Excerpt from Goidilica or Notes on the Gaelic Manuscripts Preserved at Turin, Milan, Berne, Leyden, the Monastery of S. Paul, Carinthia, and Cambridge, With Eight Hymns From the Liber Hymnorum, and the Old-Irish Notes in the Book of Armagh I have three objects in printing this book - one, to save the contents of my transcripts of the glosses at Turin, Milan and Berne from the destruction which in this country anything solely entrusted to paper mss. Must sooner or later meet with another, to give those excellent German philologists who, like Schleicher and Ebel, have expressed a desire for trustworthy copies of old-irish compositions, material on which they may work with confidence; and, thirdly, to lay the first stone of the cairn which I hope to raise to the memory of my beloved friend and teacher, Siegfried. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.