[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.