[410] Tracia being an error for Frācia.
[411] The prose list in the Book of Ballymote describes both Duachs as Tenga Uma (and as slain by Muirchertach), but in the case of the first Duach Galach is written above.
[412] Dai Galach is mentioned as Brian’s youngest son, and destined to reign in Connaught, in the text printed, with translation, by Dr. W. Stokes, from the Yellow Book of Lecan (col. 898), concerning the sons of Eochaid Muigmedoin, in Rev. Celt. xxiv. (1903), p. 182.
[413] The notice is discussed by Todd, St. Patrick, pp. 469-70, but he does not attempt any explanation of probatus est, and by omitting the first part of the notice altogether he shows that he did not apprehend the significant association of the probatio with Leo.
[414] Nostra provincia is ecclesiastical Ireland, or north Ireland—not a particular district or kingdom.
[415] The Vit. Trip. (Part 3, p. 238) places the visit to Rome after the foundation of Armagh. This order seems to be simply an inference from the fact that the relics which Patrick got at Rome were brought to Armagh.
[416] The references are to Gundlach’s ed., Epp. Mer. et Kar. Aeui, vol. i.
[417] Mr. Warren rightly rejects the pregnant meaning found in this passage by Döllinger (Liturgy and Ritual, p. 39).
[418] difficiles is in three MSS., including the Coloniensis (eighth century): it is clearly wanted, and (if there was not some stronger and fuller phrase in the original canon) it has a very pregnant meaning.
[419] I believe that the silence of Cummian in his letter to Segéne (Migne, P.L. 87, 970) has been urged as an objection to the authenticity of the canon. But the argument from silence in such a case as this has no cogency. It is quite possible that he was not aware of the canon.