Note 1049 — Chapter X · LEARNING AND LANGUAGE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Hair. Brodirne. It seems to be the word Latinised ‘fimbria’ by Adamnan (Reeves’s ed. p. 25). But it is certainly used in the sense of a ‘hair,’ or ‘thread,’ in the Irish Trip. Life of St. Patrick. Fer cech broithirne fil fort chasail, ‘a man for every hair that is in thy casula’ (p. 67, O’Curry’s copy, R. I. Acad.).