Note 1092 — Chapter X · LEARNING AND LANGUAGE. (continued 2)

When. The narrative from this down to the bracket on p. 502 is taken from the copy of the Amra Choluim Chille, or Elegy of Colum Cille, contained in the MS. so often quoted as A. L. in the notes to this translation. The text of this MS. is not as full as that of the preface to the copy of the Amra, in the Leabar Breac, or of that in the Yellow Book of Lecan, in both of which an account of the Convention of Druim-ceta is contained. But as far as it goes, A. L. agrees pretty closely with the other texts. The preface to the copy of the Amra, contained in Lebor na hUidre, the oldest text of the composition we possess, differs in arrangement from the three mentioned; but the facts related in it are substantially the same as those given in the others.