[272] “Erat enim vir bonus et sapiens, et scientia Scripturarum nobilissime instructus.”
[273] “Edoctus est omnes liberales, sacras et asceticas disciplinas, linguas etiam Hebraicam et Graecam; et quicquid patria lingua (in qua tunc pleraeque scientiae et Dryadum quae non fuerant damnata dogmata) scriptum est vel artium vel legum vel historiarum.”
[274] Book II., c. 45.
[275] See Petrie’s Tara, page 147.
[276] “Dedit legem innocentum populis.”
[277] The story of Adamnan’s carrying his mother on his back originated in his well-known filial piety. Vol. III.
[278] Up to the tenth century Britannia included Scotland.
[279] See Haddan and Stubbs, vol. ii., part 1, p. 120.
[280] Four Masters, A.D. 1034.
[281] Decoro vultu, crine nitenti, ultra communem valentiam hominum, formâ erat speciosus, divinus ac humanis litteris et eloquentiâ erat praeditus.—Vita.