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hand — "Mise Domlinull Gorni." This hand-
writing:, of course, is entirely different from
the handwriting: of the MS. itself, and is
in every way a finer hand. Curiously
enough, Skeat makes mo reference to it
either in his edition of the Kingis Quair or
in his "Minor Poems of Chaucer." Perhaps
the forthcoming' volumes of "The Clan
Donald" may contain, minutiae to justify a
further inference. Anyhow, DomhnuU
Gorm's name is a link in the history of the
MS., aoid his name is also referred to in
the Fernaig-: —
"Ni air mhaireann fir Innse-Gall
Mor an call dom r'a m' aois
Ceannard an t-sloigh Domhnull Gorm
Is Ruaraidh nan com 's nam pios."
I am beholden to Heinrich Zimmer, the
illustrious Professor of Sanskrit and Com-
parative Philology, University of Greifs-
wald, Prussia, whose many-sided learning
and insight throws a glory upon the German
name, for gracious permission to render his
paper on the Pictish Matriarchate, which ia
included in the present volume. Some
of the notes to that paper I have found it
best to incorporate in the text, and the
classical quotations are done into English.
No greater master of critical Gaelic learn-
ing has arisen, and it is good to look at
this tantalizing problem with his eyes.
The airs to the words on pages 113, 117,
122, 144, 166, and 173 of this book are to
be found on pages 16, 29, 13, 24, 27, and
26 respectively of the supplement now-
appearing to the "Gesto Collection of High-
land Music," by Dr K. N. Macdonald. It
is with great pleasure I turn over its pages,
as thus far in this matter I find my own
judgment quite unexpectedly and inde-
pendently confirmed. Naturally, oral ver-
sions are different in different districts. I
have been careful to keep the dialectal words.