Peritia. Journal o f the Medieval Academy o f Ireland

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1 Peritia Journal o f the Medieval Academy o f Ireland

2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Medieval Academy of Ireland The Medieval Academy of Ireland is an organisation of medievalists devoted to the advancement of medieval studies in the broadest sense of that term, including history, languages, law, archaeology, and ancillary disciplines. Peritia is usually published yearly. Articles for publication should be submitted (in hard copy and digital form by attachment) to Professor Donnchadh Ó Corrain, Department of History, University College, National University of Ireland, Cork; ocorrain@ucc.ie. Books for review should be sent to Professor Daibhi Ó Cróinin, School of History, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie. Review copy should be submitted in hard copy and digital form. Orders (current and for back issues) and subscriptions should be directed to: Brepols Publishers, Begijnhof 67, B-2300 Turnhout, Belgium. URL CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE G. W. S. Barrow, Edinburgh; Jacqueline Borsje, Amsterdam; Peter Brown, Berkeley; Francis John Byrne, Dublin; A. A. M. Duncan, Glasgow; Jacques Fontaine, Paris-Sorbonne; W. H. C. Frend, Glasgow; Louis Holtz, Paris; David Howlett, Oxford; Maurice Keen, Oxford; Mairtin Mac Conmara, Dublin; Wolfgang Meid, Innsbruck; Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha, Galway; Roger E. Reynolds, Toronto; P. H. Sawyer, Trondheim; Richard Sharpe, Oxford; David Wilson, Isle of Man; Herwig Wolfram, Vienna. Peritia strongly supports intellectual freedom and freedom of academic expression. As a corollary, the opinions expressed by writers and reviewers in any issue of the journal are not necessarily those of the editors or publishers. Peritia offers a right of reply. Papers published in Peritia have been subjected to rigorous peer review. Unsolicited reviews are not accepted. D/2011/0095/213 ISBN Printed in Belgium

3 PERITIA JOURNAL OF THE MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF IRELAND VOLUM E Editor D O N N C H A D H Ó CORRÄIN Review Editor DÄIBHI Ó C RÓ IN IN MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF IRELAND BREPOLS

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5 CONTENTS INSULAR LATIN Richard Sharpe: Books from Ireland, fifth to ninth centuries 1 55 Michael J. Enright: Prophets and princes on Isles of Ocean DavidHowlett: Versus cuiusdam Scotti de alphabeto David Howlett: Two mathematical poets David Howlett: Iohannis celsi rimans misteria caeli David Howlett: Hiberno-Latin poems on the Eusebian Canons HISTORICAL PROBLEMS Jacqueline Borsje: O n love charms in early medieval Ireland Katja Ritari: The image of Brigit as a saint: reading the Latin Lives Colmân Etchingham: The battle o f Cenn Fuait, M artin Holland: Decreta o f late eleventh-century Irish bishops-elect COMPUTISTICA Immo Warntjes: A newly discovered prologue of AD 699 to the Easter table of Victorius of Aquitaine MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY Tomâs Ó Carragâin: Archaeology of early medieval baptism: St Mullins, Co Carlow REVIEWS Diarmuid Ó R iain/ Stefan Weber, Iren a u f dem Kontinent. Das Leben des Marianus Scottus von Regensburg und die Anfänge der irischen Schottenklöster, Christian Lauronson-Rosaz/ Christophe Archan, Les chemins du jugement: procédure et science du droit dans l Irlande médiévale, Leofranc Holford-Strevens/ Caitlin Corning, The Celtic and Roman traditions: conflict and consensus in the early medieval church, Karen Jankulak/ Joseph-Claude Poulin, L hagiographie bretonne du haut moyen âge: répertoire raisonné, Ian W ood/agnès Graceffa, Les historiens et la question franque: le peuplement franc et les Mérovingiens dans l'historiographie française et allemande des XIXe XXe siècles, Colin Ireland/ Allen J.

