— — — 8
IX. How Ciaran restored a calf which a
wolf had devoured 5 8 5 9
X. How Ciaran was delivered from
robbers 7 — 6 10
XI. How Ciaran gave a gift of cattle 8 — — —
XII. How Ciaran gave a gift of a
plough-coulter 9 — — —
XIII. How Ciaran gave a gift of an ox 10 — — — XIV. How Ciaran gave the king’s cauldron
to beggars and was enslaved 11 — 7 11
XV. How Ciaran reproved his mother 13 — 9 —
XVI. The breaking of the carriage-axle 14 — 10 —

The boyhood legend probably consisted originally of the five incidents common to all, II-V, IX.  It is noteworthy, however, that LB transfers V, IX, to a position after the second phase of the Life.  This is possibly due to a misplaced leaf in the exemplar from which our copies of LB are derived.  X-XIII, variants on the theme of XIV, are probably interpolations in LA, and VIII, a valuable fragment of folk-lore, is an interpolation in VG.  VI and VII are conflations of two varieties of one incident, as is pointed out in the Annotations.  These observations will show how complex is the criticism of the Ciaran tradition.

=B.= The second phase of the life is the Schooling of Ciaran at Clonard; perhaps about 530-535, still using round numbers.  This part of the life is most fully told in VG; it is very fragmentary in all the Latin Lives.  There are thirteen incidents—­

LA LB LC VG
XVII. How Ciaran went with his cow to
the school of Findian 15 4 11 12
XVIII. The angels grind for Ciaran 16 — 12 13
XIX. Ciaran and the king’s daughter 17 — — 14
XX. How Ciaran healed the lepers — — — 15
XXI. Ciaran and the stag — — — 16
XXII. The story of Ciaran’s gospel 18 — — 17
XXIII. The blessing of Ciaran’s food 19 — 8 —
XXIV. The story of the mill and the
bailiff’s daughter — 6 — 18
XXV. The story of Cluain — — — 19
XXVI. How Ciaran freed a woman from
servitude 20 5 — 21
XXVII. How Ciaran freed another woman
from servitude 21 — — 22
XXVIII. Anecdotes of Clonard — — — 20
XXIX. The parting of Ciaran and Findian — — — 23