[205] Reeves, Wm., Adamnan, pp. 103, 107.

[206] Op. cit., pp. 79–80.

[207] Meyer, Kuno, Old Irish Poetry. See several examples; also Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, II., pp. 290, 293, 294, 296.

[208] De Jubainville, H. d’Arbois, Littérature Celtique, I., 384.

[209] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., pp. 418, 419; Hull, E., op. cit. I., 189.

[210] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., 417.

[211] O’Curry, Eugene, Manners and Customs, I., 92. MS. Materials, p. 50.

[212] The Irish word fithcheal is usually translated chess.

[213] Ancient Laws of Ireland, II., 349. Also pp. 153, 1616.

[214] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., pp. 418, 426. For Fosterage, see II., p. 14.