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Danube Valley) and he was returning thence through the Orkneys with his fleet when he met Part-olon there with his fleet.

Geoffrey records: “ At that time Gurgiunt was passing through the Orkney islands, he found thirty ships full of men and women. And upon his enquiry of them the reason of their coming thither, their Duke named Partholoim approached him in a respectful and submissive manner, and desired pardon and peace, telling him that he had been driven out of Spain, and was sailing round “ those seas in quest of a habitation. He also desired some small part of Britain to dwell in, that they might put an end to their tedious wanderings ; for it was now a year and a half since he and his company had been out atsea. When Gurgiunt Brabtruc understood that they had come from Spain, and were called Bar-clenses, he granted their petition, and sent men with them to Tveland . . . and assigned it to them. There they grew up and increased in number, and have possessed that island to this very day.’’?

This Orkney location for Part-olon and his fleet whilst on their voyage from ‘‘ Spain’ appears to be a reference to his sea-passage from his colony in Kerry to the Garrioch Vale of the Don of Aberdeen, the site of his monument in question. That portion of the narrative which describes him as returning from the Orkneys to Kerry is presumably a confusion, introduced by later Irish copyists and translators of these ancient chronicles before Geoffrey's time, having substituted “ Ciarraighe ’’? or Kerry of ‘“‘ Ireland’ (where Part-olon had, according to the tradition, we have seen, established an Irish colony) for ‘‘Garrioch,”’ the district of our Newton monument in the north-east of Scotland and not very far distant by sea from the Orkneys. Geoffrey expressly states that Part-olon “ desired some small part of Britain” —not Ireland, though Ireland is mentioned later on, presumably to adapt it to the Irish-Scot tradition. And the relatively short stay of Part-olon in Kerry and his sudden disappearance from there, ascribed conveniently to’ plague,” would be thus accounted for, as well as his permanent colonization of the south of Ireland by the two sons left there.

Indeed, I find that positive, more or less contemporary,

(GAC, shy We 2 This is the Irish form of the name ‘‘ Kerry,” B.O.I., 16.