Note 20 — Chapter XL
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These are the names alluded to by Milton in his famous sonnet, on his Tetrachordon, which name, he says, the public could not understand.
"Cries the stall-reader, 'Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this!' and some in file Stand spelling false while one might walk to Mile- End Green. Why it is harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto or Macdonnel or Galasp!"
"Colkitto" is for Colla Ciotach, "left-handed Coll or Colla," and "Galasp" is Giolla-easpuig, now Gillespie. Alaster Mac Donald was killed at the battle of Cnoc na ndos by the renegade Murough O'Brien in 1647.