Edited from Cotton Nero A 7, normalized to 8th c. Old Irish standard; with English translation and notes. Includes a transcript of the MS together with citations from the text.

Poem beg. Ba haprainn nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac, ed. with transl. and notes from MSS RIA 23 N 10 and LL. Incl. discussion of metre, style and ling. dating.

1. An unnecessary emendation (vs. W. Stokes's emendation of snidhfed to sn[a]idh[m]fed, RC 12 (1891), 306-08 (§14), reproduced in E. A. Gray, Cath Maige Tuired (1982); also discussion of the theme of womenfolk’s intervention in political affairs); 2. OIr. -tochus (Interprets MS toc̄sa (§67) as tochus, prototonic fut. 1 sg. of do-cing ‘steps, strides forward; advances, comes’); 3. A redactorial intrusion [in §69].

Argues that bé and ben are secondarily differentiated forms abstracted from morphophonemic variants of a single underlying stem.

/Rˊ/ > /R/; /ɛː/ > /ia/; /əː/ > /ɛː/; /ɣ⁽ˊ⁾ə/ > Ø.

ad J. Jasanoff, TPS (1986), pp. 132-41; aisnde ‘declare’ also belongs to class of ‘si-imperatives’.

vs. T. F. O’Rahilly, Ériu 13/2 (1942), pp. 163-66. Argues that bolg ‘gap’ derives from *bolcc [-k] and concludes that blog and belach are not related.

ad T. F. O’Rahilly, Ériu 13/2 (1942), pp. 148-49.

1. gleoiteog; 2. fonsa, fronsa, fuaidheam (from Robert Kirk’s 1690 glossary; all associated with women’s dress; fonsa ‘hoop’; fronsa < Engl. ‘frounce’ / ‘flounce’; fuaidheam ‘seam’ is a Scottish Gaelic form related to uaim ‘seam’.

1. The stem mar- for marb- in the Annals of Inisfallen; 2. The treatment of guttural spirants by Anglo-Norman hands.

On the gen. pl. terminations -ann and -ach in dialects of Ulster and north Connacht.

The source of Christ’s ‘leaps’ in Donnchadh Mór Ó Dálaigh’s poem Rugais ocht léimeanna lúidh is Pope Gregory the Great (c. 540-604).

ad J. Carey, Ériu 39 (1988), 67-68.