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 The Irish '' Mirabilici'. < 315

less corrupted by the scribes of the various MSS., are, with a few exceptions, all of them Norse phonetic renderings of spoken Irish of the thirteenth century. They are not based upon written forms, either Irish or Latin. The following comparisons will show this :

BlaAma (miswritten BlaAina) is the Irish Bladuia in Sliab Bladiiicii, now Slieve Bloom, where Norse d represents Irish infected d, as in Maddci^r — Ir. Maddadh ; see Stokes, Revue Celtique, iii, p, 189.

LogheeJiag is miswritten, I think, for LogJiccJiag or Log- necJiag = Ir. Locli n-Ec/iach, now Lough Neagh, g standing for the guttural ch, as in Logri = Loch Ribh, now Lough Ree, where the final bk is silent.

LogJiaerne, perhaps miswritten for Lognaerne = LocJi n- ' Eirne, now Lough Erne.

Glinnelaga (miswritten Glumelagd) is the oblique case of the Ir. Glcnn-dd-locha or -lacha, now Glendalough, showing g for the guttural ch^ and preserving the final a of the genitive dual.

InJiisgluer, perhaps for Innisgluere = Ir. Inis Gluaire.

Inisclodran = Ir. Inis Clothrann.

Clocna, perhaps for Chien = Cluain {viacauioise).

Teuiere, corruptly Te7ii in one place, where the ending has been omitted through C7-, ' is', following immediately upon it, = Ir. Temraig, the oblique case of Teuiair, 'Tara'. The infected final g is silent, but whether in this case in is historical spelling, or is to denote the nasal quality of the preceding vowel, I cannot say. The medial e looks like an irrational vowel developed between two consonants.

LogJiica (miswritten LoycJia in one MS.) and KertinagJi I cannot explain ; Kewimis is the Latinised form of Ir. Cainihghin, w being used to render the sound of ;;///, after which the gJi is silent. Clefsan for Clessan I have explained above.

My conclusion, then, shortly is this. The account of Ireland in the Speculum Regale is not derived from any written sources, but entirely based upon oral information