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METRICA
PAGE vi. I5. The theory that 'if dk and d come together
they have between them the value of t' is erroneous. For
m1arbilniadl De we should read marbznat De. The four forms
iarb/znadht , marbltnad, marbt/ati, and marbhnat are recog-
nized variants. An example of the last is given in Ms. 24.
P. 8 (R.I.A.), p. 82:
Ni marbtnat gan fhachuin f,
mo ri is m'athair dagrmthac De.
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ib. 16.is
former The Mid.
here Ir. text
turned in Ir.,
into O. ER
gaiac is made glwdin, which does
period.' The elision of the initi
been marked.
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though most of the quatrains are aicclech. Th
quatrain
Fulocht Chind Tire, fasc Inbir FEile,
fedil daimi Chnuicc Clire, saill bruicc a Bdrre-
to the fact that in IT. III. I52 a very corrupt quatrain from
LL., described as dechnad modr, apparently counts 8' + 52. The
correct text edited in Zu ir. Handschr. u. Litt. I. 75 has of
course 82+ 6 . Meyer, adopting Thurneysen's earlier classifica-
tion, but discarding the unintelligible example from LL., has
replaced it by an example of the real dechnad muodr, overlooking
the discrepancy. 32 and 33 should be combined.
ib. I7. Omit 45b39, for the poem referred to is in the
metre rindaird.
ib. 25. For ranluaigecct read carnraznait echt. (Cf. p. 20, 38.)
p. 20. 2. The reference cannot be right, for the text of
LL. is :
Fail and 6tach meic ind Rig assa cds for cach n-den
fail and is amru cach hbrig a iuil fir assa thoeb,
and this is not an example of 71+ 51. In fact, the whole poem
in LL. is irregular.
p. 21. 8. The reference is out of place. It belongs to
38 on the preceding page, for the poem in Tochmarc Ferbe
is in 71+ 31.
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p. 22. I 3. For dognithi read donilhi (
has donithi). It alliterates with newduaide (n
In artistic examples of seudna the first
quatrain are regularly connected by allite
makes the poet guilty of the metrical fault
As a point of grammar it may be noted tha
lost its g in the Early Mid. Ir. period: cf. th
I 19a32 (twice), Atk. PH. p. 665, doneth
(see Thurneysen, Ind. Forsch. xxxi1., A
poetry the forms with g (go) are exceedin
thirteenth century on we find almost in
alliterating with n-. Of course the chang
is not a purely phonetic one, for in all othe
the accent remains to the present day, e.
ghinth. It is due to the analogy of the p
Recently the archaizing tendencies of editor
in Keating's Thiree Shafts, have reintroduce
and obscured the historical development.
ib. I7. Ollbairdne, 42+ 83. It should b
Goffraidh 6 Cl6righ's poem the common
4' + 83, and there is one case of 83 + 43 : t
should evidently be printed thus:
Cindus rachad 'sa Raimh re snechta sindeorach ?
mellaid in tsraid gel griananach fer frimedlach.
This gives alliteration in the third verse, and connects it by
internal rime with the fourth and by consonance with the
second and fourth.
'I am all thine: thou art the Son of the Virgin Mary.' See
IT. III. I . This gives the requisite number of syllables, with
the internal rimes lat : Mac and uile : Muire. The reading of
H. a meic maith muiri ingine would also give the eight
syllables.
p. 23. I3. 'Silva Gad., p. I6o; ib. 214.' These are not
further examples, merely other copies of the poems referred
in the preceding line to Stokes's Acall. Delete.
ib. 14. ' Zeitschr. vi. p. 27 1.' Another version of the poem
on the canonical hours for which we have just been referred to
Acall. 1. 2956 ff. and SG. 16o. Delete.
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