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Excerpt from Celtic Remains
The author generally refers to Welsh writers, espe ci ally in the quotations from the bards, by the initials of their names, after the fashion adopted by Dr. Davies in his Grammar and Dictionary. Most of these names have been printed in full, or sufficiently full, to obviate the inconvenience of referring to the explanatory lists in the now scarce volumes of that eminent scholar. On the contrary, the terms nomen loci, nomen proprium viri, nomen proprium feminw, and the like, which in the original are sometimes written in full, and some times more or less contractedly, will almost uniformly be found here represented by n. L, n. Pr. V., and n. Pr. F. The initials J. D., which frequently occur after place-names, appear to denote John Davies, the author of Display of Herauldfry (l A few of the contrae tions met with in the ms. The Editor was not able to decipher, as the author nowhere explains any of his abbreviations.
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