INTERPOLATIONS IN BEDE'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND OTHER ANCIENT ANNALS AFFECTING THE EARLY HISTORY OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. PEEBLES: JAMES WATSON. EDINBURGH: JOHN MENZIES & CO. 1883, Bede's birthplace and the monastery in which he spent most of his life situated near the Firth of Forth-First chapter of the His. tory relating to the emigration of Scots from Ireland fabricated -Twelfth chapter, mentioning Scots, genuine-Its Contents-- Only one Roman wall, that of Antonine, known to Bede-Ac- count of Ethelfrid's battle with Ælan, king of the Scots, an in- terpolation-Laurentius' Letters to the Scots also an interpola- tion-Notice of Honorius' dealings with the Scots another—The Scots, among whom Oswald and his brothers spent their youth, the people to the north of the Firth of Forth-Passage about Scots in Ireland an interpolation—Columba, his connection with Ireland an interpolation-Notices of several priests living in Ireland also interpolations-Hermits in Iceland--The Scottish bishops and the Easter controversy-Bede's Scotia the country north of the Firth of Forth-Fursey's life an interpolation- Not known to the Irish annalists-Probably an Icelandic saint -Account of Beort's expedition an interpolation-An Irish Scotsman of the name of Adamnan unknown to the other annalists-Several pages of the Ecclesiastical History copied by Roger of Wendover only with the exception of a paragraph containing the word Hibernia-Adamnan the abbot of Hii- Work on the Holy Places mentioned only in the Ecclesiastical History and by Wendover-No mention made of his Life of Columba by any early writer-Unreliable character of notices of his visit to Ireland contained in Irish records-Not mentioned by Clyn, an Irish annalist of the fourteenth century-Egbert's life in Ireland and his whole biography, including the conversion of the monks of Hii, interpolations-Notice of a pestilence in Ire- land another interpolation-Letter to Naitan, king of the Picts, OTHER ANCIENT ANNALS. Tacitus' Life of Agricola-Ireland mentioned several times in it— Untrustworthiness of the allusions to that country-Life of Agricola first produced about Boece's time-Mentions few places in Scotland-No reliable evidence to prove Agricola was ever in Britain-Unknown to all the ancient annalists of England and Scotland-Orkneys said to have been subdued by Agricola in opposition to Eutropius and all the early English and Scottish annalists-Adamnan's Life of St Columba-Its authenticity questioned--The manuscript on which it is founded wants the characteristics of the time to which it is assigned-Not men. tioned by Roger of Wendover, who refers to another work of Adamnan's-Cumminius' Life of Columba the basis of Adamnan's-Never mentions Hibernia-This word interpolated in the only extract from the earlier life which is acknowledged in the later-Hibernia often mentioned in Adamnan's Life-Never distinctly affirmed that Hibernia and Scotia were names for one country-Instances of the curious way in which the two words are used-Nennius' History of the Britons-Quoted as a work of Gildas-Tampered with to a large extent-Incorporated with Geoffrey's British History-Interpolations about Ireland and the Orkneys-Patrick and Palladius-Similar account of the two saints in Roger of Wendover's History-Material difference between the two accounts regarding Scotland and the ScotsInterpolations in the Irish version of Nennius about Ireland Florence of Worcester's Chronicle--Calls Marianus a Scot of Ireland-Not corroborated-His Scotia the Scotland of the present day-Interpolations about Ireland-Notices of Scots and Scotland-Scots said to be Irishmen really Scotsmen-Interpolation about Marianus being in Ireland-Henry of Huntingdon's History-No manuscript of the author's extant-First printed in 1596--Scotland the only Scotia known to him-Interpolations about Scots in Ireland-His Scots not inhabitants of Ireland-Ireland or the Irish mentioned fifteen times before the year 699, and only twice from then till 1051-All the first fif teen occur in Bede's Ecclesiastical History-Passages about Scots and Scotland apparently all genuine, with the exception of one about the Easter controversy ་ pages 59-84 |
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