponding
original being omitted in L. B. and L.
Footnote 981:
Wood. _Daire._ The orig. name of Derry (or Londonderry) was _daire
Calgaig_, the ‘wood of Calgach,’ or the ‘oak-wood of Calgach.’ Adamnan
Latinises _daire_ by ‘roboretum’ (Reeves’s ed., pp. 19, 160), and the
contemporary glosses quoted by Zeuss (_Gram. Celt. 8_) gives it the
same meaning; in later times the word was used to express any kind of
wood. In the _Book of Fermoy_, for instance, we find _itir daire ocus
maigi ocus atha ocus line_, ‘between _woods_ and plains, and fords and
pools’ (fol. 24, a 1).
Footnote 982:
Uttered. _Conderna_, ‘until he made.’
Footnote 983:
_Dant._ This line is very obscure in A. L.; and the reading here is
unreliable. A translation has not therefore been attempted.
Footnote 984:
Wattles. _Coelach._ Wattles, twigs, or osiers; from _coel_, ‘slender.’
This is curious, as showing the material used in building churches at
the time.
Footnote 985:
_Recles._ Thus in L. B. But A. L. and L. read _eclais_, the church.
Footnote 986:
In the ground. _Isin talam_, L. B. A. L. has _isin inad ar boinged an
fidh_, ‘in the place where the wood was cut.’
Footnote 987:
Tor-inis. Tours, in France. The form of the name in the text,
Tor-inis, would in Irish signify ‘tower-island’ (from _tor_, a tower,
and _inis_, an island); but this form is probably an attempt of the
scribe or translator to represent Turonensis, the Latin for Tours.
Footnote 988:
For. The orig. has _for_ (‘upon’).
Footnote 989:
Rath-Both. Raphoe, Co. Donegal.
Footnote 990:
Visit of instruction. _Cuairt procepta_ (‘circuitus præcepti’). This
corrupt Irish form of the Lat. præceptum (sometimes written
_procecht_) is also used to express ‘preaching.’
Footnote 991:
Tethba. Teffia; the ancient name of a large territory, including part
of the present counties of King’s, Westmeath, and Longford.
Footnote 992:
_Dermach._ Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, King’s County.
Footnote 993:
Colman Mòr. The death of this man is entered in the _Chron. Scotorum_
at A.D. 553.
Footnote 994:
Virtue. The literal translation of the orig. is ‘the luck that was on
the sword.’
Footnote 995:
Cormac Ua Liathain. See Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 166, note a.
Footnote 996:
Aedh Slane (pron. Slaw-ney). King of Ireland, 592-604.
Footnote 997:
Cenandas. Kells, Co. Meath. The oldest written form of the name is
Cennannas (_Leb. na hUidhre_, 58^{_a_}). In the _Book of Leinster_ it
is written _cenn-arus_, ‘head abode;’ from which the succeeding
changes seem to have been to _cenn-lis_ (‘head fort’) and then to
Ken-lis, and finally to Kells.
Footnote 998:
Tarried. _Ro fuirged._ This seems the 3 sg. pass. form of the verb
_fuirech_, to delay (_cid arid fuirig_, gl. quid detineat, Zeuss,^2
458), and should therefore probably be translated ‘was delayed.’
Footnote 999:
The fate of the place. The orig. is _don baile_; lit. ‘to (or for) the
place.’
Footnote 1000:
Becc mac Dead, A. L. and L. B. Properly Becc mac De, as in L.
Footnote 1001:
Young men. _Oicc_, pl. of _óc_, ‘young,’ is also used to express young
warriors.
Footnote 1002:
Sure. _Inill_, gl. ‘fidus’(Cormac’s Glossary, Stokes’ ed., p. 77). The
prophet meant that a time would come when the statements contained in
the three first lines could be spoken in the present tense.
Footnote 1003:
Highest. _Ardi_, superl. of _ard_, ‘high;’ but in a secondary sense
‘important.’
Footnote 1004:
Establishment. _Congbail_, a residence or habitation, and figuratively
a church or monastic establishment.
Footnote 1005:
Uttering. _Oc denam_; lit. ‘doing’ or ‘making.’
Footnote 1006:
A son ... in one night. The transcriber seems to have blundered here,
for there would be no great wonder in a boy being born ‘in one night’
(_in oen oidche_). He was probably misled by the shape of the siglum
for _id est_ (.1.) before the words _mac bethad_ (which looks, in the
codices A. L. and L. B., very like the siglum for fifty [.l.]); and
therefore, thinking that ‘fifty sons’ were meant, added _in oen
oidche_, ‘in one night,’ to magnify the prodigy.
Footnote 1007:
Solitude. _Dimorach_, apparently for _diamarach_, or _diomarach_ (as
it is sometimes written), a n. subst. derived from _diamair_,
‘secret,’ ‘lonely.’ The name is still preserved in the form ‘Diamor,’
the name of a place about ten miles to the west of Kells, and very
near Kilskeery (Cill-Scire).—See Joyce’s _Irish Names of Places_, 2d
series, p. 454.
Footnote 1008:
_Grafann._ There is no saint of this name in the Calendar. But the
Four Masters, at A.D. 745, record the death of _Dubhdaleithe na
graiffne_ (‘D. of the writing’) abbot of Cill-Scire (Kilskeery, Co.
Meath), evidently the person referred to, as _na graifne_ is the gen.
sing. of _grafann_, which means ‘writing’ (from _graib_, or _graif_ =
graphium; Reeves’s _Adamnan_, 205, note a). And Dubhdaleithe might
well have been called _Grafann_, as he is supposed to have been the
author of a chronicle called the Book of Dubhdaleithe, quoted in the
Annals of Ulster.