6 Frantzen & John Hines (ed), Cædmon s Hymn and material culture in the world o f Bede, Colin Ireland/ Alastair M innis & Jane Roberts (ed), Text, image, interpretation: studies in Anglo-Saxon literature and its Insular context in honour o f Eamonn Ó Carragäin, Colin Ireland/ Catherine E. Karkov & fnicholas Howe (ed), Conversion and colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, Paul Russell/ Claudia di Sciacca, Finding the right words: Isidore s Synonyma in Anglo Saxon England, John Carey / Brian M urdoch, The apocryphal Adam and Eve in medieval Europe: vernacular translations and adaptations o f the Vita Adae et Evae, Patricia M. Rumsey/ Padraig Ó Riain, Feastdays o f the saints: a history o f Irish martyrologies, Thomas O Loughlin/ James Lewis, Paths o f exile: narratives o f St. Columba and the praxis o f Iona, Nerys Ann Jones/ Joseph Falaky Nagy & Lesley Ellen Jones (ed), Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition: a Festschrift fo r Patrick K. Ford, G. R. Isa a c /Helen Fulton (ed), Medieval Celtic literature and society, Padraic M oran/ Rolf Baumgarten (comp), Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (ed), Electronic bibliography o f Irish linguistics and literature, , Donnchadh Ó Corräin/Kelten am Rhein: Akten des dreizehnten internationalen Keltologiecongresses, 23. bis 27. Juli in Bonn: i, E thnizität und Romanisierung, ed. Gabriele Uelsberg & M ichael Schmauder; ii, Sprachen und Literaturen, ed. Stefan Zimmer, Colin Ireland/ Catherine E. Karkov & George Hardin Brown (ed), Anglo-Saxon styles, Colin Ireland/ Joyce Tally Lionarons (ed), Old English literature in its manuscript context, Colin Ireland/ Benjamin C. W ithers & Jonathan Wilcox (ed), Naked before God: uncovering the body in Anglo-Saxon England, Frances McCormack/ Julia Boffey & A. S. G. Edwards, A new index o f Middle English verse, Michael Clanchy / Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela o f Blois: countess and lord (c ), Frances M ccorm ack/ Alixe Bovey, Monsters and grotesques in medieval manuscripts, G. R. Isaac/ Iestyn Daniel, Marged Haycock, Dafydd Johnston, Jenny Rowland (ed), Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraegyr oesoedd canol, G. R. Isaac / Joseph P. Clancy, M edieval Welsh poems. Gwyn Thomas, Dafydd ap Gwilym: his poems. Barry Lewis, Welsh poetry and English p ilgrimage: Gruffudd ap Maredudd and the Rood o f Chester, Gerald Power/ D arren M cg ettigan, Red Hugh O Donnell and the N ine Years War, Pädraig L enihan/ Kevin McKenny, The Laggan Army in Ireland : the landed interests, political ideologies and military campaigns o f the north-west Ulster settlers, Acknowledgement. The editor is grateful to Nick Hogan, Dept of Archaeology, University College Cork, for essential technical work on the graphics.

7 ABBREVIATIONS ( These abbreviations are used without any further explanation) AASS AB AC ACT AFM AH AI AI (facs) ALC ALI AR ASC AT AU1 AU2 BB BHL BCLL BL CCCM Acta Sanctorum... a Sociis Bollandianis (Antwerp, Paris, & Brussels: ; repr. Brussels, ) Annals of Boyle= The annals in Cotton MS Titus A. XXV (ed. & tr. A. Martin Freeman, Paris 1929) Annals o f Clonmacnoise (ed. Denis Murphy, Dublin 1896) Annals o f Connacht (ed. & tr. A. Martin Freeman, Dublin 1944) Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals o f the kingdom o f Ireland by the Four Masters (ed. & tr. J. O Donovan, 7 vols, Dublin ) Analecta Hymnica Medii Aeui (ed. G. M. Dreves & C. Blume, 55 vols, Leipzig ; repr. Frankfurt/Main ) Annals o f Inisfallen (ed. & tr. Sean Mac Airt, Dublin 1951) Annals o f Inisfallen, reproduced in facsimile (ed. R. I. Best & Eoin Mac- Neill, Dublin 1933) Annals o f Loch Cé (ed. & tr. W. M. Hennessy, 2 vols, RS 54, London 1871) Ancient Laws o f Ireland (transcr. & tr. by Eugene O Curry & John O Donovan; prepared for press by W. N. Hancock, Thaddeus O Mahony, Alexander Richey & Robert Atkinson, 6 vols, Dublin & London ) Dermot Gleeson & Sean Mac Airt (ed), The Annals of Roscrea, Proc Roy Ir Acad (C) 59 (1958) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Annals of Tigernach (ed. & tr. Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique 16 (1895) ; 17 (1896) 6-33, , ; 18 (1897) 9-59, , ; repr. (with corr.), 2 vols, Felinfach 1993) Annals o f Ulster (ed. & tr. W. M. Hennessy & Bartholomew Mac Carthy, 4 vols, Dublin ) Annals o f Ulster (to A.D. 1131) i (ed. & tr. Sean Mac Airt & Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Dublin 1983) [all published] Book o f Ballymote (facsimile, ed. Robert Atkinson, Dublin 1887) Bibliotheca hagiographica latina (ed. Socii Bollandiani, 3rd ed. Brussels 1959) Michael Lapidge & Richard Sharpe, Bibliography o f Celtic-Latin literature (Dublin 1985) Book o f Leinster (ed. R. I. Best, O. J. Bergin, M. A O Brien & Anne O Sullivan, 6 vols, Dublin ) [continuous pagination] Corpus Christianorum continuatio medieualis (Turnhout 1971 )

