[346] Compare Zimmer’s criticism, _Celtic Church_, 64-5. [347] Stokes (_Urkeltischer Sprachschatz_, 198) and Rhŷs seek a Celtic etymology for Magonus. Rhŷs treats it as a derivation from Goidelic _magus_ (whence the Irish _mug_, “servant”), meaning perhaps originally a “boy.” [348] His day was Nov. 27; _Mart. of Donegal_, p. 319. [349] Dichu of Saul appears in the _Martyrology_ of Donegal under April 29 (p. 114). [350] Instances are collected by Professor Rhŷs in _Proceedings of R.S.A.I._ Pt. i. vol. xxxii. p. 5; to which add the Donard stone (_ib._ Pt. ii. vol. xxxiii. p. 114). [351] This comes from Muirchu’s Irish source for the legend. See above, App. A, ii. 3. [352] For _scriptum erat_ I would read _scriptum quod scriptum erat_. [353] _sine honore_, supposed to mean “without recognition of my episcopal title.” [354] _male uidimus faciem designati nudato nomine_ (365₂₉). This gives much better sense than the ordinary rendering, which refers _designati_ to Patrick, and _nud. nom._ to the suppression of the episcopal title. I observe that Mr. White, though he does not adopt it in his translation, gives it as an alternative interpretation in his note. [355] Another petition (which in _V. Trip._, p. 116, appears in connexion with Mount Crochan) is added in V₃, c. 88. See Bury, _Trans. of R.I.A._ xxxii. C. Part iii. p. 223. [356] I retract the date “_c._ A.D. 850” in my note †, _op. cit._ p. 218. I have abandoned a view of the relations of the Nennian MSS. which prompted me to assign this date. [357] The Armagh tradition, connecting Columba with St. Patrick’s tomb, is referred to in the _Additions to Tírechán_ (see Appendix C, 19). [358] I have shown that this was possibly the original corruption, “Tradition of Muirchu’s Text,” p. 196. [359] _haut_ has been restored for -cha _ut_ of the Brussels MS. The restoration, obviously right, is borne out by Probus (Colgan, _Trias Thaum._ 47), who here transcribes Muirchu. See Stokes, _ad loc._ [360] Probus here, using another but related MS. of Muirchu, gives _Nentriae prouinciae_. [361] Mr. Nicholson’s explanation that it is a corruption of _Britanniae_ will hardly be accepted. Palaeographically it has no probability; it was hardly necessary, and we should rather expect _Britanniarum_. [362] It is obvious how readily the corruption rose from _bannauētabernie_ or -_urnie_. [363] Stokes, _Tripartite_, Introduction, p. cxxxvii. He refers to Gregory of Tours, _Hist. Franc._ x. 28, _in uico Nemptudoro_. Skene (_Celtic Scotland_, ii. 436, n.) identifies Nemthur with _Neutur_ in the Black Book of Caermarthen (_Four Ancient Books of Wales_, vol. ii. p. 3). [364] It is perhaps hardly necessary to observe that Ammianus when he says that Theodosius _instaurabat urbes_ does not refer to Valentia (which he has not yet mentioned) in particular, but to Britain in general.