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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 1, Issue 4, Page 43

Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 1, Issue 4, Page 43
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The Antiquarian Society, 1782
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Vallancey, Charles
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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
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1
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49 THE LAW OF TANISTRYILLUSTRATED.49 finhabitants of the province of Ellen orwho fo diftinguithed ehemfelves from the re1the Livoniaris by the name of that particularcountry, and not from its natural fituation, whichthey could not have efteemed ahfolutely or pecu-liarly eallerly, as they could not be ignorant, thatthere were other nations of mankind, fituate be.tween thenifelves and the r iing of the fun.That the Oft-manni or rather Eaftmanni, whocame to Ireland under the command of the threeofficers above named, were really Livonians, asUther has judged, is an opinion which I thin creceives th on confirmation from this mentionthat is made of L th-mannicc, as of foreignpeople affociated with the rd of thofe firangerswho infefted and fettled in this country from thelatter end of the eighth and during the ninthcentury; for -s thfe Lei -rnanni plainly feem tobe the people of that particular province of Li-voni , which is called Letteh aiid Letta, fo theOft-manni or Ealc-manni appear as l i ly to bethe inhabitants of that other province of the famecbud try, which is called Ellen tid Eftia; andwhich, it is natural to think, had retained the ge-nencal and national name of the anCient EJlii,deferibed by the Roman writers ; ira a word, thefetwo opinions, Uthers of the origin of the Off-manni from the. province of Eftonia, and mineof that of the Let -mvini, mentioned in theMunfter hook, from the province of Letten,rn:nially fupport and confirm each other, fo asto make it the more apparent, that both peoplewere Livonians, of thefe two different provincesrefped iveLy.reIpe& eIY. And if we add to all this, that thofef 0 eigner5 who caine to ireland, with the threebrcthel5 and commanders now often mentioned,and were fettled by them in the cities of Di bljnWaterford, and Limerick, have bceii frequen Ci vcalled by the name of Gaul, by Irilh weiters, everji ce their firft landing in this country ; this circumilance, joined with that of the Leln2a;mi,being found mentioned ira Ir th antiquities, notlong after the arrival of thofe fame foreigners,will render i more than probable, that all andevery one of the different provinces of Livonihave furniIhed adventurers to the expeditions forinvading Ireland, in the ninth century.For as the Let-manni and Eft-manni, were very.apparently the people of the provinces of Lettaand Elba refpedtively : fo I think, it equally ap-parent, that thofe whom huuh writers called Gail,were the people of Semigallia, which is a thirdprovince of Livonia, bordering oi Letta towardsthe South, and fituate juft at the bottom of theSinus Livonicus. And here it is particularlyto be remarked, that before. the arrival of thofefame foreigners, writers have never diftinguiIhedany people or nation by the name of Gail! : foras to the Gauls, in the molt anCient writings, thewords Ceilt or Geilt, and Ceilteach, iignify aGaul and Ceilltiic in the plural and writers of themiddle ages have ufed the word Galtach to uignifya Gaul, and plurally Galticc the people of Gaul;,but the words Gall in the uingular, and Gail! inthe plural, firft ufed to Iignify fome of the in-vaders of the ninth century, who probably werethe
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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 1, Issue 4

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