Footnote 1009:
Seized. _Ro len_; lit. ‘followed.’
Footnote 1010:
Uttered. _Conderna_; lit. ‘made.’
Footnote 1011:
Of his age. In other words, he would only live four years longer.
Footnote 1012:
Cloak. _Cochall_ = Lat. Cucullus. In ecclesiastical phraseology, a
cowl; but in a general sense, a cloak, or outer garment.
Footnote 1013:
Suibhne. The son of Aedh Slane’s brother Colman Bec. The murder of a
tribesman was regarded as fratricide under the old Irish legal system.
Footnote 1014:
Brega. The plain of East Meath.
Footnote 1015:
Patrons. _Suithi._ See p. 473, n. 888.
Footnote 1016:
Fir-arda. Now the barony of Ferard, Co. Louth, in which is the parish
of Clonmore.
Footnote 1017:
Manister. ‘The Monastery;’ now Monasterboice, Co. Louth.
Footnote 1018:
Crozier. _Bachall_ = baculus.
Footnote 1019:
Church. _Cill_ = cella. In the orig. of the translation above given
(p. 476) of St. Buite’s prophecy regarding Colum Cille, the
corresponding word is _relicc_, there translated ‘cemetery.’ This
clause is imperfectly given in A. L.
Footnote 1020:
Without fault. _Cen mannair._ ‘Without injury’ would probably be more
correct. Compare _na mandair in lin_; ‘don’t injure the net,’ _Leb. na
hUidre_, 26 b.
Footnote 1021:
Splendid. _Buadach_; lit. ‘victorious;’ an adj. from _buaid_, gl.
Victoria.—Zeuss, 27.
Footnote 1022:
Obliterated. _Nis baithed_; lit. ‘it would not be drowned.’
Footnote 1023:
Rechra. Lambay Island. Traces of the ancient name _Rechra_ (gen.
_Rechrainn_) are preserved in that of _Portrane_ (_Port-Rechrainn_) or
the ‘landing place of Rechra,’ on the coast of Dublin, opposite
Lambay.
Footnote 1024:
Obeyed them. _Doroine C. C. umaloit doib_; lit. ‘C. C. did humility to
them.’
Footnote 1025:
Sord. Swords, Co. Dublin.
Footnote 1026:
Sord. Soid, L. B.
Footnote 1027:
_Polaires._ The actual signification of the Irish word _polaire_ is
not quite clear. In some old Glossaries it is explained as a _tiag
lebar_ (‘book-satchel;’ _tiag_ = _theca_). But in _Lebor na hUidre_ it
seems used in a different sense, as in the sentence _sood a polaire
ina etun isse comartha bias fair_; ‘the change of his _polaire_ in his
forehead is the sign he (Antichrist) shall have’ (p. 18). Here the
writer would seem to have in mind the _signa_ mentioned in Apocal.
chap. vii. In O’Clery’s Glossary, moreover, it is explained as
_comardha_, ‘a sign.’ The word _polaire_ is translated ‘cases’ in
Reeves’s Adamnan, p. 115, note c. Colgan has rendered it in his
edition of the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, under the form
_pallaire_, by tabulæ: ‘tabulis in quibus scribere solebat, vulgo
_pallaire_ appellatis.’—_Tr. Thaum._, pp. 123, 249. But the Irish
_Tripartite_ has no mention of this. _Pollaire_ was apparently some
kind of receptacle for books, perhaps a case for a copy of the
Epistles of St. Paul, whose name is always written _Pol_ in Irish.
Footnote 1028:
Said. Ut dixit, L. B. and _Lismore_. Ut _dubairt an file_, A. L.
Footnote 1029:
Excellent. _Buadach_, an adj. derived from _buaid_, ‘victoria,’
‘palma.’ (Cf. _ani atreba buaid_, gl. palmarium.—Zeuss, 262.)
Footnote 1030:
Wave. This would remind one of little Dombey’s inquiry of his sister,
‘What are the wild waves saying?’
Footnote 1031:
The morning. The orig. is _isin matainse_, ‘in this morning.’
Footnote 1032:
Colum. This parag. is only found in A. L.
Footnote 1033:
Comarbship. _Comarbus_, _i.e._ cohæreditas, succession. See Zeuss, 7,
8.
Footnote 1034:
Cenel-Conaill. The descendants of Conall Gulban (son of Nial
Naoighiallach) from whom Colum Cille was descended in the third
generation.
Footnote 1035:
He. This parag. is also found only in A. L.
Footnote 1036:
Drumcliff. In the barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo.
Footnote 1037:
Mothairen. This saint is mentioned in the Martyrologies of Tallaght
and Donegal at the 9th of June; but in the notes to the Festology of
Aengus he is identified with a St. Torannan, whose festival is entered
under June 12th.
Footnote 1038:
Curragh of the Liffey. Now the Curragh of Kildare. It is worthy of
note, that whilst the name of the plain (Lifè, or Magh-Lifè), of which
the Curragh formed a part, has been lost as regards the plain, it
should still be preserved in that of the river that flowed through it,
the _abhain-Lifè_, or river of the Liffey.
Footnote 1039:
Shamrock-flowery. _Scoth-semrach._ _Scoth_ signifies a flower; and
_semrach_ is an adj. derived from _semar_, trefoil. The word
‘shamrock’ seems a dimin. of _semar_ or _semmor_, as it is written in
the _Book of Leinster_, 112 b. i. (old pagination).
Footnote 1040:
Ownership. _Comus_; lit. ‘power.’
Footnote 1041:
_Recles._ Put here for ‘church.’
Footnote 1042:
Sord. Swords, Co. Dublin.
Footnote 1043:
To the Lord. The construction of this clause in the orig. texts is
rather rude; but it is better in _Lismore_ than in A. L. and L. B.
