 After that Columcille gave to Drostan that town and blessed it, and left as his word, " Whosoever should come against it let him not be many yeared (or) victorious." Drostan's tears (deara) came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, " Let Dear...  Publications - Page viby Spalding Club (Aberdeen, Scotland) - 1869Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 pages
...Whosoever should come against it let him not be many yeared (or) -victorious." Drostan's tears (deara) came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, " Let Dear be its name henceforward." ' At Aberdour are the ruins of a very old church dedicated to St. Drostan, and his well... | |
 | James Rust - 1871 - 344 pages
...authority states. The monkish authority in the " Book of Deer," issued to the late Spalding Club, says : " Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, ' Let Dear be its name henceforward.' " Deur is the Gaelic for a tear. If Columcille said what he is here represented as having... | |
 | James Rust - 1871 - 402 pages
...authority states. The monkish authority in the " Book of Deer," issued to the late Spalding Club, says : " Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, ' Let Dear be its name henceforward.' " Deur is the Gaelic for a tear. If Columcille said what he is here represented as having... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1891 - 354 pages
...blessed it, and left as (his) word ' whosoever should come against it let him not be many -y eared or victorious.' Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, ' Let D6ar (tear) be its name henceforward.'" There need hardly be any doubt that Deir was the name of the... | |
 | Marjory G J. Kinloch - 1874 - 338 pages
...blessed it, and left as his word that "whosoever should come against it, let him not be many-yeared [or] victorious." Drostan's tears came on parting...Columcille, " Let Dear be its name henceforward."'1 Among all his works and undertakings of head and hand, he was specially devoted to prayer. He would... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - 1877 - 546 pages
...and blessed it, and left as his word "Whosoever should come against it, let him not be many-yeared victorious." Drostan's tears came on parting with...Columcille. Said Columcille, " Let Dear be its name henceforward." ' i9 In this traditional account preserved by the monks of Deer, we have a type of the... | |
 | George Reid - 1883 - 184 pages
...and blessed it, and left as (his) word, ' Whosoever should come against it let him not be many-eared [or] victorious.' Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, ' Let DEAR [deara — tears], be its name henceforward.' " But this church or monastery of Deer was long before... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - 1887 - 546 pages
...and blessed it, and left as his word "Whosoever should come against it, let him not be many-yeared victorious." Drostan's tears came on parting with...Columcille. Said Columcille, " Let Dear be its name henceforward.'"i9 In this traditional account preserved by the monks of Deer, we have a type of the... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1891 - 362 pages
...and blessed it, and left as (his) word ' whosoever should come against it let him not be many-yeared or victorious.' Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, ' Let D4ar (tear) be its name henceforwaid.' " There need hardly be any doubt that Deir was the name of the... | |
 | Alexander Cameron - 1894 - 690 pages
...Whosoever should come against it, let him not be many-yeared [or] victorious." Drostau's tears (deara) came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcille, " Let Dear be its name henceforward." MODERN GAELIC VERSION. 1 Colnm-cille agus Drostan mac Chosgraich, a dhalta, — thàinig... | |
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