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GLEANINGS FROM IRISH MANUSCRIPTS
1 3 lit. * in unmarried state,' aontomha being subject to the
verb in the next line.
14 imdioll .i. fleadhy O Clery, cited by Windisch. The
word is found in Cormac § 778 (new ed.) and Archiv i, 268.
I 5 lit. ' chosen.'
16 A synonym for Ireland. Tailtiu is now Teltown, not far
from Navan, on the Blackwater.
17 i.e. Niall Nóigiallach ' of the Nine Hostages.' The earliest
explanation of the epithet is that Niall took five hostages of the
five provinces of Ireland and four out of Alba i.e. Great Britain.
See Otia Merseiana ii. 87.
18 One of the legendary heroes of the Milesians.
1 9 Énna, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages ; see the Laud
Genealogies, CZ viii, 293.
20 Baile Adhaimh, Adamstown in the parish of Castletown,
and barony of Moycashel.
21 call... coll * a harp made of hazel.'
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