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The Death of the Sons of Uisnech. 1 2
not seen this work. Sir Samuel Ferguson culls it 'a fine ro-
mantic poem'.
d. The anonymous author (the late Dr. Angus Smith of
Manchester) of Loch Etive and the Sons of Usnach, London,
Macmillan, 1879.
In order to complete the bibliography of our story,
I may mention that it is noticed in Campbell's Tales of the
Western Highlands, Edinburgh, 1862, vol. IV. pp. 45, 46, 113,
279, and that a prose translation of Deirdre's first song
(Inmain tir an tir tit thoir) is given in the introduction
(pp. Ixxxvn, lxxxvin) to The Bean of Lismorés Boole, Edin-
burgh, 1862. This translation is full of faults, e. g. fan mhoi-
rinn caoimh is rendered "by its soothing murmur"; sieng is saill
bruicc "flesh of wild boar and badger": donimais collud corrach
"solitary was the place of our repose"; uallcha "more joyful".
In the same introduction, p. lxxxi, Mr. Skene states that the
children of Uisneach were "Cruithne" (by which, I suppose,
Cruithnig 'Picts' is intended): that near Oban there is a fort
with vitrified remains called "Dun mhic Uisneachan", now cor-
ruptly called in guidebooks ."Dun mac Suiachan" : that on Loch
Etive we have "Glen Uisneach and Suidhe Dcardhuil": that
"two vitrified forts in the neighbourhood of Lochness are called
Dun-deardhuil". It is just possible that some of this topography
may be correct; but when Mr. Skene connects Adam-
nan's regio or mons Cainle with the man's name Ainnle, and
the rivername Nesa with the man's name Naisi, and when he
invents a place-name "Arcardan" in order to connect it with
Arddn, he must excuse Celtic, and, indeed all other, scholars
for declining to follow him.
Lastly, I desire to say that the word oided, pi. n. oitte,
here for sake of brevity rendered by 'Death', properly means
a 'death attended by violence or other tragical circumstance',
'destruction', 'ruin', and glosses the latin interitu in the Würz-
burg Codex Paulinus, fo. 27 b , ad Coloss. II 22.