Legends of Saints & Sinners. Collected and Translated from the Irish

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[20] Literally "of the world."

[21] Literally "limb."

[22] See my "Literary History of Ireland," p. 351.

[23] i.e., Clonmacnoise.

[24] Literally "especially."

[25] In West Clare.

[26] i.e., Clonmacnoise.

[27] Apparently "the little grey one," from "liath"-grey; pronounced "Lay-heen." I have made her feminine and called her "she" in the translation, but the Irish makes her masculine.

[28] i.e., one of its own young eagles, or nestlings.

[29] Now Ben Bulben in Co. Sligo.