Welsh Note: Haneirin Author(s): A. Anscombe Source: The Celtic Review, Vol. 6, No. 24 (Apr., 1910), pp. 377-378 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30070236 Accessed: 05-06-2016 12:26 UTC

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Festival, Mbd, Breton and Regional Festivals, they are planning inter- sectional meetings of the London at Pan-Celtic Concerts and at lectures delivered before the Metropolitan, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Manx and Cornish Associations.

SCOTTISH NOTES The Summer School of Gaelic under the auspices of An Comunn Gaidhealach is to be held this year in Oban during the month of August. The Education Committee of An Comunn are making satisfactory progress with the arrangements; competent teachers have been appointed, and an influential committee at Oban are taking charge of the local arrangements. The school, it is expected, will be recognised by the Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers, and subject to this recognition, the Secondary Education Committee for the Highland Counties will, it is hoped, provide grants to assist teachers to attend. The first experiment of this kind was made last autumn at Roy Bridge, and the promoters had every reason to be satisfied with the success which attended their effort. It is hoped that teachers and others wishing to improve their knowledge of Gaelic will take advantage of the facilities thus afforded. There will be three grades of classes, elementary, intermediate, and advanced, and also a class for Gaelic singing. The Comunn is increasing in strength and usefulness. Several new branches have been formed during the past winter, and from eight to ten local mod's are to be held during the year in various districts. The local Committee of the Mod to be held in Edinburgh this year are actively engaged in making preparatory arrangements. The Mod syllabus in Gaelic and English can now be had from the Comunn secretary, 108 Hope Street, Glasgow.

WELSH NOTE

' Haneirin.'

Mr. Nicholson's explanation (supra, p. 217) of the name of Aneurin, the brother of St. Gildas (t554) is inexact. In the first place, Latin h was not retained in words borrowed by the Welsh. For instance-hdben-am, hor-am, hospit-em, have become 'afwyn,' 'awr,' and 'yspyt,' respectively. The correct eighth-century form of Hsnorin-us is 'Eneirin,' just as ' Celeini-on' (MSS. cair celemion), the name of Lincoln in the Nomina Ciuitatum, is the correct representative of C6lni-a. The descent of the word would appear to be this: *lnJrin-*Anaurin-*Anarin. The second form is represented by 'Aneurin.' The last yielded, primarily, 'Aneirin': 'Gododin,' lines 444, 524, 891; and finally eneirin. This form obviously occurred in the valuable little notice about the poets of the Cymry which was reproduced

This content downloaded from 138.38.44.95 on Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:26:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 378 THE CELTIC REVIEW by Nennius, who supposed that it stood for et neirin. The transmitted umlaut is also found in 'Ceredig' for Crtrtic, and in 'peleidyr,' the old plural ofpdlldr; 'Gododin,' lines 340, 700, 721, 743, 950. A. ANSCOMBE.

BOOK REVIEWS. The Norse Influence on Celtic . By GEORGE HENDERSON, M.A., Ph.D., B. Litt., Celtic Lecturer in the University of Glasgow. Glasgow: Maclehose and Sons. 1910. 10s. This is a work which will undoubtedly be read with much interest by all Highlanders, and especially by those belonging to the north and west, who care to know anything about the past history of their people. Here for the first time they will be able to study in a connected form the evidence which goes to prove that many centuries ago the Gael of Scotland was pro- foundly influenced from without-that the Norse fighting man, the Norse trader, the Norse settler, had much to do with shaping the later fortunes of the Highlands. Separate parts of the question hare from time to time been dealt with by different hands, though not always with equal fulness or success. Dr. Henderson has endeavoured to treat the subject as a whole, and by doing so, makes its importance all the more apparent. Further investigations of the various problems must start from the results which he has summed up here, so far as they are found to be in harmony with the facts on both sides of the question. This proviso is a necessary one, for, as will appear presently, Dr. Henderson's work is in some points susceptible of improvement. The opening chapter, on 'The Historic Background,' gives a succinct account of the Norwegian settlements in Scotland, and only a few points here call for remark. It ought perhaps to be noticed, if only to prevent possible misunderstanding, that the name of which the Norsemen gave to the is simply the Latin papa or Greek papas, which among the German peoples on the Continent came to be the ordinary word for 'priest' (of. Old Frisian papa, Low German pape, High German pfaffe); it was almost certainly from that side, and not from the Culdees themselves, that the Norsemen learned the word. The statement on p. 32, that 'Earl Thorfinn also ruled in Galloway,' is founded on an erroneous reading, and curiously enough Dr. Henderson goes on to give the only correct version of the passage, which shows that the Earl was only temporarily lying ' at the place called Gadd-geblar where Scotland and meet.' That Gadd- ge'lar is intended to represent Gall-gaidheal is clear enough, and the locality is definitely indicated, but there is more difficulty in the precise relationship of this name to the later Galloway than is implied in the remarks on p. 18. The chapter on 'Scoto-Norse Art'is very brief, and the scantiness of the material is somewhat surprising. In connection with this part of the

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