Footnote 1044:
Druim-monach. This church is not in the list of Columban foundations
given in Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 276 sq.
Footnote 1045:
Moen. Now Moone, in the parish of the same name, Co. Kildare.
Footnote 1046:
As the poet said. _Amaildoraidh an fili_, A. L. and _Lismore_. L. B.
has merely ‘ut dixit.’
Footnote 1047:
Beguiling. _Saebhail._ The word _saeb_, from which is derived
_saebhail_, properly means ‘false;’ but the verb _saebaim_ is used to
signify, ‘I coax, beguile, or seduce.’ See O’Donovan’s Supplement to
O’Reilly, v. _saebhaim_. This quatrain is rudely written in the three
texts.
Footnote 1048:
Cluain; _i.e._ Clonmacnois.
Footnote 1049:
Hair. _Brodirne._ It seems to be the word Latinised ‘fimbria’ by
Adamnan (Reeves’s ed. p. 25). But it is certainly used in the sense of
a ‘hair,’ or ‘thread,’ in the Irish Trip. Life of St. Patrick. _Fer
cech broithirne fil fort chasail_, ‘a man for every hair that is in
thy _casula_’ (p. 67, O’Curry’s copy, R. I. Acad.).
Footnote 1050:
Ernan. Otherwise called Moernoc, and Mernoc. See Reeves’s _Adamnan_,
p. 25, note i.
Footnote 1051:
Cluain-Deochra. In O’Clery’s Irish Calendar, at 11th January, this
place is stated to be in the Co. Longford.
Footnote 1052:
Es-mic-Eirc. The ‘cataract of Erc’s son.’ Afterwards called
_Es-ui-Floinn_, and now written Assylin. It is situated on the river
Boyle, near the town of Boyle, Co. Roscommon.
Footnote 1053:
Druim-cliabh. Drumcliff, Co. Sligo.
Footnote 1054:
Mothoria. This name is written Mothairen, _supra_, p. 489.
Footnote 1055:
_Bachall_ = Lat. baculus, a crozier or pastoral staff.
Footnote 1056:
Es-Ruaidh. Properly Es-Aedha-Ruaidh, or the ‘cataract of Aedh Ruadh’
(Aedus Rufus), a king of Ireland said to have been drowned therein,
A.M. 4518. Now Assaroe, or the Salmon Leap, on the river Erne, at
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.
Footnote 1057:
Conall. Put for Cinel-Conaill, or the descendants of Conall, who
inhabited Tirconnell (or Donegal County, as it is now called).
Footnote 1058:
Eoghan. In this case also, the name of the ancestor is put for the
tribe-name of his descendants, the Cinel-Eoghain, whose territory was
subsequently called Tir-Eoghain (Tyrone).
Footnote 1059:
Torach. Tory (or Torry) Island, off the N. coast of Donegal.
Footnote 1060:
Seniors. _Sruthi._ See p. 473, note 888.
Footnote 1061:
Into. _For_; lit. ‘upon,’ MSS.
Footnote 1062:
He then meditated going. The orig. of this clause is not in A. L.
Footnote 1063:
That went with him. The orig. is _do cuaid_; lit. ‘he went.’
Footnote 1064:
Youths. _Macc_; lit. ‘sons.’ This quatrain is undoubtedly ancient, for
it appears as a marginal note in the hand of the scribe of _Lebor na
hUidre_ (copied circa 1104), in the top marg. of that MS., p. 5.
Footnote 1065:
In good spirits. _Fo somenmain_ (lit. ‘under good spirits’), A. L. and
L. B. _Fo seol soinmech_, ‘under prosperous sail,’ _Lismore_.
Footnote 1066:
Place. _Tir_ = terra, MSS.
Footnote 1067:
Submission. _Do gabail aláma_; lit. ‘to take his hand.’
Footnote 1068:
To him. _Lais_; lit. ‘with him.’
Footnote 1069:
Exposed. _Roindis forru_; lit. ‘told on them.’
Footnote 1070:
Obediently. The texts have _erlattad_, which is a substantive,
signifying obedience, or readiness to obey.
Footnote 1071:
Grave. _Lige_ (glossed ‘torus,’ Zeuss, 45); but frequently used in old
Irish to signify ‘a grave,’ or ‘tomb;’. _i.e._ the last ‘bed’
(_lectus_) or resting-place.
Footnote 1072:
From thee. _Fortsa_; lit. ‘on thee.’
Footnote 1073:
In it. _Inti_, A. L. and L. B.; _in hi_ (in Hi), _Lismore_.
Footnote 1074:
For meditation. _Ri teoir._ The word _teoir_ is explained in an old
MS. thus:—_ón ni is_ teorica vita .i. _beta theoir imcisnech_ .i. nech
_is in eclais og urnaithi no a menma an Dia do grés_; ‘from the thing
that is _theorica vita_, viz., a life of watchful contemplation;
_i.e._ a person who is wont to be in a church praying, or his mind
always intent on God.’ MS. Egerton, 88, Brit. Mus.
Footnote 1075:
Under monastic rule. _Im manchaine_; lit. ‘in monkship.’ _Manchaine_
(deriv. from _manach_ = monachus) also means the duties or services
rendered by monks.
Footnote 1076:
As the poet said. _Amal adubairt in file_, _Lismore_. A. L. and L. B.
have merely ut dixit.
Footnote 1077:
Soldiery. _Ocbad_, properly youths.
Footnote 1078:
Filled the Demon with envy. The orig., literally translated, would be
‘this thing was envy with the Demon.’ (_Ba format la demun inni sin._)
Footnote 1079:
Afflicted. _Cor ben_; lit. ‘and he struck.’
