Gods and Fighting Men — Chronicle
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The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]] · the first day of Beltaine
It was Nuada was king of the Tuatha de Danaan at that time, but Manannan, son of Lir, was greater again.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
Eochaid, son of Erc, was king of the Firbolgs at that time, and messengers came to him at Teamhair, and told him there was a new race of people come into Ireland, but whether from the earth or the skies or on the wind was not known, and that they had settled themselves at Magh Rein.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · in the night
Then King Eochaid took counsel with his chief advisers, and it is what they agreed, to send a good champion of their own to see the strangers and to speak with them.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
Then King Eochaid took counsel with his chief advisers, and it is what they agreed, to send a good champion of their own to see the strangers and to speak with them. So they chose out Sreng, that was a great fighting man, and he rose up and took his strong red-brown shield, and his two thick-handled spears, and his sword, and his head-covering, and his thick iron club, and he set out from Teamhair, and went on towards the place the strangers were, at Magh Rein.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · 📍 [[Magh Rein]]
But before he reached it, the watchers of the Tuatha de Danaan got sight of him, and they sent out one of their own champions, Bres, with his shield and his sword and his two spears, to meet him and to talk with him.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1
And it is the message Bres sent to the Firbolgs, that if they would give up one half of Ireland, his people would be content to take it in peace; but if they would not give up that much, there should be a battle.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · after Nuada had lost the battle
And after Nuada had lost the battle he was put out of the kingship on that account.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1
And the king they chose in his place was Bres, that was the most beautiful of all their young men, so that if a person wanted to praise any beautiful thing, whether it was a plain, or a dun, or ale, or a flame, or a woman, or a man, or a horse, it is what he would say, "It is as beautiful as Bres."
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
But in spite of Bres being so beautiful, his reign brought no great good luck to his people; for the Fomor, whose dwelling-place was beyond the sea, or as some say below the sea westward, began putting tribute on them, the way they would get them under their own rule.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
And as to Bres himself, he put a tax on every house in Ireland of the milk of hornless dun cows, or of the milk of cows of some other single colour, enough for a hundred men.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · 📍 [[the palace]] · every day
Ogma himself, the shining poet, was under orders to bring firing to the palace every day for the whole army from the Islands of Mod; and he so weak for want of food that the sea would sweep away two-thirds of his bundle every day.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · 📍 [[Rath Brese]]
And as to the Dagda, he was put to build raths, for he was a good builder, and he made a trench round Rath Brese.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · one day
"There is a reason for that," said the Dagda, "for every evening, Cridenbel, the blind man, makes a demand for the three best bits of my share of food, and takes them from me." "I will give you an advice," said Angus. He put his hand in his bag then, and took out three pieces of gold and gave them to him.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1 · in the evening
So in the evening the Dagda did that; and no sooner had Cridenbel swallowed down the gold than he died.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1
Some of the people said then to the king: "The Dagda has killed Cridenbel, giving him some deadly herb." The king believed that, and there was anger on him against the Dagda, and he gave orders he should be put to death.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1
The king gave orders then to have the body cut open. And they found the gold inside it, and they knew it was the truth the Dagda had told.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2 · on the morrow
Without food ready on a dish; without milk enough for a calf to grow on; without shelter; without light in the darkness of night; without enough to pay a story-teller; may that be the prosperity of Bres.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · one time
So Miach put the cat's eye in his head; but he would as soon have been without it after, for when he wanted to sleep and take his rest, it is then the eye would start at the squeaking of the mice, or the flight of the birds, or the movement of the rushes; and when he was wanting to watch an army or a gathering, it is then it was sure to be in a deep sleep.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2 · Three days and three nights
And Miach was not satisfied with what his father had done to the king, and he took Nuada's own hand that had been struck off, and brought it to him and set it in its place, and he said: "Joint to joint, and sinew to sinew." Three days and three nights he was with the king; the first day he put the hand against his side, and the second day against his breast, till it was covered with skin, and the third day he put bulrushes that were blackened in the fire on it, and at the end of that time the king was healed.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · Then
Then when the Tuatha de Danaan saw Nuada as well as he was before, they gathered together to Teamhair, where Bres was, and they bade him give up the kingship, for he had held it long enough. So he had to give it up, though he was not very willing, and Nuada was put back in the kingship again.
