[29] The Welsh passages unfortunately fail to show whether it was pronounced sidi or siđi: should it prove the latter, I should regard it as the Irish word borrowed. [↑]
[30] Skene’s Four Ancient Books of Wales, ii. 153–5, 181–2. [↑]
[31] For more about Picts and Pechts see some most instructive papers recently published by Mr. David MacRitchie, such as ‘Memories of the Picts’ in the Scottish Antiquary, last January, ‘Underground Dwellings’ in Scottish Notes and Queries, last March, and ‘Fairy Mounds’ in the Antiquary, last February and March. [↑]
[32] See p. 424 above, where, however, the object of the Ogams written on four twigs of yew has been misconceived. I think now that they formed simply so many letters of inquiry addressed by Dalán to other druids in different parts of Ireland. We seem to have here a ray of light on the early history of Ogam writing. [↑]
[33] See the Book of the Dun Cow, fo. 130b. [↑]
[34] See the Book of Leinster, fo. 117a. [↑]
[35] Corrguinigh occurs in the story of ‘The Second Battle of Moytura,’ where Stokes has rendered it ‘sorcerers’ in the Revue Celtique, xii. 77; and corrguinacht heads an article in O’Davoren’s Glossary, published in Stokes’ Three Irish Glossaries, p. 63, where it is defined as beth for leth cois ⁊ for leth laimh ⁊ for leth suil ag denam na glaime dicinn, ‘to be on one foot and with one hand and one eye doing the glám dicenn.’ The glám dicenn was seemingly the special elaboration of the art of making pied de nez, which we have tragically illustrated in the case of Caier. [↑]
[36] In Appendix B to The Welsh People, pp. 617–41. [↑]
[37] See Rosellini’s Monumenti dell’ Egitto (Pisa, 1832), vol. i. plates clvi, clx, and Maspero’s Histoire Ancienne (Paris, 1897), ii. 430. [↑]
[38] One may now consult Nicholson’s paper on ‘The Language of the Continental Picts’: see Meyer and Stern’s Zeitschrift, iii. 326–8, 331–2, and note especially his reference to Herodian, iii. 14, § 8. For Chortonicum see Die althochdeutschen Glossen (edited by Steinmeyer and Sievers), iii. 610; also my paper on ‘The Celts and the other Aryans of the P and Q Groups’ read before the Philological Society, February 20, 1891, p. 11. [↑]