Footnote 1080:
Attacked. _Tanic da_; lit. ‘came to.’
Footnote 1081:
Prayed for him. _Condernasom ernaigti leis_; lit. ‘and he made prayers
with him.’
Footnote 1082:
In the east. _Tair._ As this is the reading in A. L., it would seem
that the narrative in that MS. was compiled in Ireland.
Footnote 1083:
Hither. _Ille_, L. B. and L. _Anair_, ‘from the east,’ A. L.
Footnote 1084:
_Rechull._ Thus in A. L. and L. B. _Lismore_ has _rachall_, which is
explained ‘winding-sheet’ in O’Reilly’s _Irish Dictionary_. The word
_rechull_ is of rare occurrence, and seems here used to express
‘bequest.’ In an old Irish Glossary compiled in the year 1653, the
nom. form _recholl_ occurs, and is explained _dligeadh easbuic_, or
‘bishop’s dues.’
Footnote 1085:
Affected him. _Tanic dosum_; lit. ‘came (or happened) to him.’ ‘Miro
superfusam rubore’ are Adamnan’s words. (Lib. i. cap. 28.)
Footnote 1086:
Port. The Irish word _port_ has many meanings. It signifies not only a
port or harbour, but also a bank, shore, house, place of safety, or
fortified place. The reason it has been translated ‘port’ above, is
because of its occurrence in connection with the preposition _i_ (in).
Footnote 1087:
Rustic. The actual meaning of the word _bachlach_ is shown in a marg.
entry in the _Book of Fenagh_ (ed. Kelly, Dublin, p. 102), where _meic
na m-bachlach_ is translated ‘rusticorum proles.’
Footnote 1088:
Bend down. _Toirnfid_, first fut. sg. indic. of _toirned_, ‘to lower.’
Cf. _intan no toirned a laimh_, ‘when she would lower her hand,’ used
in contrast to _in tan no tógbad a laimh_, ‘when she would raise her
hand.’—_Bruidhen Da Choga_, MS. H. 3, 18, Trin. Coll. Dublin.
Footnote 1089:
Ex-warrior. _Athlaech_, or _athlaech_; _ath_ being here used as a
particle to express privation, and _laech_ signifying warrior. In the
word _athgabail_, ‘re-taking,’ _ath_ has a different sense.
Footnote 1090:
Of his appetite. _Loingthe_, gen. sg. of _longad_, ‘eating.’
Footnote 1091:
Fill. _Sáith_, lit. ‘satiety.’
Footnote 1092:
When. The narrative from this down to the bracket on p. 502 is taken
from the copy of the _Amra Choluim Chille_, or Elegy of Colum Cille,
contained in the MS. so often quoted as A. L. in the notes to this
translation. The text of this MS. is not as full as that of the
preface to the copy of the _Amra_, in the _Leabar Breac_, or of that
in the _Yellow Book of Lecan_, in both of which an account of the
Convention of Druim-ceta is contained. But as far as it goes, A. L.
agrees pretty closely with the other texts. The preface to the copy of
the _Amra_, contained in _Lebor na hUidre_, the oldest text of the
composition we possess, differs in arrangement from the three
mentioned; but the facts related in it are substantially the same as
those given in the others.
Footnote 1093:
Before he died. _Re n-dola ar cel_; lit. ‘before going to heaven.’
Footnote 1094:
Messengers went. The orig. is _do cuas_; lit. ‘there went.’
Footnote 1095:
From the east. See notes, p. 493, _supra_.
Footnote 1096:
_Ollamh_ (pron. _ollave_) was the title of a chief poet.
Footnote 1097:
_Anradh_, or _anrúth_, is explained in Cormac’s Glossary as ‘nomen
secundi gradus poetarum.’
Footnote 1098:
There was. _Ro bai._ The translation is literal; but the real meaning
is, ‘there would have been.’
Footnote 1099:
Them; _i.e._ the Dal-Riada of Scotland.
Footnote 1100:
To pacify them; _i.e._ to make peace between the men of Eriu and the
men of Alba.
Footnote 1101:
Cennfaeladh. Adamnan calls the father ‘Colman’ (lib. i. cap. 11). But
the Irish Annals, with which agree the Irish Pedigrees, say
‘Cennfaeladh.’ The death of a Scannlan Mór, son of Cennfaeladh, chief
of Ossory, is recorded by the annalist Tighernach under A.D. 643. But
the learned editor of _Adamnan_ thinks the interval between the
Convention of Druim-ceta (_circa_ 580) and that date too long to
harmonise with the statements regarding Scannlan, ‘son of Colman,’ in
Adamnan’s account. (Reeves’s _Adamnan_, p. 39, note.) Scannlan was a
young man, however, when detained in prison by King Aedh (580), and
might have really lived down to 640.
Footnote 1102:
Aedh. This Aedh is stated to have reigned as monarch of Ireland from
A.D. 568 to 594.
Footnote 1103:
Building. _Cro_; lit. a ‘sty,’ ‘pen,’ or ‘hut.’
Footnote 1104:
Small allowance. _Teirci_; lit. ‘scarcity.’
Footnote 1105:
Collar. _Culpait._ The etymology of this word is given in Cormac’s
Glossary, as _cail-fuit_; _cail_, ‘a defence;’ and _fuit_, ‘cold.’
Duald mac Firbis explains it by _coiléir_, ‘collar.’ See Stokes’s
_Cormac_, p. 33.
Footnote 1106:
Hood. _Att_; properly _at_, from Engl. ‘hat,’ as hood is from
Anglo-Sax. _hod_, Germ. _hut_. Comp. _atcluig_ (glossed ‘galea’); lit.
