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Monday morning. (Sdire Domiiaig 6 espartu int
Shathairnd co liérgi. gréne dia Luain, LBr., p. 204b ;
Ó trad esjJortai dia Sadairnn cofuin maitni die Luain,
Harl., fo. 38a.) Cf. also p. 28, 30. Some food, but
little only, was allowed to guests who came from afar
on Saturday night. QSaiged bid do áigedaih,becc araha
di slmidiu^do neucli doteit di céin aidchen-Domnaig,ib.)
19 2 Mvinter Chorcaige. Henn. throughout rendered jrmÍMÍer
by " people". But it means the aggregate of monks
in each monastery— Lat./flmiZiff.
21 é fuilled ro-immarcraid ind-aithi, "even to a degree
greater than that", Hennessy, evidently taking
ind-aitlti as standing for indás sin. But no emenda-
tion is required.
17 ni frith loc laburtha i n-dligud, " no instance of illegal
utterance", Henn. evidently reading indligid. But
i n-dligud, if taken with niflirith, makes perfectly
good sense.
25 f6 liúmm cé notisad de, " I care not what may come of
it", Henn., hardly correctly.
23 7 Pars. " Partes dicuntur divinae Eucharistiae vel
panis Eucharistici particulae, quae a sacerdote inter
missse solemnia f ractae in partes minutiores fidelibus
distribuebantur ad communionem." (Ducange.)
9 Dol do Idim, " to go to confession, be absolved", mod. Ir.
dill fa Idimh sliagairt. The priest raises his hand in
the absolution. See Reeves, Culdcc-s, p. 202.
24 ni rochaithes for set. Henn. translates, " I consumed
not your food", probably extending the .s. of the MS.
into seire instead of the usual set.
24 IG "Ever-full." " This is supposed to be the well which
now gives name to the ■ivell-known district of Sun-
day's Well, in the city of Cork. It was also called
tobar righ an domhnaigh, or " the well of Sunday's
King", a name applied to many holy wells in Ireland."
(Henn.)
19 Supine. This passage determines the original sense of
the adj. fden (on which see Eer. Celt., xi, p. 456).
It means " outstretched, on one's back, with face up-