Editorial note — Abridged from The Dublin University Magazine. The Invasions Of Ireland By The Danes.

[Footnote 291: The first chief who bore this name had killed a druid, accompanying the sacrilegious deed with a fiendish grin on his features. "That vile expression on your face," said the dying man, "shall give a name to your posterity while grass grows." Ceann salach is literally dirty head. Other great families have not escaped nick-names. Cameron is crooked nose; Cromwell, crooked eye. (Hy Kinsala is Kinsella's country.)]