#d.iv.2

[finnlongman]

Time to call this scribe out for all his weird bilingual abbreviations.

(Why, Eoghan, why.)

[finnlongman]

Heh, thank you. I'm in my fifth (non-consecutive) year of studying Old Irish, because apparently I'm a masochist, and I'm still not convinced I'm any better at it than I was in, say, my second year. But ah well.

Fortunately, I'm not (currently) translating this text, just transcribing it and analysing the manuscript itself, so I am spared trying to make sense of Lugh's rambling. But I do have to translate some of it later this year, for my thesis, so... RIP me in advance, I suppose.

[finnlongman]

Lugh Lamfata mac Eithlind, master of the run-on sentence:

[finnlongman]

The manuscript I'm working on for my palaeography project is from the Stowe Collection, so naturally I was reading up on the background of the collection, and it finally occurred to me to Google Ashburnham Place, and... I have climbed out of a window in that building.

I have also witnessed someone having an egg broken over their head, a paper boat race that resulted in someone else having a tray of water splashed into their face, and several very bad jokes in that building, among other things. It wasn't all disreputable -- I've also stargazed and collected conkers in the grounds -- but funnily enough that's what sticks in my head about it...

I probably won't put that in my palaeography project, but it would make a good footnote:

"The collection was then held at Ashburnham Place[1]

[1] where as a child I committed various shenanigans, including climbing out of a window,"

[finnlongman]

Me: “Oh, neat, there’s a version of Tochmarc Emire where Láeg is actually present, let’s go look at that.”

The manuscript:

“cc. feisi-- 7 a ara .i. l. m-. ria-.g”

Van Hamel assures me this says “Cú Chulainn feisin 7 a ara .i. Lóeg mac Riangabra”, so I’ll take his word for it, but wow, Seán Mac Aedacáin really loves his abbreviations, huh.