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Página 187 - Speckled Book," otherwise styled, "The Great Book of Dun Doighre": a Collection of Pieces in Irish and Latin, transcribed towards the close of the Fourteenth Century. "The oldest and best Irish MS. relating to Church History now preserved
Página 187 - A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, in the Irish Language, transcribed about AD noo; the oldest volume now known entirely in the Irish language, and one of the chief surviving native literary monuments — not ecclesiastical — of ancient Ireland; now for the first time published, from the original in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, with account of the Manuscript, description of its contents, index, and facsimiles in colours. In folio, on toned paper, half-calf. £3, 3*.
Página 178 - And it is therefore that swords are entitled to the tribute of cleaning them whenever they are opened. It is on this account, too, that charms are preserved in swords, from that time down. Now the reason why demons were accustomed to speak from weapons at that time was, because arms were worshipped by people in those times, and arms were among the protections (or sanctuaries) of those times.
Página 176 - The Cain Domnaig enjoins under severe penalties that every class shall abstain from all kinds of work on Sunday, and that none shall travel on that day ; but wherever one happens to be on Saturday evening, there he should remain till Monday morning. To this there were some exceptions, such as bringing a physician to a sick person, relieving a woman in labour, saving a house from fire, &c.
Página 119 - Breg6, and he carried away fifty blue cloaks, and each of them was like to the findruinf of a work of art, and four black-grey ears on each cloak, and a brooch of red gold with each cloak ; and pale- white shirts with loop-animals of gold around them. And fifty silver shields with edges, and a candle of a king-house in the hand of each of them [the men] : and fifty studs of findruine on each of them [the shields] : fifty knobs of thoroughly burned gold in each of them : pins of carbuncle under them...
Página 75 - Pupa9 (Pope), was because he obtained the abbacy of Rome after Gregory ; and he vacated the abbacy, and went in search of his master (ie Gregory), across to the west of Europe, and to Ara of the saints ; so that the third angelical cemetery of Ara is the cemetery of Pupa, son of Faolchar, son of Edalach.
Página 36 - Accordingly he settled them in the most beautiful hills and valleys, drawing round them an invisible wall impenetrable to the eyes of other men, and impassable, but through which they themselves could see and pass without difficulty. Manannan also supplied them with the ale of Goibhnenn, the Smith, which preserved them from old age, disease, and death ; and gave them for food his own swine, which, although killed and eaten one day, were alive again, and fit for being eaten again, the next, and so...
Página 138 - Ennius de Africano : Hie est ille situs. Vere : Nam siti dicuntur ii qui mortui sunt." The two forms occur in the following passage at the close of the Serg-lig'i...
Página 127 - He then goes away and breaks a branch off the tree and brings it at his back over the water. The remark of Find-abair then was : " Is it not beautiful he looks...
Página 151 - There was a pit in the dun, Belonging to the king, it is related ; — Ten serpents burst Over its border — it was a deed ! After that I attacked them, Though vast the throng, Until I made bits of them Between my two fists. A house full of toads, They were let fly at us ; Sharp, beaked monsters, They stuck in my snout, &c. This extract will illustrate the meaning of our phrase, " several tribes are let loose from her ;" that is, tribes of serpents. Z1 t)un Ollaiô. Now Dunolly, near Oban. See Dr....