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

100 NOTES98. gan chor gan choimirce, 'without surety or safeguard.''104. thdngais im theach-sa. To come to a man's house ' was atechnical expression for to do homage to him, acknowledge him asliege lord.108. nd cuir-se im aghaidh, 'do not thou oppose me.'113. don turns so, 'this time.'116. do bhronn sé, &c. The meaning of this is clear from a passage inCaithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh, quoted by O'Donovan, Misc. Celt. Sac,pp. 177-8: 'It was a custom of old when any king of a tricha chéd orprovince took a gift or wages from another ruler, that with the wage heundertook submission and service, yielding to him as to his lord.'According to Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh Mael Sechlainn's men refused tolead the steeds, and Mael Sechlainn bestowed them upon Brian's sonMurchadh.122. Ó nEachach is the regular gen. of Ui Eachach, lit. ' the descendantsof Eochu,' but in the following line we have Uibh gCinnsealaigh, inwhich the dat. pi. is used for gen. and eclipses like a gen. (still moreirregular is go hUibh gCinnsealaigh, 31, 40). Place-names often becomestereotyped in the dat., which is more used than the other cases. Cf.Uibh Rdthach, Uibh Laoghaire, Corcaigh, Cionn tSdile, &c.128. brdighdeadh (= brdighde, line 102), gen. pi. of brdgha or brdighe.129. /hear Mumhan : the initial of the gen. pi. fear is aspirated becausethe phrase is equivalent to a proper name.132. Bóraimhe or Bóramha is a place-name in gen. sg. ; cf. 7, 2, note.142. aimhdheóin, neg. of deóin, still commonly written, but the formactually pronounced is ainneóin, from the Mid.Ir. by-form aindeóin.28. THE CAUSE OF THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF, a.d. 10149. Sliabh an Bhogaigh : it is not certain whether this is a place-name,or 'the slope (or moorland) of the bog.' The GJ. version has i n-aghaidhaoirde i gCoill Ghaibhle.18. 'na fiadhtiaise, 'in front of her.'23. Conaing: his father Donn Cuan was a brother of Brian. In thenext line, 'or according to others it was the successor of Caoimhghin,'refers probably to Conaing Ua Cearbhaill, airchinneach Glinne dd locha,who died in 1031.27. beirt dia rugadh cluiche air, 'a move by which a game was wonagainst him.' beirt, old ace. of beart; cf. 6, 6.28. ddr briseadh dhiobh, 'by reason of which they were defeated.'30. md thugas, 'if I gave,' 'supposing I did give.' Distinguish dddtugainn, 'if I should give,' or 'if I had given.'33. a shldn sm fúthaibh, 'I defy them to do that,' lit. 'the defiance