The versions of this incident differ considerably both in detail and
in the setting of the incident.
"_Cluain Innsythe_," where LA sets the story, is unknown. There is
no river in Aran, where VG places the incident; in this version,
therefore, the ship is placed on the sea.
_Lonan the Left-handed._--Nothing further is recorded of this person,
so far as I know. The parenthesis describing how he "was ever
contradictious of Ciaran" is probably a gloss; so far as the incident
goes, the contradictiousness is the other way.
Note the interesting sidelights upon the practice of artificially
drying grain in LA. There are some technical terms in the Latin of
this incident in the LA version. Thus, the word here translated "hut"
is _zabulum_; this I presume is another way of spelling _stabulum_,
for the meanings given in Du Cange to _zabulum_ or similar words are
here quite unsuitable. The word which I have rendered "platter" is
_rota_, and the word translated "shed" is _canaba_.