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

[Footnote 280: However the people of the tenth century pronounced this word, modern scholars are content to sound it Mahoun. An old Munster king, Oilliol Oiuim, appointed in his will that the descendants of his two sons, Eogan and Cormac Oas, should sway the sceptre of the south in alternate succession. A very unwise proceeding, as future events proved.]