‘skull-hat,’ or helmet, and _at anach_, (gl. ‘caputiatus’) Stokes’s
_Irish Glosses_, p. 40.
Footnote 1107:
Henceforth. _Iarmotha_; lit. afterwards. In the preface to the _Amra_
in _Leabar Breac_ (p. 238 c), the corresponding expression is _re la_,
‘during its day.’
Footnote 1108:
The poet. Keating says that the poet was St. Molaisse, the person by
whose award Colum Cille was sent into exile. _History of Ireland_;
_reign of Domhnall, son of Aedh_.
Footnote 1109:
In a boat. _In ethar._ _In eirinn_, ‘to Eriu,’ _Leabar Breac_ and
_Yellow Book of Lecan_.
Footnote 1110:
Avenged. _Gu n-aithfed fair_; lit. ‘that he would avenge it on him.’
In the _Leabar Breac_ and _Yellow Book of Lecan_, the corresponding
expression is, _go mairfed é_, ‘that he (Aedh) would kill him.’
Footnote 1111:
Assembly. _Airecht._ The general meaning of the word _airecht_ (deriv.
from _aire_, a ‘chief,’ or ‘leader’) is an assembly, or conference;
but as used here, it might, perhaps, be more properly translated in
the narrower sense of a ‘party.’
Footnote 1112:
Them; _i.e._ Colum Cille and his company. In the preface to the _Amra_
in _Leabar Breac_ and the _Yellow Book of Lecan_, the words used are
_na clerig_, ‘the clerics.’
Footnote 1113:
Men. m̄ (for _mac_), lit. ‘sons,’ or ‘youths.’
Footnote 1114:
Wounded. _Briste_; lit. ‘broken.’
Footnote 1115:
Bells. _Ceolán._ _Ceolán_, the dim. of _ceol_, ‘music,’ is a very
general name for a bell of any size, although glossographers usually
describe it as ‘a small bell.’ But the word _ceolán_ is often met in
connection with the adj. _bec_, ‘little,’ as _ceolán bec_, ‘a little
bell.’—_Book of Lismore_, 117.
Footnote 1116:
Against him. _Fair_; lit. ‘upon him.’
Footnote 1117:
Conall Clogach. ‘Conall of the bells.’ In Irish history he is
generally called the _righ-oinmhid_, or ‘royal simpleton.’
Footnote 1118:
Kingship. This means that Colum Cille declared him disqualified from
succeeding to the kingship.
Footnote 1119:
Bade him welcome. _Do fer failti fris_; lit. ‘gave welcome to him.’
Footnote 1120:
Blessings. _Briathra_; lit. ‘words,’ or ‘promises.’
Footnote 1121:
Fifty. Domhnall only reigned from 628 to 642.
Footnote 1122:
The queen. A. L. has _do Aed_, ‘to Aedh’ (the king). But the copies of
the preface to the _Amra_ in the _Leabar Breac_, and _Yellow Book of
Lecan_, have _don rigain_, ‘to the queen.’
Footnote 1123:
Her son. Conall was the queen’s son, and Domhnall her step-son.
Footnote 1124:
Crane-cleric. _Corr-chlerech._ This contemptuous expression was
probably used in allusion to St. Colum Cille’s tall stature, _alta
proceritas_, as Oswald describes his shade (_Adamnan_, lib. i. cap.
1).
Footnote 1125:
Granted. _Do cedaig_; lit. ‘he allowed,’ ‘consented.’
Footnote 1126:
Cranes, or rather herons. _Cuirr_, pl. of _corr_, a heron.
Footnote 1127:
_Druim-ceta_ (pron. ‘Drum-Ketta’). Dr. Reeves identifies this place
with the mound called the _Mullagh_ (lit. summit) in Roe Park, near
Newtownlimavady, Co. Londonderry.
Footnote 1128:
Crane-work. _Corrsuidhe_, A. L. But the preface in _Lebor na hUidre_
has (better) _Corraigecht_. This word has two meanings. It means,
firstly, the action of a crane (_corr_), and might be rendered
‘crane-ing,’ or screaming like a crane; and in the next place, it
signifies incessant movement, from _corra_, to move. The author
evidently intended to be facetious.
Footnote 1129:
Herons. _Cuirr-lena_; lit. ‘marsh-herons.’
Footnote 1130:
Live still. For many centuries after the date to which the convention
of Druim-Ceta is referred, as tradition states, these two herons
frequented the part of the river Roe, near the place supposed to be
the site of Druim-ceta, or _Dorsum-cete_.
Footnote 1131:
On seeing the cleric. _Oc facsin in clerig_, L. B. Omitted in A. L.
Footnote 1132:
The corresponding Irish words are wanting in A. L.
Footnote 1133:
Will sing. _Do genat_; lit. ‘they will make.’
Footnote 1134:
Cormac. Cormac, son of Art, son of Conn, king of Ireland in the third
century.
Footnote 1135:
Rhetoric. _Rithorig._ In the _Yellow Book of Lecan_, preface, the word
is _rithlerg_, _i.e._ an extemporaneous rhapsody.
Footnote 1136:
Scannlan. See p. 495.
Footnote 1137:
Take off my shoes. _Frithailas m’assa_; lit. ‘will attend my shoes.’
Footnote 1138:
Dubh-regles. Black church, or Black abbey-church. See Colton’s
_Visitation_ (ed. Reeves), pp. 20, 56.
Footnote 1139:
They ... went. _Do imigh siat_, A. L.; _ro imdigset_, L. B. The
_Yellow Book of Lecan_ has _ro imthig_, ‘he went,’ which seems the
more correct, as the subsequent part of the narrative makes no
reference to the angel’s journey to Derry.
