Note 36 — MANNER IN WHICH THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME ORIGINATED.

The ancient Irish legend, as far as it is accessible to me, somewhat differs from the statement, as it is given in the text. It is not Niall the Great who penetrates as far as the Alps, but his successor Dathy, who, A.D. 427, is struck dead by lightning at the foot of the Alps. See Keating, General History of Ireland, transl. by Dermod O’Conor, Lond. 1723, fol. p. 319. M‘Dermot, History of Ireland, Lond. 1820, 8vo. I. p. 411. The accounts of Roman authors concerning Ireland are collected in O’Conor Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, T. I. Prolegom. p. 1.—Note of the German Editor.