Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

fragments are in the same handwriting — the scribe's name
being Mael[s]echlainn. He may have lived in the fourteenth
or the early part of the fifteenth century.
Three fragments of another copy of this version are pre-
served in the Book of Leinster, pp. 397 — 408. The first
(pp. 397—407) corresponds with Dares from the end of c. II
to the beginning of c. X; the second (p. 403 col. a, from line 1
to line 18 inclusive) with the end of Dares' c. XVIII and the first
half of his c. XIX; the third (p. 403, col. a, from line 19 to p. 408
inclusive) with the end of Dares' c. XX down to the beginning
of his chapter XXXI. This copy is not older than the sixteenth
century, and is so corrupt that it is not worth while to give
all its various lections. Where its readings are better than
those of H. 2. 17, I have inserted them in the text: where they
merely deserve notice, I have given them as footnotes marked
„L". The portion of this later copy which corresponds with
Dares' cc. XXV—XXX is printed in Togail Troi, Calcutta,
1881, pp. 52— 56.
In editing the present text I have punctuated: contractions
have been extended, but the extensions are expressed by italics:
proper names have been spelt with initial capitals: infected f
and s when omitted by the scribe have been supplied in brackets:
the transported t and n have been separated by a hyphen from
words beginning with vowels: hyphens have also been employed
in the case of infixed pronouns and assimilation of the n of
the prepositions in and con: an apostrophe has been used
where a vowel has been dropt; and, lastly, the article, possess-
sive pronouns, verb substantive, prepositions, conjunctions and
negative particles have been separated from the words to which,
in the manuscript, they are respectively prefixed. In other
respects, for instance, the use of v for u, the manuscript has
been followed as closely as possible.
Oxford, August 1882.
w. s.