The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 2
Nothing drove me out but my own injustice and my own hardness; I took away their treasures from the people, and their jewels, and their food itself. And there were never taxes put on them before I was their king.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · for the length of thirteen days
And it is what he did, he came down from his throne, and he put Lugh on it in his place, for the length of thirteen days, the way they might all listen to the advice he would give.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 1 · 📍 [[Island of the Tower of Glass]]
Now a Druid foretold one time that it was by his own grandson he would get his death. And he had at that time but one child, a daughter whose name was Ethlinn; and when he heard what the Druid said, he shut her up in the tower on the island.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 2 · one time
With that he rushed into the forge, and great anger on him. And no sooner did Balor get the halter in his hand than he set out, dragging the Glas along with him, to the strand, and across the sea to his own island.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 2
And when her time came, Ethlinn gave birth to a son. And when Balor knew that, he bade his people put the child in a cloth and fasten it with a pin, and throw him into a current of the sea. And as they were carrying the child across an arm of the sea, the pin dropped out, and the child slipped from the cloth into the water, and they thought he was drowned. But he was brought away by Birog of the Mountain, and she brought him to his father Cian; and he gave him to be fostered by Taillte, daughter of the King of the Great Plain.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 2 · 📍 [[Grellach Dollaid]] · A full year
A full year they stopped there, making their plans together in secret, the way the Fomor would not know they were going to rise against them till such time as all would be ready, and till they would know what their strength was.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3
Lugh Sgoith Gleigeil Goitne Gorm-Shuileach Sine Sindearg Donall Donn-Ruadh
And when he came nearer they knew it was Lugh Lamh-Fada, of the Long Hand, that had come back to them, and along with him were the Riders of the Sidhe from the Land of Promise, and his own foster-brothers, the sons of Manannan, Sgoith Gleigeil, the White Flower, and Goitne Gorm-Shuileach, the Blue-eyed Spear, and Sine Sindearg, of the Red Ring, and Donall Donn-Ruadh, of the Red-brown Hair.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3
And with that he started up and made an attack on the Fomor, killing and wounding them, till he had made an end of eight nines of them, but he let the last nine go under the protection of Nuada the king.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3 · 📍 [[Lochlann]]
“Do you know who is the young man?” said Balor of the Evil Eye then. “I know well,” said Ceithlenn, his wife; “he is the son of your daughter and mine. And it was foretold,” she said, “that from the time he would come into Ireland, we would never have power there again for ever.”
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3 · just at that time
And it was just at that time Bres and his father Elathan were come to ask help of the Fomor, and Bres said: “I myself will go to Ireland, and seven great battalions of the Riders of the Fomor along with me, and I will give battle to this Ildánach, this master of all arts, and I will strike his head off and bring it here to you, to the green of Berbhe.” “It would be a fitting thing for you to do,” said they all.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
So they made no delay, but went and got the ships ready, and they put plenty of food and drink in them, and the two swift Luaths were sent out to gather the army to Bres. And when they were all gathered, they made ready their armour and their weapons, and they set out for Ireland.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3 · 📍 [[Lochlann]]
And Balor the king followed them to the harbour, and he said: “Give battle to that Ildánach, and strike off his head; and tie that island that is called Ireland to the back of your ships, and let the destroying water take its place, and put it on the north side of Lochlann, and not one of the Men of Dea will follow it there to the end of life and time.”
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 3 · 📍 [[West Connacht]]
And they never turned from their course till they came to the harbour of Eas Dara. And from that they sent out an army through West Connacht and destroyed it altogether, through and through.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1 · 📍 [[Eas Dara]] · at that time
And Lugh of the Long Hand was at that time at Teamhair with the King of Ireland, and it was showed to him that the Fomor were after landing at Eas Dara.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
But Nuada was not minded to avenge the destruction that was done on Bodb Dearg and not on himself, and Lugh was not well pleased with his answer, and he went riding out of Teamhair westward.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1
"Each one of us will keep off a hundred from you in the battle," said they. "That is a good help," said Lugh; "but there is a help I would sooner have from you than that: to gather the Riders of the Sidhe to me from every place where they are."
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1 · 📍 [[Plain of Muirthemne]]
Then Cian said: "If my two brothers had been here it is a brave fight we would make; but since they are not, it is best for me to fall back." Then he saw a great herd of pigs near him, and he struck himself with a Druid rod that put on him the shape of a pig of the herd, and he began rooting up the ground like the rest.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1 · 📍 [[Plain of Muirthemne]]
And while he was saying that, he struck his two brothers with his Druid rod, and he turned them into two thin, fast hounds, and they began to yelp sharply on the track of the enchanted pig.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 1 · at the end of that time
And Bodb Dearg, son of the Dagda, came with twenty-nine hundred men, and he said:
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 2 · 📍 [[Magh Mor an Aonaigh]] · After the battle of Magh Mor an Aonaigh
When Bres saw that, he gave himself up to Lugh's protection. "Give me my life this time," he said, "and I will bring the whole race of the Fomor to fight it out with you in a great battle; and I bind myself to that, by the sun and the moon, the sea and the land," he said.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 2
So then Bres and the Druids set out for their own country.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 2
And when Lugh came to that place the earth spoke to him, and it said: "It is in great danger your father was here, Lugh, when he saw the sons of Tuireann before him, and it is into the shape of a pig he had to go, but it is in his own shape they killed him."