Footnote 1140:
Westwards. _Siar._ This is probably an error for _sair_, ‘eastwards,’
as the chancel was doubtless in the eastern part of the church.
Footnote 1141:
Successors. _Fer thinaid_; lit. ‘thy locum-tenens.’ The tradition of
this imprecation is not yet extinct in Scannlan’s country of Ossory;
and some Ossorians even go so far as to say that stuttering is a
characteristic of Scannlan’s descendants.
Footnote 1142:
Enough for three. _Dabach trir_; lit. ‘a vat of three.’
Footnote 1143:
Great bachall. _Mor bachall._ This celebrated crozier, sent with
Scannlan for his protection, is stated to have been subsequently
preserved in the monastery of Durrow, in the King’s County. (Reeves’s
_Adamnan_, p. 324.)
Footnote 1144:
Died. _Ba marb_; lit. ‘was dead.’
Footnote 1145:
Cause; _i.e._ of Colum Cille’s coming to Ireland.
Footnote 1146:
In place of. _Fri laim_; lit. ‘to the hand;’ but idiomatically
signifying ‘instead of,’ or ‘with the approval of.’
Footnote 1147:
Two young boys. In the _Leabar Breac_ and other copies of the _Amra_
Preface the words are _teora mná ocus maccoem óc_; ‘three women and a
young boy.’
Footnote 1148:
Arms. _Na uchd_; lit. ‘into his bosom.’
Footnote 1149:
Rent. _Cain._ This word anciently meant a penal tax, or fine. But in
later times it was used in the sense of ‘tribute.’
Footnote 1150:
Preface. The Preface to the _Amra_ (or Eulogy) he had composed for
Colum Cille.
Footnote 1151:
It; the _Amra_ itself.
Footnote 1152:
Island; _i.e._ Ireland. Here ends the quotation from A. L. which
begins _supra_, p. 494.
Footnote 1153:
Consoling. _Ca comdidnd_; lit. ‘protecting’ or ‘sheltering.’
Footnote 1154:
Toads. _Loscaind._ This word is used to signify toads, frogs, and
other such reptiles. In a tract on the History of the Children of
Israel, in the _Leabar Breac_, the ‘ranæ’ of Exodus, cap. viii., is
rendered by _loscind_, so that we should probably translate ‘frogs’
instead of ‘toads.’
Footnote 1155:
Those brethren; viz. the brethren who were beside Colum Cille in the
_recles_, or church.
Footnote 1156:
_Sabhall._ The word _Sabhall_ is in Irish employed to denote a ‘barn.’
The church of Saul, in the Co. Down, Ireland, has taken its name from
it.
Footnote 1157:
Attendant. _Foss_; which, though used here as a noun, is more usually
employed as an adj., with the meaning ‘resident.’ See O’Donovan’s
_Supplt. to O’Reilly’s Irish Dict._, v. _fos_.
Footnote 1158:
_Garran_, a work-horse or hack. The corresponding word used by Adamnan
is ‘caballus,’ from which comes the mod. Irish _capall_. The old Irish
for ‘garran’ is _gerrán_, which seems derived from _gerrad_, ‘to cut,’
the ‘garran’ being always a ‘cut’ horse.
Footnote 1159:
Colum. This statement, taken from A. L., is not in L. B. or L. It is
found, however, in the _Book of Fenagh_. See Kelly’s edit. (Dublin,
1875), p. 209.
Footnote 1160:
Certain. The orig. of this paragraph and the following one occurs only
in A. L.
Footnote 1161:
Inish-bo-finne: ‘the island of the white cow.’ Now Bophin Island, off
the coast of Mayo. The _Annals of Ulster_ give Bishop Colman’s
‘pausat’ under A.D. 676.
Footnote 1162:
Paganism. _Geinntlighecht_; lit. ‘gentilism.’
Footnote 1163:
Names. _Ainm_; lit. ‘name.’
Footnote 1164:
Would not have. _Nis gebed_; lit. ‘would not take.’
Footnote 1165:
_Protégé._ The word _dalta_, ordinarily used to signify
‘foster-child,’ is also employed as a term of endearment. Adamnan
calls Diarmait ‘minister’ and ‘ministrator.’
Footnote 1166:
[Immediately.] _Fo cedoir._ Om. in L. B. and L.
Footnote 1167:
Utter. _Do gnid_; lit. ‘would make.’
Footnote 1168:
‘Three fifties.’ The Psalms.
Footnote 1169:
In the sea. _Isin liur._ _Liur_ is the abl. of _ler_, ‘the sea.’ But
we should probably understand ‘seashore.’
Footnote 1170:
When. The orig. of this sentence is only found in A. L.
Footnote 1171:
Blow it away. _Conidsetad gaeth_; _i.e._ the mark of his ribs was
imprinted, through his clothing, in the sand, until defaced by the
action of the wind blowing the loose sand over the mark. This stanza
is somewhat different in the Preface to the _Amra_ in _Lebor na
hUidre_.
Footnote 1172:
And. From this down to the bracket on p. 507 is translated from A. L.,
the corresponding Irish being omitted in L. B. and L.
Footnote 1173:
Savoury things. _Ionmar_; the Irish for ‘dripping,’ or ‘seasoning.’
Colgan translates it ‘obsonium’ (_Acta SS._, p. 734).
Footnote 1174:
Kept vigil. _Figlis_; a verb from _figil_, ‘vigil.’ It is the third
sg. pres. indic., but is here used in the pret. sense.
Footnote 1175:
Him. The person here alluded to was probably Judas Iscariot.
Footnote 1176:
Disciple. _Dalta._ A foster-child. See note 1165, p. 505.
Footnote 1177:
Church. Neimedh = nemed (gl. Sacellum.—Zeuss, _Gram. Celt._ 11).
