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526 Ruith, mentioned on previous occasions (p. 211), and Lóch Mór, one of the most formidable foes killed by Cúchulainn on the Táin. The pagan formula was continued by the Irish in the names of their saints in Christian times, as, for example, in Mo-Gobnáit, Mo-Bíóc, and dozens of others. In point of etymology, Duben is obscure and not improbably of Ivernian origin; but it is exceptional that the v of the ogmic form Dovinia or Dovvinias should have been retained, written b, in the later forms, as the general rule would require its complete disappearance. If you will look at the map, you will observe that