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NB : CORRIGENDUM to this Chapter {link}. It is to provide the correct situation that graveslab No. 161 is not still on the north or Gospel side of the altar in St Oran’s Chapel. However, Historic Scotland now agree with my research that this honoured position is, by ritual and custom, most likely where Reginald, the Abbey founder, is buried - and, with his father, Somerled, on the other side. See their just released 2014 Official Guide to Iona Abbey, p.39. And its p.17 {and Credits} also acknowledge my essential “reinterpretation of the inscription” on slab no. 150 which identifies it as Angus Og Macdonald’s, died, c.1318; see the detail in Ch. 6, of the book, or ANGUS OG on the left hand list here. {A letter to me from Historic Scotland.}
Reference the poem, last page of my Chapter above :
'Very beautiful anonymous Irish poem, addressed mainly to Reginald or Raghnaill, son of Somerled, King of the Isles, 1164 to 1204' {some early stanzas ref. a contemporary, Reginald, son of Godred}. Hull, Eleanor ; "The poem-Book of the Gael" "; Intro, xxv -xxvi; 1912. [1]
"EMAIN OF THE APPLES" - Printed in Skene's Celtic Scotland, VOL III, Appen. 2, pps 410-427. An Irish poem relating to the Kingdom of the Isles, copied from a fragment (paper) of an Irish MS written circa a.d. 1600, in the possession of W. M. Hennessy, Esq., collated with a copy contained in the Book of Fermoy (R. I. Academy), transcribed about a.d. 1457.
"BAILE SUTHAIN SITH EAMHNA". Forty nine quatrains!
One gloss of the name for the magical Irish island Emain Ablach is ‘Emain of the Apples’ {identified with either the Isle of Man or the Isle of Arran}.
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[1] - Hull; {xxiv-xxv}. "In all Irish writing we find poetry and fact, dreams and realities, exact detail and wild imagination, linked closely hand in hand. This is the Gael as revealed in his literature. At first we are inclined to doubt the accuracy of any part of the story; but, as we continue our examination, we are surprised at the substantial correctness of the ancient records, so far as we are able to test them, whether on the historical or on the social side."
'Very beautiful anonymous Irish poem, addressed mainly to Reginald or Raghnaill, son of Somerled, King of the Isles, 1164 to 1204' {some early stanzas ref. a contemporary, Reginald, son of Godred}. Hull, Eleanor ; "The poem-Book of the Gael" "; Intro, xxv -xxvi; 1912. [1]
"EMAIN OF THE APPLES" - Printed in Skene's Celtic Scotland, VOL III, Appen. 2, pps 410-427. An Irish poem relating to the Kingdom of the Isles, copied from a fragment (paper) of an Irish MS written circa a.d. 1600, in the possession of W. M. Hennessy, Esq., collated with a copy contained in the Book of Fermoy (R. I. Academy), transcribed about a.d. 1457.
"BAILE SUTHAIN SITH EAMHNA". Forty nine quatrains!
One gloss of the name for the magical Irish island Emain Ablach is ‘Emain of the Apples’ {identified with either the Isle of Man or the Isle of Arran}.
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[1] - Hull; {xxiv-xxv}. "In all Irish writing we find poetry and fact, dreams and realities, exact detail and wild imagination, linked closely hand in hand. This is the Gael as revealed in his literature. At first we are inclined to doubt the accuracy of any part of the story; but, as we continue our examination, we are surprised at the substantial correctness of the ancient records, so far as we are able to test them, whether on the historical or on the social side."
