[AdmSmith]

There might be another explanation for ABLATHANALBA (It might be similar to abracadabra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/abracadabra) Here is a picture

It looks like Greek letters, but it is not necessarily in Greek.

Or, if "Alba" is Gaelic for Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba
could it be Ab latha n-Alba? something like: O wonder one day in our Scotland (anybody out there that knows Gaelic?)

[AnAmericanMother]

A blath an' Alba . . . [sort of =] "it's warm in Scotland." With proper grammar it ought to be "'S blath anns an Alba" . . .

Global Warming! Global Warming! < runs around doing the Highland fling and collapses >

Tha beagan Ghaidlig agam . . . in other words there's a little Gaelic at me, enough to get me into trouble.

[AdmSmith]

Well, it was a typo in my post, it was not ABLATHANABLA, but ABLANATHANALBA http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/magic/rb.display.html#no.4 i.e. the Gaelic part was fun, but Bravo Sierra ;-)