[238] O’Curry: _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, II., p. 543.
[239] O’Curry: _Lectures on the MS. Materials of Irish History_, pp. 243, 583.
[240] Printed in _Silva Gadelica_ (ed. Standish O’Grady), Vol. I., pp. 296-305.
Stories of Brian and his sons are still current in the Gaelic-speaking districts of Ireland. (See _Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie_, Band I., pp. 477-492.) They are, however, more likely to be folk tales, in which the deeds of mythical heroes have been transferred to historical people, than sagas transmitted by oral tradition from generation to generation.
[241] _i.e._, “son of the honeyed words,” a poet.
[242] O’Curry: _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, II., pp. 130-135.
[243] Mathgamain was murdered at the instigation of King Ivarr of Limerick in 976.
[244] _War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill_, pp. 98-99.
[245] _O’Curry_, _op. cit._, II., p. 128.
[249] Cf. _Landnámabók_, II., ch. 16, etc.
[255] Finnur Jónsson, _op. cit._, II., pp. 187-188 (n); W. A. Craigie: _Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie_, Band I., p. 441.
[256] “This Gilli was the son of Jathguth, who was the son of Gilli, son of Bjathach (Ir. Blathach), son of King Kjarval of Ireland.” (_Thorsten’s Saga Síthu-Hallssonar_, appendix. _Draumr Thorsteins Síduhalssonar_, Ásmundarson’s Ed., pp. 26, 27.)
[261] See Kuno Meyer: _Learning in Ireland in the Fifth Century_ (Dublin, 1913).
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