Stories from Keating's History of Ireland - National Library of Scotland

,;NOTES 8726. Mogh Ruith, O.Ir. Mug Ruith, 'slave of the wheel.'triúcha chéad, or iriocha chéad, 'thirty hundreds,' is equivalent totuath, a petty state; cf. 23, 158. Giraldus Cambrensis identifies it withthe Welsh cantref, anglicized 'cantred,' lit. 'a hundred homesteads,'containing on an average thirty persons each. There are two explanationsof its origin. According to MacNeill, Early Irish Population-Groupsit originallv meant a force of 3,000 men, also called cath, and was thenapplied to the territory from which such a force could be levied. As aland measure, corresponding often to the modern barony, it would varyaccording to the population of the district. According to Thurneysen,Die irische Helden- und Konigsage, it meant a population-group of 3,000,and, in a military sense, the armed force which could be levied fromsuch a group. In this phrase triúcha or triocha is generally undeclinedcf. 23, 158; 30, 74; 31, 21.29. maille re, 'along with,' has here the secondary sense of 'by meansof, by,' as in 14, 11 ; 31, 117, 183.30. aieór (disyll.) dat. of aiéar ; cf. beól, sgeól. aieór is also used asnom. and gen.Zi- do ling . . . as, 'burst forth.'36. cuir 7 teannta, 'contracts and bonds.'38. i ngioll, 'as a guarantee.'12. THE FOUR COUNSELS2. re kucht mbdis d'fhaghdil, 'at the point of death.' The eclipsisafter the ace. ucht is regular.5. cheithre, in this word and in chúig the initial is generally aspirated.Cf. 20, ;4 22, 6.6. sochar, from so-cor, 'good terms,' hence 'advantage, profit.' Cf.dochar, 2, 12.8. moghaidh is the result of a twofold change of declension, mogh,gen. mogha (cf. 11, 24) becoming mogha, gen. moghadh, and this lastmaking a new gen. moghaidh.15. go gcuireadh, past subj., 'until he should send.'16. don bhaile, 'home,' now abhaile; cf. 29, 94.Uigis tuirse air, 'pretended to be grieved.'17. nach raibhe a bheag, 'that there was none.' Cf. 2, 54.23. anabaigh, 'unripe, premature, untimely,' acquired a sinistermeaning in phrases like bds anabaigh. It was also influenced by anba,''huge, monstrous.' Here it evidently means 'horrible.'33- gan fhromhadh, 'untried.' uaidh goes vfiih. nach rachadh.40. go ndiongnadh, cond. of do-nim, used here and in line 43 for pastsubj. go ndéanadh or go ndearnadh, 'that he might make.'