This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... to be in life After the king of the Gaels and Galls: Sad is my eye, withered my clay (a) Since the fe was measured on Flann. Alitor, 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 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... to be in life After the king of the Gaels and Galls: Sad is my eye, withered my clay (a) Since the fe was measured on Flann. Alitor, 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 it was a horror to every one taking it in his hand, and every thing that was odious? with the men was struck with it, undo in proverbium venit fSfrit "a fe to it"! for as the wand was odious cui nomen est f6, sic et aha res cui comparatur. For it was the aspen which the wand used to be, and it is odious. Therefore says Morann in the Briathar Ogham aercaid fid eialh, i.e. the reproach which attached to the rod cui nomen est fe. This is a referenco to the vestal sic. qy. virgular? Ogham of Morann, at the end of the Ogham tract, in H. 3, 18. If the Flann mentioned in the quatrain was Flann Sinna airdri of Ireland it could not have been written or quoted by Cormac mac Cuillennain.--O'D. for king Flann died A. D. 914, and Cormac was slain eleven years before. O'Davorcn p. 84., explains Fee by mors, but O'Clery, following Cormac, by slat tomhais uaighe ' a rod for measuring a grave'.--Fd. Fidchell Fithcill B. i. fe'lh-ciall, fdth-ciall i.e. it requires sense (cialJ) andfath (' learning') in playing it. Or fuath-cell, i. fnath cille ' likeness of a church', in the first place, the fidchell is four-cornered, its squares are right-angled, and black and white are on it, and, moreover, it is different people that in turn (b) win the game. Sic et ecclesia per singula per iiii. terrae partes iiii. evangeliis pasta (c). It is straight in the morals and points (a) B hag: ere gan deg-oll.nn do and sires the quatrain at the end of the...
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