[Footnote 36:] Sic MSS. We should read "came from heaven,">[
FOOTNOTES, ANNOTATIONS TO THE FOREGOING LIVES
[Footnote 1:] For brevity we shall refer to certain books, frequently quoted in these Annotations, by the following symbols—
LL. Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore, ed. Stokes.
CS. Codex Salmaticensis (Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae), ed. de Smedt and de Backer.
VTP. Vita Tripartita Patricii, ed. Stokes.
VSH. Plummer's Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae.
TT. Trias Thaumaturga (Colgan's collection of the lives of SS. Patrick, Brigid, and Colum Cille).]
[Footnote 2:] There is a different version, which need not be given here, in the Martyrology of Oengus (Henry Bradshaw Society edition, p. 204).]
[Footnote 3:] Mentioned in Annals of Ulster, anno 1166, Annals of Loch Cé, anno 1189, Annals of the Four Masters, annis 1121, 1166.]
[Footnote 4:] A collection (in Irish) of the traditions of this person will be found in Targaireacht Bhriain ruaidh uí Chearbháin, by Micheál ó Tiomhánaidhe (Dublin, 1906).]
[Footnote 5:] The passage would then read thus—Rothircan Bec mac De condebairt andsin—
"A maic in tsaeir, cot clasaib, cot coraib,
It casair chaeim, cot cairpthib, cot ceolaib."
The transposition has probably been caused by the error of some scribe who copied first the parts of the two lines preceding the caesura.]