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No. 4.- Bridget. -J. F Morius, St. Bathins, writes : Tne moiling of this wo/d in it 9 literal Benee is, ] think, 'Ho be married," fcur. in the bonse osnveyeil to the minda of ihose i-itnple oeople in the wllda o) Eildare it had a deeper moaning— viz., to be appropriated by He.wen. Tho reason v-hy it ia 80 popular as a name amonir the Ir'.sh i=i, I presumn, on acxuut of the banoiity with which tho original poieesa jr uf the nHine was invested, an<i also on account ol her reuiarbnule beauty, chastity, aud purity, and wo are ttucerstiliuus about liame,. St. Biide — Irish, Priodh ; A. H., »ridget-is one of tho three great Jri^h Haints. Bho also the batnt adjured by the Bouglabcs, vide pas?ag« in " Marniion" : — " No, by tit. Bnde of Bothwoil, do !" Bj^ some she i-< togarded aVthe si'tir of Sfc. PatricV, atjd by Others as an admirer of dt. Patriuk ; and, i I inista'<e not, I saw in the Witness Home time ago that shn was (uaconbcious)y, cf course) tho originator ot the custom of giving a siik ureas to the woman you havo rejecied who, in ria;ht of leap j oar, has proposed to j ou.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1681, 9 February 1884, Page 18
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