The Latin & Irish lives of Ciaran

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hound . . . .

Obbera . . . . .

-XII. How Claran gave a gin os a plough-

coulier . . o. .

- XIV.

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of the sive incidenis common to ait, ΙΙ-V. IX. Ιt iS note-worthy, however, that LB transfers V. IX, to a positionaster the second phase of the Life. This is possibiydue to a misplaced leas in the exemplar from whicli ourcopies of LB are derived. X-XΙΙΙ, varianis on thetheme of XIV, are probably interpolations in LA, and VIII, a valvabie fragment of folk-lore, is an interpolation in VG. VI and VΙΙ are conflations of two varieties of one incident, as is minted out in the Annotations. These observations Mil ghow how complex is the criticismos the Ciaran tradition. B. The second phase of the lite is the Schooling of Claran at Clonardo perhaps about 53 535, stili uSinground numbers. This part of the life is most fully toldin VG: it is very fragmentary in ali the Latin Lives.

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-- I9XXVI. How Claran Deed a woman Dom

XXVIII. A necdotes of Clonata .

XXIX. The partire 9 Claran and Findian

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XXX. The adventure of the robbers of Loch

Erne . . . . . .

lahe . . . . .

XXXII. Claran in Aran . . .

3 The difference of opinion as to the setting of incident XXXΙΙΙ is to be noted. Also noteworthy is the absence of any reference to a second ViSit to Senan, though suchis postulated in the lives of the lalter saint. D. The fourth phase covers the tim accordingio ali our texis a few monilis, according to other authorities some years ntervening hetween the foundation of Clonmacnois and the death of Claran. The traditions of LA and VG here run along the fame lines:

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I B is curiousty diverse. There are in au twelve inci

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as the wright Beonedus himself was grievousty burdened by the imposts of Ainmireach Κing of Temoria, he, eluding the pressure of the impost, departeo from hisown region, that is from the coasis of Vitae, into the territories of the Conactha. There he dweli in the plain of Aei, with the king Criminanus: and there he begat Saint Κyaranus, whose Life this is.

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the best was made from the water, and he gave it to his mollier. But his parenis, astonished at the miracle, sent