Footnote 1178:
Which the wave frequents. _Gus ataithig tonn_; ‘to which a wave
frequents.’ The allusion in this expression is rather obscure.
Footnote 1179:
Fulness. _Comlantas_; lit. ‘completeness,’ from _comlan_, ‘complete,’
‘perfect.’
Footnote 1180:
Explains. The explanation is not very explanatory, and seems to have
no reference to Colum Cille, unless we may assume that it was intended
to describe the chalices as made of the same materials as the party
(foirend) of Crimthann’s chessmen.
Footnote 1181:
Could take it. _Nosberaidh_, A. L. The reading in the _Amra Lebor na
hUidre_ is _nisbeir_, ‘carries it not.’
Footnote 1182:
Party. _Foirend_; lit. ‘a crew,’ or ‘company.’
Footnote 1183:
_Findruine._ A metal, the constituents of which are not well known.
O’Clery describes it as _prás go n-air-gead buailte_, ‘brass, with
silver hammered on it.’—_Mart. Donegal._ App. to Introduction, xli.
Footnote 1184:
_Cumhals._ A standard of value frequently mentioned in the Brehon Laws
as worth three cows. Here ends the addition from A. L., which begins
with the bracket, p. 505, _supra_.
Footnote 1185:
Of them; _i.e._ of the days that elapsed since St. Colum Cille’s
death.
II.
THE RULE OF SAINT COLUMBA.
_This rule was first printed by Dr. Reeves from a MS. in the Burgundian
Library at Brussels, with a translation by the late Professor O’Curry,
in the Appendix to Primate Colton’s Visitation of Derry, printed for the
Irish Archæological Society. It was again printed in Haddan and Stubbs’
Councils, vol. ii. p. 119. The translation alone is here given._
THE RULE OF COLUM CILLE BEGINNETH.
Be alone in a separate place near a chief city, if thy conscience is not
prepared to be in common with the crowd.
Be always naked in imitation of Christ and the Evangelists.
Whatsoever little or much thou possessest of anything, whether clothing,
or food, or drink, let it be at the command of the senior and at his
disposal, for it is not befitting a religious to have any distinction of
property with his own free brother.
Let a fast place, with one door, enclose thee.
A few religious men to converse with thee of God and His Testament; to
visit thee on days of solemnity; to strengthen thee in the Testaments of
God and the narratives of the Scriptures.
A person too who would talk with thee in idle words, or of the world; or
who murmurs at what he cannot remedy or prevent, but who would distress
thee more should he be a tattler between friends and foes, thou shalt
not admit him to thee, but at once give him thy benediction should he
deserve it.
Let thy servant be a discreet, religious, not tale-telling man, who is
to attend continually on thee, with moderate labour of course, but
always ready.
Yield submission to every rule that is of devotion.
A mind prepared for red martyrdom.
A mind fortified and steadfast for white martyrdom.
Forgiveness from the heart to every one.
Constant prayers for those who trouble thee.
Fervour in singing the office for the dead, as if every faithful dead
was a particular friend of thine.
Hymns for souls _to be sung_ standing.
Let thy vigils be constant from eve to eve, under the direction of
another person.
Three labours in the day, viz., prayer, work, and reading.
The work to be divided into three parts, viz., thine own work, and the
work of thy place, as regards its real wants; secondly, thy share of the
brethren’s _work_; lastly, to help the neighbours, viz., by instruction,
or writing, or sewing garments, or whatever labour they may be in want
of, ut Dominus ait, ‘Non apparebis ante me vacuus.’
Everything in its proper order; Nemo enim coronabitur nisi qui legitime
certaverit.
Follow almsgiving before all things.
Take not of food till thou art hungry.
Sleep not till thou feelest desire.
Speak not except on business.
Every increase which comes to thee in lawful meals, or in wearing
apparel, give it for pity to the brethren that want it, or to the poor
in like manner.
The love of God with all thy heart and all thy strength.
The love of thy neighbour as thyself.
Abide in the Testaments of God throughout all times.
Thy measure of prayer shall be until thy tears come;
Or thy measure of work of labour till thy tears come;
Or thy measure of thy work of labour, or of thy genuflexions, until thy
perspiration often comes, if thy tears are not free.
FINIT.
III.
CATALOGUE OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES, at the end of the Chronicle of HENRY OF
SILGRAVE, _c._ A.D. 1272, so far as it relates to Scotland.
_This Catalogue was printed by Mr. J. Stevenson from Cott. MS. Cleopat.
A. xii. fol. 56, in his notes to the Scalachronica, edited for the
Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs, pp. 241, 242; and again in Haddan and
Stubbs’ Councils, vol. ii. pp. 181, 182. The monasteries in ‘Laudian’
are omitted._
IN SCOTIA.
Episcopatus Sancti Andree { Canonici Nigri.
{ Keledei.
Abbatia Dunfermelin S. Trinitatis Monachi Nigri.
Abbatia Streuelin S * * * Canonici Nigri.
Prioratus de May; de Readinge Monachi Nigri.
Prioratus in Insula S. Columbe Canonici Nigri.
Abbatia de Lundres S * * * { Monachi Nigri de
{ Tyron.
Prioratus de Pert S * * * Moniales Nigræ.
Abbatia de Scone S * * * Canonici Nigri.
Prioratus de Nostinot S * * * Canonici Nigri.
Abbatia de Cupre Monachi Albi.
Abbatia Aberbrothoc Monachi de Tyron.
Episcopatus Dunkeldre S. Columkille { Canonici Nigri.
{ Keledei.
Episcopatus de Brechin Keledei.
Episcopatus de Aberde[n]
Episcopatus de Mureue Canonici Seculares.
