Epistola Albini Magistri ad Colcum Lectorem in Scotia—
Benedicto Magistro, et Pio Patri Colcuo Alcuine humilis levita salutem.
[224] Acta Sanctorum, page 379.
[225] Wars of the G. G. Introduction, xiv.
[226] Four Masters, A.D. 840.
[227] Professor Stokes repeats these mistakes in his Lectures—Celtic Church, page 200. Keating, however calls Cormac Archbishop of Cashel, which he certainly was not.
[228] At his conference with Niall at Clonfert, Felim sat in the seat of the abbots as a token of his superiority over Niall, not as a bishop.
[229] It is not unlikely that his family resided at Cluain Ui Braoin, now Cloonybrian, near Boyle.
[230] See Lectures, page 127.
[231] It was first published in 1807 by M. Walckenaer from two MSS. in the Imperial Library of Paris. In 1814, M. Letronne produced a still more learned and accurate edition, in which he shows the advantages that scholars may derive from a careful study of Dicuil’s work. It is entitled: Recherches Geographiques, et Critiques sur Le Livre “De Mensura Orbis Terrarum,” composé en Irlande au Commencement du Neuvième siècle par Dicuil.
[232] It might be rendered a trustworthy brother.