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The Klosterneuburg incantation. 1 1 j
I . Cris finndin damimdegail imum imacuâirt.
Naramtairthea innsét timcellas intuaith.
^ . Ramthi Idm indulé[m]an [dimdegail] mahrond.
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Lurech dé dumimdegail otamind gombond.
Cris finneain muchris argalar arches
Aruptlh^aib ban mb[a]eth araech adamles.
7. Cris eoin muchris ralég sûidi hglan.
Claid fegafer soid uptha ban.
9. Cris nathrach muchris nathair imàiJ
1 2 . Fobrut
Nâramgonat jir naramillet mn.i.
Durennaib rombra fomôir imdtâ.
mûri dam fo[r]sarabi inri
Fotrochlanib [dam] jochochlan mubi.
14. Mucholmoc ramcharastar arfégad arfis.
Isairai ramcharastar uair istend mochris.
Line 1 and 2 are correctiy given in Z^ 954.
Finndin (leg. findin^
sg. of Finân, the name of two saints, one (Findn laindrech lobarj
mentioned in the Félire March 16, the other {Findn camm cind etig men-
\ tioned in the same poem at April 7. Innsét for in sét a nom. sg.
' Line
• gives
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3. For Ramthi Idm which is quite clear in the codex^ Haupt
Raucthi Idin which is not Irish. Ramthi is for ro-m-thi, where ti is
a ^d sg. s-conjunctive meaning ' veniat '. See mina thii, co ti, ti-at,
Beitr. vu. 47. The induléan of the ms. is obviously a mistake for indû-
leman, the gen. sg. (with the article) of dùlem ' creator '. Compare
tarfds dé Idm induileman ('apparuit ei manus Creatoris') Leb. Brecc,
p. 37
^. The latter half of the line requires three syllables, which I hâve
conjecturally supplied in brackets. Compare Idm dé domm indegail
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- manus dei ad me protegendum ' Patrick's hymn.
[ Line 5. For finnedin, gen. sg. of Finneân, Finniân (of Cluain Iraird, a
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• adamles
wellknown saint of the sixth century), Haupt \vror\g\y gives fimieain.
Line 6. Uptaib a scribe's mistake for upthaib, dat. pi. of the Middle-Irish
iormoî epaid, nom. or ace. pi. aipthi (gl. veneficia) Z^ 60. The Middle-
Irish ace. pi. uptha occurs in line 8. Hence the adj. aupthach n. pi. f.
mnd aupthacha. Vis. Adamn. 224.
For ban rhbaeth ' mulierum stultarum ' the ms. has (as Haupt gives
it) baniiibeth. for araech the ms. has ajraech. aech I take to be Cormac's
oech :'= ' ' 'poechj hostis = A. S. fâh, Engl. foe.
a Middle Irish relative form , like timcellas {do-imm-chella-s)
line I, contracted from 'aiame//e5 from the verbale///- adeilliub 'veniam'
Z 2 4^8 , with the infixed pronoun of the first pers. sg.
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