Prioratus de Hurtard { Monachi Nigri de
{ Dunferml.
Abbatia de Kinlos Monachi Albi.
Episcopatus de Ros Keledei.
Episcopatus de Glascu Canonici Seculares.
Abbatia Sancti Kinewini Monachi de Tyron.
Episcopatus de Galeweye
Abbatia de Candida Casa Monachi Albi.
Abbatia M Monachi Nigri.
Episcopatus de Du[m]blin Keledei.
Episcopatus de Katenesio Keledei.
Episcopatus de Argiul Keledei.
Abbatia in Insula (Iona) Keledei.
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Transcriber’s Note
A nunber of footnotes are referred to in multiple places in the text
using the same number. On p. 485, two phrases in a single note (now note
1006) were referred to by two separate references, and both are now
given as 1006.
The ecclesiastical leader Conn na-mbocht (d. 1061) appears with and
without hyphens, as Conn _na-bocht_ (p. 342) and Conn _nabocht_ (p.
252). Modern references refer to him as Conn-na-bocht, or Conn na
mBocht. Both spellings are retained.
On p. 68, a quote from Rev. William Reeves was mispunctuated, and has
been corrected. See the table below for details.
Names frequently appear with some variation of spelling, and given the
fluidity of vowels in Gaelic, Anglic, and Latin, these have usually been
retained. That said, the place-name ‘Lanfortin’ appears only once as
‘Lonfortin’ and while it seems to have been in use at the time, is
assumed to be an error here.
The text mentions ‘Brude, son of _Dargart_’ repeatedly, save for three
times on p. 259. The first has ‘Dergart’ in the author’s voice,
‘Dergard’ in a quoted passage, and ‘Dergert’ in a footnote on that page.
The first has been corrected, but the quoted instances were left as
printed.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and
are noted here. The references in the table below are to the page and
line in the original.
There are a number of instances of quotations being unclosed or
otherwise mispunctuated. Closure is sometimes not obvious, and where
possible the original sources were consulted. Skene often begins with
quotation and continues in paraphrase without clearly marking such.
Where it is not clear, these have been corrected and noted as
‘Probable.’
An extended quote from Bede’s Life of St. Cuthbert (pp. 216-27)
mishandled embedded quotation marks, which have been corrected.
3.36 in north Hy-Faelan,[’] Added.
5.27 ad Catholicam fidem dirigit.[’] Added.
6.34 till the empire was broken up[,/.] Replaced.
20.26 gives of himself[ ]in these documents Inserted.
27.25 in the territory of the Britons.[’] Added.
29.6 not satisfied with[t / t]his Replaced.
30.26 [‘/“]What would be given Replaced.
31.1 faith in Ireland after Patrick.[”]’ Inserted.
33.30 extended their pos[s]essions Inserted.
37.24 and one at L[o/a]nfortin Replaced.
57.7 The prim[i]tive Irish monastery Restored.
61.36 procurante perducti sunt.[’] Added.
68.5 [‘]in whom the tenancy of the lands Added.
68.8 [‘]_Ecclesiastica progenies_,[’] Removed.
68.26 the abbacy taken (in their order).[’] Added.
70.24 Co[cn/nc]had went to Armagh Transposed.
80.20 which professes[s] to be a chronological Removed.
digest
120.29 over his grave.[’] Added.
151.12 [‘/“]To our lords and most dear brethren Replaced.
151.29 we were eating.[”]’ Added.
145.4 clean linen cloths[’] Added.
149.20 [‘/“]As thy devout wish Replaced.
157.36 protestatus est.[’] Added.
165.28 nor question their sanctity.[’] Added.
167.29 _Inisboufinde_,[’] Added.
176.18 [‘]Naiton, king of the Picts Added.
181.18 ‘O utinam si sic esset,[’] Added.
181.26 being solemnly sung.[’] Removed.
184.3 [‘]next morning Kentigern Added.
188.22 [‘]some cleared and levelled Added.
194.28 is too graphic to be om[m]itted Omitted.
196.4 It[,] must, however, have reached Removed.
206.20 and became a solitary.[’] Added.
202.30 with the rest of the brethren;[’] Added.
213.9 from a college of monks.[’] Added.
216.14 the whole kingdom of the Picts.[’] Added.
216.25 [‘/“]Keep peace,[’/,” he said, [‘/“]one with Replaced.
another,
216.34 conversation.[’/”] Replaced.
217.1 [‘/“]But with those that err Replaced.
217.4 have no communion.[’/”] Replaced.
237.1 from the world;[’] Added.
254.2 it is called [‘/“]insula viventium,[’/”] Replaced
254.3 the island of the living.[’] Added.
259.2 Brude, son of D[e/a]rgart Replaced.
261.12 of the twel[f]th century Inserted.
283.25 was this Cilline Droichteach;[’] Added.
283.33 princeps Ego, mortu[n/u]s est. Inverted.
291.36 the term ‘templum,[’] Added.
335.4 So that Dun is his blessed church.[’] Added.
379.27 Two part[ies] with rival abbots. Restored.
383.12 was held on the [the ]25th of September Removed.
398.34 Suppression of _Keled[e]i_ of Abernethy. Inserted.
409.8 we find [‘]in 1544 Archibald Campbell Probable.
446.1 to the church of Deer;[’] Added.
469.29 after his example.[’] Added.
472.36 ‘few [or many[]];’ Added.
474.30 ‘through life everlast[t]ing,’ Removed.
485.38 gl. ‘fidus[’] Added.
486.39 siglum for fifty [.l.][)]; Added.
501.7 Scann[al/lan] then lifted the vessel Replaced.
509.32 Mr. J. Stevenson from Co[ll/tt]. MS. Replaced.