taken from the version of the "Leabhar Gabhala, or Book of Conquests," contained in the "Book of Ballimote." So far as it goes, it corresponds very closely with the preceding legend. The date attached to it is that of the "Book of Ballimote."
XV. century. Tract on the Picts. 44. Tract on the Picts.—This tract is taken from two separate versions of the "Leabhar Gabhala, or Book of Conquests," contained in the "Book of Lecain." It consists, in point of fact, of a résuméof the Pictish legends which were attached to the Irish translations of Nennius, with some additions which are not without value. The date attached to them is that of the "Book of Lecain."
Tract on the Scots, with Meterical Prophecy. 45. Tract on the Scots, with Metrical Prophecy.—This little tract is found in the beginning of the Royal MS. of Fordun (13 e. x.) The metrical portion of it consists of three lines which occur in the " Chronicon Rhythmicum," and of twenty-five lines, of which the first four are taken from the old " Metrical Prophecy" (No. xi.), and the last twenty-one lines are quoted in Fordun's history, and were afterwards interpolated in the "Chronicon Rhythmicum." This tract is here printed, as, if it was the original from which Fordun made his quotation, it must precede him in date.
Metrical chronicle commonly called the Chronicon Rhythmicum. 46. Metrical Chronicle, commonly called the Chronicon Rhythmicum.—This metrical chronicle is one of the six pieces printed by Innes in his appendix. It is to be found only in the MSS. of Fordun, either prefixed to or added to his work;
