Revue celtique - National Library of Scotland

The ancient Irish Goddess of War. 4c) i
not die sitting or lying, (but) that he might die standing.' But sureiy
the true version is this : — 'Now there went westwards from
the lake a great mearing, and his eye lit ' upon it, and he fared to
a pillar-stone which is in the plain, and put his waistbe'.t around
it, that he might not die sitting nor lying down, (but) that he might
perish standing.'
Why, too, does he write (pp. 35, 41) the nominative ^Imcd of the name
of his nation ''Gaeidhel,' when it is 'Gaeidh/i' or (in Old-Irish spel-
ling) 'Gôidil,' and the name of his national hero 'Cuchullain' or
'Cuchullainn,' when the real name is Cûchulainn or Cu-chulaind,
literally 'Culand's Hound' ?
So much for corrigenda to this valuable and most interesting paper.
As addenda I would mention 1) the quatrain from LU. 50a.
Mac Lonan àmi :
Mian mnd tethrach 2 atenld The she-scallcrow's longing is her fires,
slaide seîhnach iarsodain Slashing of sides thereafter,
siiba tuba folubaib Blood, body under bodies,
ugail trôga dir drogain Eyes, heads (.''j. a meet word !
Tetrach is glossed by badb. So O'Clery : Uathra .i. badhb nofeanog.
2) The statement madeby O'CurryfMannersand Customs, ii. 50) that
the Mdr-Rigan was the wife of the Daghda,and3jthe following passage
from the Bruden Da Derga, LU. 94 :
Imdai nam-hadb.
Atconnarc triar nocht hi-cléthi in-tigi a-t6esca fola trethu. 7 sûdinemuin
an airlig aram-braigti.
Rus-fetursa olse. tri ernbaid ûagboid triar orgar la cach naim insin.
This seems to mean :
'The room of the Babds.
'I saw a naked Three in the top of the house. Their streams of blood
(ran) through them, and the ropes of their slaughter (were) on their
necks.'
'I know them,' says he. 'Three awful slaughterers (?) : three that
(themselves) are slain at every time are those.'
What are the 'ropes' hère raentioned ? May we compare Salomon and
Satura, éd. Kemble, p. 164?
hwaet beôdh dha feowere What be the four
1. Literally, 'was borne.'
2. Should we render mna tetrach à. badb by 'Tethra's wife i. e. Badb' ? Tethra was
king of the Fomoire. O'Clery and the Forus Focal cited by O'R. s. v. Troghan are in
favour of my rendering ; but Irish glossographers are by no means infallible.