[Footnote 16:] There should be no hypermetric syllables, but I have been unable to avoid them.]
[Footnote 17:] Horae Hebraicae in Evangel. Matt., xv, 36, following the tract Berakoth.]
[Footnote 18:] O'Donnell's Life of St. Columba, ed. O'Kelleher, p. 120.]
[Footnote 19:] For the story of Coirpre, see Lismore Lives, ed. Stokes, preface p. xvi; Revue celtique, xxvi, 368. For the story of Ambacuc, see Silua Gadelica, no. xxxi; Eriu, vol. vi, p. 159.]
[Footnote 20:] A fully illustrated description of this relic by Mr. E.C.R. Armstrong will be found in Journal, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. xlix, p. 132.]
[Footnote 21:] Book of the Dun Cow, printed in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, iii, 218.]
[Footnote 22:] Féilire Oengusso, Henry Bradshaw Society edition, p. 12.]
[Footnote 23:] Revue celtique, xv, at p. 491.]
[Footnote 24:] I should here have quoted as a parallel the oft-described Indian rope-trick, which is alleged to be a hypnotic feat, had I not been recently assured by a relative who knows India well that no one has yet been discovered who has actually seen this trick performed, and that it is probably nothing more than a piece of folk-lore.]
[Footnote 25:] See his important series of papers, Ueber directe Handelsverbindungen Westgalliens mit Irland im Altertum und früher Mittelalter, published in Sitzungsberichte der königliche preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1909, vol. i.]