The name of Alban occurs in this form in the nominative also in the Prophecy of St. Berchan throughout, as ‘Dia mo lan Alban is Eire’ (_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 79); Ba ard Albain chathair bhinn (_ib._ p. 87); Mescfaidh Albain ima chenn (_ib._ p. 89); Ba lomlan Albain o a la (_ib._ p. 91, etc.). So also the form of Alban appears as the name of Scotland in all the Welsh documents, and the Pictish Chronicle, which is evidently translated from a Gaelic original, has Albania, which must have been formed from Alban. The affectation of using the form Alba in the English rendering of the name was first introduced by the late Dr. O’Donovan, and has been adopted without much consideration by some Scottish writers; but the late Professor O’Curry, an equally accurate Irish scholar, invariably used the form Alban, and the author prefers retaining this conventional form. Footnote 3: Haec autem (Hibernia) proprie patria Scotorum est.—Bede, _Hist. Ec._ B. i. c. i. Footnote 4: The first proposition is clearly established by the following catena of authorities:— SIXTH CENTURY. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS. _Origines._ Scotia eadem et Ibernia, proxima Britanniae insula.... Unde et Ibernia dicta. Scotia autem quod ab Scotorum gentibus colitur appellata.—Lib. xiv. c. vi. THEODORIC. _Vita S. Rumoldi_, 1st July.—_Surius_, tom. vii. p. 563. Movit hoc ab ortu Ægyptus et India ad occasum alter pene orbis Britannia cum adjacente Scotia. Tota insula Scotiae mirabatur. SEVENTH CENTURY. RAVENNATIS ANONYMI _Cosmographia_. Finitur autem ipsa Britannia a facie septentrionalis (habet) insulam Scotiam. Iterum in eodem oceano occidentali post ipsam magnam Britanniam ... est insula maxima quae dicitur Ibernia, quae, ut dictum est, et Scotia appellatur. ADAMNANUS _in vita S. Columbae_. De Scotia ad Britanniam ... enavigavit.—Pref. sec. In Scotia et in Britannia.—Lib. i. cap. i. De Scotia ad Britanniam ... adduxit.—Lib. i. cap. xxix. Per totam nostram Scotiam et omnium totius orbis insularum maximam Britanniam.—Lib. iii. cap. xxiv. EIGHTH CENTURY. BÆDA. _Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum._ Haec autem (Hibernia) proprie patria Scottorum est.—Lib. i. cap. i. Dominis carissimis fratribus episcopis, vel abbatibus per universam Scottiam, Laurentius, Mellitus, et Justus episcopi.—(Letter addressed to ‘Scotti qui Hiberniam insulam Britanniae proximam incolunt.’)—Lib. ii. cap. iv. Columba presbyter de Scottia venit Brittaniam.—Lib. v. cap. xxiv. _Martyrologium._ De Scotia insula venientes. 13th November. NINTH CENTURY. HUCBALDUS, _in vita S. Lebuini_. Britannia oceani insula, interfuso mari a toto orbe divisa ... cui adjacet Scotia sive Hybernia.—_Surius_, tom. iii. p. 27. VITA S. WIRONIS.