[285] Sullivan, Sir Edward, The Book of Kells, p. 24.
[286] Sullivan, Sir Edward, op. cit. p. 25.
[287] Or the juice of “green skinned holly,” Meyer, Kuno, Ancient Irish Poetry, p. 87.
[288] Keller, Ferdinand, Ulster Journal of Archæology, Old Series, VIII., p. 222.
[289] Stokes, Margaret, Early Christian Ireland, Article ix.
[290] See Abbot’s Reproduction of the Book of Kells, Plate xxxiv.; also reproduced in Sir Arthur Sullivan’s The Book of Kells.
[291] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., p. 480, illustration i., 481.
[292] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., pp. 477–478.
[293] See Chapter III.; also Four Masters, I., passim.
[294] Reeves, Wm., Adamnan, Preface, pp. xxi.–xxii.