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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 10 AN OLD PliOPHECY. CBOSS OF DONALD LONGdHANKS. FOUR PRIORS. iieachd bliadna roimh'n bhraa Thig muir thar EiRI.l re ami tra' Sthar Ile ghuirm ghlais Ach Snamhaidh I Cholum clairich. Which is to this effect: Seven years before the end of the world, a deluge shall drown the nations: the sea, at one tide, shall cover Ireland and the green headed flay; but Columba's isle shall swim above the flood. But of these celebrated tombs we could discover nothing more than certain slight remains, that were built in a ridged form, and arched within; but the inscriptions were lost. These are called lomaire nan righ, or, The ridge of the kings. Among these stones were found two with Gaelic inscriptions, and the form of a cross carved on each: the words on one were, Cros Domhail fat'asick, or, The cross of Donald Long-shanks: the other signified the cross of Urchvine o Guin. The letters were those of the most antier.t Irish alphabet, exhibited in Valianey's Irish Grammar. From an accurate Drawing, made by James Logan, Esq., it appears that what is now legible is but a fragment of a much larger Inscription, in the old Gaelic character, and ran thus: ?ON DO MAIL FATA, ic. This is doubtless the fragment of the Tombstone placed over Alexander Macdonald, the second of the Glengarn line, who died by violence, and war certainly buried in Reiliff Grain, the family Burying place, in 1461. No one of the Inscriptions at lona has been so much discussed as this one.] Among the same stones is also the following: Hie jacent quatuor Priores de Hy, ex una natione, Johannes, Hvgonius, Patricias in divin. olim Bacularius, alter Hugo- niu t qui obiit an. Dom. millesm quingentesimo. As Pennant gave the Inscription it would be impossible to make sense of it. It originally stood as here given and...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217935807 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021793580X |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 82 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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