8 v iii CCH CCSG CCSL CGH CIH CLA Clavis CSEL CS DACL DB DBS DDC DHGE DIB DIL DTC EEMF EETS FA1 FA2 Gams GCS GOI Collectio canonum hibemensis (Herrmann Wasserschleben (ed), Die irische Kanonensammlung, 2nd ed. Leipzig 1885) Corpus Christianorum series graeca (Turnhout 1977 ) Corpus Christianorum series latina (Turnhout 1953 ) Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae i (ed. M. A. O Brien, Dublin 1962) Corpus iuris hibernici (ed. D. A. Binchy, 6 vols, Dublin 1978) Codices latini antiquiores (ed. E. A. Lowe, 13 parts & supplement, Oxford ) E. Dekkers & E. Gaar, Clavis patrum latinorum (3nd ed. Steenbrugge 1995) Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna 1866 ) Chronicon Scottorum (ed. & tr. W. M. Hennessy, RS 46, London 1866) Dictionnaire d archéologie chrétienne et de la liturgie (ed. F. Cabrol & H. Leclerq, Paris ) Dictionnaire de la bible (ed. F. Vigouroux, Paris ) Supplement (ed. L. Pirot et al. Paris 1928 ) to Dictionnaire de la bible Dictionnaire de droit canonique (ed. A. Villien, E. Magnin, A. Amanieu & R. Naz, Paris ) Dictionnaire d histoire et de géographie ecclesiastiques (ed. A. Baudrillart, A. de Meyer, E. van Cauwenbergh & R. Aubert, Paris 1912 ) Dictionary o f Irish biography (ed. James McGuire & James Quinn, 9 vols, Cambridge, 2009) Royal Irish Academy, Dictionary o f the Irish language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (Dublin ; repr. [in compact ed. with continuous pagination] Dublin 1983) Dictionnaire de théologie catholique (ed. E. Vacant, E. Mangenot & E. Amann, Paris ) Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile (Copenhagen 1951 ) Early English Texts Society Annals o f Ireland: three fragments (ed. & tr. John O Donovan, Dublin 1860) Fragmentary Annals o f Ireland (ed. & tr. J. N. Radner, Dublin 1978) P.-B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae (Ratisbon , repr. Leipzig 1931) Griechische christliche Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (Berlin-Leipzig 1897 ) Rudolf Thurneysen, A grammar o f Old Irish (Dublin 1946)

9 ix HBS HE Hib ITS Kenney, Sources Lec LEIA LL LTK LU LxMA Mansi MartD MartG MartO MartT MGH M GH AA M GH SRG ns M GH SRG us M GH SRM M GH SS M GH LL M GH PLAC MIA N H I Henry Bradshaw Society for editing rare liturgical texts (London 1891 ) Venerable Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum Collectio canonum hibernensis (see CCH) Irish Texts Society (London 1899 ) James F. Kenney, Sources for the early history o f Ireland: ecclesiastical (Columbia NY 1929; repr. Dublin & New York 1966 etc.) Book o f Lecan (facsimile, ed. Kathleen Mulchrone, Dublin 1937) Joseph Vendryes, E. Bachellery & P. Y. Lambert, Lexique étymologique de l irlandais ancien (Dublin & Paris 1959 ) Book o f Leinster (facsimile, ed. Robert Atkinson, Dublin 1880) Lexikon fü r Theologie und Kirche (2nd ed., ed. J. Hufer & K. Rahner, Freiburg i. B ) Lebor na huidre: Book o f the Dun Cow (ed. R. I. Best & O. J. Bergin, Dublin 1929) Lexikon des Mittelaters (ed. Robert Auty et al. 9 vols, Munich, Zurich & Stuttgart, ; repr. Munich 2003) J. D. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio (Paris ; repr. Graz ) Martyrology o f Donegal (tr. John O Donovan; ed. James Henthorn Todd & William Reeves, Dublin 1864) Martyrology o f Gorman (ed. & tr. Whitley Stokes, HBS 9, London 1895) Martyrology o f Oengus the Culdee (ed. & tr. Whitley Stokes, HBS 29, London 1905; repr. Dublin 1984) Martyrology o f Tallaght (ed. R. I. Best & Hugh Jackson Lawlor, HBS 68, London 1931) Monumenta Germaniae Historica M GH Auctores Antiquissimi M GH Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum nova series M GH Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum M GH Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum M GH Scriptores (in folio) M GH Leges (in folio) M GH Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini Miscellaneous Irish annals (ed. & tr. S. Ó hinnse, Dublin 1947) A new history o f Ireland, ed. T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, Art Cosgrove, Daibhf Ó Cróinfn et al. (Oxford )

10 x OG PG PL PLS RE RS SC SLH TP TU UM Edmund Hogan, Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (Dublin 1910, repr. Dublin 1994) Patrologia Graeca (ed. J. P. Migne, 161 vols, Paris ) Patrologia Latina (ed. J. P. Migne, 221 vols, Paris ) Patrologiae Latinae supplementum (ed. A. Hamman & L. Guillaumin, 5 vols, Paris ) Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (2nd ed., ed. Georg Wissowa et al., Stuttgart 1894 ) Rolls Series (Chronicles & Memorials of Great Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages, 1 99, London ) Sources chrétiennes (Paris 1941 ) Scriptores Latini Hiberniae (Dublin 1955 ) John Strachan & Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.), Thesaurus palaeohibernicus (2 vols & supp. Cambridge & Halle a. S , repr. in 2 vols, Dublin 1975) Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig 1882 ) Book o f Ui Maine (facsimile, ed. R. A. S. Macalister, Dublin 1942) Journal titles (if abbreviated) are usually abbreviated in accordance with the International list of periodical title word abbreviations, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 1077: 1990 and 4: 1997.