[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.

[246] Ibid., II., p. 125.

[247] Landnámabók, I., ch. 19.

[248] Kormak’s Saga, ch. 19.

[249] Cf. Landnámabók, II., ch. 16, etc.

[250] Landnámabók, V., ch. 15.