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Craigie: The Norse-Irish Question.
177
very difficult, if not impossible, to collect from Icelandic as
many loanwords from Gaeiic as the third part of the
loan-words from Old Norse (in Gaeiic) here brought together".
It would be interesting to* see whether ’nærmere
under-segelse’ can at all affect this statement; until it has been
tried, Dr Bugge has no right to assume a probable success.
It is quite possible, as Prof. Bugge says, that Gaeiic
loanwords may have been more numerous in the speech of those
Northmen whose home was in Ireland or the Hebrides. 1
have made the same suggestion in the article just referred
to (Arkiv X. 153), but as we really know nothing about
the matter, it has no practical bearing on the points at issue.
On p. 297 Dr. Bugge, as mentioned above, briefly sums
up ’the result of the foregoing inquiry’. Some of the
Statements in this summary are so sweeping, that it may be
worth while to draw attention to the fact that the evidence
for them is of the very slightest character. This is the more
necessary because such general statements are very apt to
be repeated by others as if they were well-established facts.
Thus Dr Bugge says: "The kings of Dublin went on
pil-grimages to the shrines of Erin". All the evidence he has
produced for this is that Olaf Kvaran went as a pilgrim to
Iona (which is not in Erin). "The Irish annals say nothing
about him being (as one otherwise might suppose) the first
Norse king or chief who thus went to Iona. On the
con-trary, they represent it as an every-day occurrence" (p. 290).
From the mere entry of the fact in the annals it is quite
impossible to draw any conclusions of this kind; after all is
said, we only know that Olaf went to Iona. Again Dr.
Bugge says: "Men of Northern race were priests, and
Northmen studied at the Irish monastic schools in Clonmacnois
and Cell Belaig." The whole of this sentence is based upon
the meagrest of evidence. There is a single case of a priest
at Clonmacnois called Connmhach ua Tomhrair, who died
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