The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer by Kenneth Jackson
By Kenneth Jackson
The booklet of Deer, forty three folios of manuscript, containing elements of the Gospels and the Apostles' Creed, is among the treasures of the Cambridge college Library. The booklet is critical now not loads for its fundamental contents as for the notes in Gaelic that have been further to it in a few of the on hand clean areas. those notes checklist the root 'myth' of the monastery of Deer in north-east Aberdeenshire, and formal recordings of assorted can provide of lands to the monastery. The language during which the notes are written is the shape of Gaelic spoken in Buchan through the previous a part of the 12th century, because of this this manuscript predates the subsequent earliest surviving Scots Gaelic records through nearly 3 centuries. Professor Jackson offers a diplomatic textual content of the notes, according to a cautious learn of the unique manuscript, including an edited textual content, a translation, dialogue, notes and a thesaurus.
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M. Ir. do-rothlaig (or ro thothlaig), preterite of do-thluich- with the ro perfective particle infixed. 7. go-ndas tabrad, ' that he should give it', with M. Ir. infixed object pronoun ; see Glossarial Index. 8 . na glerec, with initial c- ' eclipsed ' by the nasalising definite article ; see pp. 142f. act mad bee, ' all but ' ; literally ' but if it be a little '. 9. na glerec, see note on 1. 8. 1 0. dendaes, spelling for dentais, see pp. 132 and 1 36. do-rat i n-edbairt. Do-rat, ' gave ', is also the verb used in these contexts for ' gave ' in the deeds in the Book of Kells (see pp.
Utnullus eis . aut eo7/. catellis . aliquam iiuriam iferre psumat. T. g67/. epo. deduncallden. T. andrea epo. decat. T. debfe. 130 T. doncado comite . defib . 7 malmori . dat hotla. 7ggillebrite . comite . deng . 7ggil lecoded . me red . 7broci . 7cormac . det brud. 7ada. me ferdomnac. nillendrias . me. matni. ap . abodeon. 23 The texts and translations TEXTUAL NOTES 3. The i subscript to the second o, which is perfectly clear, was missed by Fraser. The reading cruthnec is certainly right, and Fraser's cruithnec wrong.
One would expect *Ailtre with syn cope, and in fact the e is not written, the contraction for er being used each time. This is Altrie, formerly the name of the Bruxie area about two miles west of Old Deer, which appears in 1 544 as Altre and in 1609 as Altrie. The Lordship of Altrie, which was set up in favour of the Keiths in 1 587, was called from this ; but it became obsolete when the Keith estates were broken up late in the eighteenth century. It was part of the lands of the Cistercian abbey.