Discusses texts belonging to SM, the tripartite division of the collection; proposes original order of texts and provides a brief discussion of the titles and contents of 47 individual tracts.
Discussion of (references from) Muirchú's Vita Sancti Patricii, Adomnán’s Vita Columbae, Tírechán’s Collectanea, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig, Feis Temro; on the relationship between Tara and Cashel.
1. Structure of the Cogad; 2. Use of annalistic sources in the Cogad; 3. The Cogad and AU compared; 4. The Cogad and AI compared; 5. The Cogad and the Clonmacnoise-group annals compared; 6. The Cogad and the extant annals compared: a summary; 7. Unique annalistic material in the Cogad.
Considers the frequency of the element Lugu- in toponomy; the coincidence in date of the festival of Lugnusad and the annual festival in hounour of the Emperor Augustus at Lugudunum (Lyons); and the similarity of the Lug’s epithet samildánach to Caesar’s characterisation of Mercury as omnium inventor artium.
1. Introduction; 2. The textual tradition of Rec. II [of TBC in LL]; Non-historical ro, dos-, ros-, rita-; 4. (Im)mus-; 5. The prefix im/fo; 6. The prefix con; 7. Con for co n-; 8. The origin of late preverbs and particles.
[1.] Ml. 49b7 (Refutes emendation of MS indoiss to indoíni (Thes. i, 151, n. e); proposes in[tóiss] doiss);
[2.] Ml. 49c13 (Refutes emendation of MS inmodi to innidmoidi (Thes. i, 152); proposes inmo[í]di.
1. On the Old Irish dative singular in *+mi;
2. ‘Yes’ and ‘no’: (a) taccu; (b) tó ‘yes’ (DIL s.v. 1 to); 3. Ir. uirghe f.; 4. tene, ten masc. > fem. ‘fire’;
5. teng, ting ‘tongue’; 6. for·érig. Cf. E. P. Hamp, in Ériu 53 (2003), pp. 185-186.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 34 (1998-2000), pp. 353-355.