Examines the use of this compound in early Irish literature and proposes the translation ‘with a sinister eye’.

Argues that the diversity of titles used for the Hebridean rulers (and others) during this period is a literary device and is not interpreted politically.

Review article of: Ptolemy: towards a linguistic atlas of the earliest Celtic place-names of Europe; papers from a workshop, sponsored by the British Academy, in the Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 11-12 April 1999, ed. by D. N. Parsons and P. Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2000).