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acht Additional Articles adds ainm Aliter Athairne borrowed Brehon Brehon laws Bret Bretha nemed cach cail cech Celtic cited cognate Coirpre Cormac Cormac mac Airt Corn corrupt cows Cúchulainn Dagdae déach death dixit Duil duine Félire Finn Firbis flaith FOCHLA fuin gach Gael Gaelic gaire Gaulish gloss Glossaries glossographer Goth graece Hence hero hymn inde dicitur infra s. v. Ireland Irish isin king Latin LITTERA Mac Firbis Magh Manx means noble nomen nomine O'Clery O'Clery explains O'Clery.-Ed O'D conjectures O'D renders O'D translates O'Dav O'Davoren O'Don occurs supra Ogham perhaps poet quasi quatrain quia quod root satire secht seems cognate Senchán Senchas Mór Siegfried Supp Suppt supra s. v. syllable thee thou Tuatha dé Danann unde dicitur verbo Welsh whence woman word Zeuss
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Seite 41 - They whirl round like moulding compasses, each of them taking the place of the other, like the paddles . . . of a millwheel, until they are sucked into the depths, so that the caldron remains with its mouth wide open ; and it would suck even the whole of Ireland into its yawning gullet. It vomits iterum that draught up, so that its thunderous eructation and its bursting and its roaring are heard among the clouds, like the steam-boiling of a caldron on the fire.
Seite 111 - MacLiathaiu, for mac is the same as map in the British. Thus every tribe divided on that . side (£), for its property to the east was equal [to that on the west] (c) and they continued in this power till long after the coming of Patrick.
Seite 136 - Glossary. his nose : like the blowing of bellows [?] smelting ore the drawing and expiration of his breath : sledge-hammers would not strike off a glowing mass what his lips struck forth of fire : swifter, he, than a swallow or a hare on a plain : yellower than gold the points of his teeth : greener than holly their butt : two shins bare-slender, full-speckled under him : two heels spiky, yellow, black-spotted : his shin like a distaff : his thigh like an axe-handle (a) : his buttock like a half-cheese...
Seite 23 - This is Brigit the female sage, or woman of wisdom, ie Brigit the goddess whom poets adored, because very great and very famous was her protecting care. It is therefore they call her goddess of poets by this name. Whose sisters were Brigit the female physician [woman of leechcraft] ; Brigit the female smith [woman of smithwork] ; from whose names with all Irishmen a goddess was called Brigit.
Seite 75 - Since the fe was measured on Flann. Aliter, a rod of aspen was used by the Gaels for the measuring of the bodies, and the graves in which they were interred, and this wand was always in the cemeteries of the heathen, and...
Seite 111 - Eirin, and the Britons commanded that no lapdog should be given to the Gael on solicitation or by free will, for gratitude or friendship. Now at this time the law among the Britons was, ' Every criminal for his crime such as breaks the law ' (a). There was a beautiful lapdog in the possession of a friend of Cairbre Muse in Britain, and Cairbre got it from him [thus]. Once as Cairbre [went] to his house, he was made welcome to everything save the lapdog.
Seite 111 - Alban between them into districts, and each knew the residence of his friend, and not less did the Gael dwell on the east side of the sea, as in Scotia or Ireland, and their habitations and royal forts were built there.
Seite 95 - There was also a belief in the efficacy of charms, a belief which has not yet been forgotten. In the Brehon Laws mention is made of a fine for killing a dog by giving it a charmed morsel to test the charm, and see if it has virtue. In the same laws there is a fine for breaking bones from a churchyard...
Seite 114 - Lir, a celebrated merchant who was in the Isle of Mann. He was the best pilot that was in the west of Europe. He used to know by studying the heavens...