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · when Lugh came to Teamhair
Then Lugh bade his people to shake the chain of silence, and they did so, and they all listened. And Lugh said: "What are your minds fixed on at this time, Men of Dea?" "On yourself indeed," said they. "I have a question to ask of you," he said. "What is the vengeance each one of you would take on the man that would kill your father?"
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
Then Brian, son of Tuireann, said: "It is at us you are speaking, Lugh, for you are thinking we went against the sons of Cainte before now; and we did not kill your father," he said, "but we will pay the fine for him the same as if we did kill him."
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
"Here it is," said Lugh; "three apples, and the skin of a pig, and a spear, and two horses, and a chariot, and seven pigs, and a dog's whelp, and a cooking-spit, and three shouts on a hill. That is the fine I am asking," he said;
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 4 · 📍 [[the Garden in the East of the World]]
And they flew towards the garden, and the watchers took notice of them and shouted on every side of them, and threw showers of spears and darts, but the hawks kept out of their reach as Brian had bade them, till all the spears were spent, and then they swept down bravely on the apples, and brought them away with them, without so much as a wound.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 4 · 📍 [[the sea]]
With that he struck himself and his brothers with the Druid rod, and they were turned into three swans, and they went down quickly into the sea, and the ospreys went away from them then, and the sons of Tuireann went into their boat.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 4 · 📍 [[the court of the King of Greece]]
However, they put the poet's tie on their hair, and they knocked at the door of the court, and the door-keeper asked who was in it. "We are poets of Ireland," said Brian, "and we are come with a poem to the king."
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 4 · 📍 [[the court of the King of Greece]]
But I will give you three times the full of the skin of gold as the price of your poem," he said.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 5
And then Brian went to where the king himself was, and the king made no delay in attacking him, and they made a hard fight of it, and at the end the King of Greece fell by the hand of Brian, son of Tuireann.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 5
And Brian was watching the horses closely, and on a sudden he took hold of the chariot and took the chariot driver out and dashed him against the nearest rock, and made a leap into his place himself, and made a cast of the Persian spear at the king, that went through his heart.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6
Then the king whispered and took advice with his people about the matter, and it is what they agreed, to give up the pigs of their own free will to the sons of Tuireann, since they could not see that any one had been able to stand against them up to that time.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6 · 📍 [[Ioruaidh]]
"Give me one request," said Easal, "and that is to bring me with you to the King of Ioruaidh, for a daughter of mine is his wife, and I would wish to persuade him to give you the whelp without a battle."
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6 · 📍 [[Ioruaidh]]
Brian Iuchar Iucharba King of Ioruaidh
And at the last Brian overcame the king, and bound him, and brought him through the middle of the army, till he came to the place where Easal was, and it is what he said: "There is your son-in-law for you, and I swear by my hand of valour, I would think it easier to kill him three times than to bring him to you once like this."
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6 · 📍 [[Ioruaidh]]
Easal Brian Iuchar Iucharba King of Ioruaidh
So then the whelp was given to the sons of Tuireann, and the king was unbound, and peace was made between them.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6
And on that he sent a Druid spell after them to put forgetfulness on them of the rest of the fine that they had not got. And he put a great desire and longing on them to go back to Ireland; so they forgot that a part of the fine was wanting to them, and they turned back again toward home.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
And he went into the city of Teamhair, and shut the gate after him, and he put on Manannan's smooth armour, and the cloak, of the daughters of Flidais, and he took his own arms in his hand.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 6 · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinn]]
And the sons of Tuireann came where the king was, and they were made welcome by him and by the Tuatha de Danaan. And the king asked them did they get the fine. "We did get it," said they; "and where is Lugh till we give it to him?"
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
So the sons of Tuireann did that, and when the king had taken the fine they all went to the palace in Teamhair; and Lugh came out on the lawn and the fine was given to him, and it is what he said: "There is a good payment here for any one that ever was killed or that ever will be killed. But there is something wanting to it yet that it is not lawful to leave out. And where is the cooking-spit?" he said; "and where are the three shouts on the hill that you did not give yet?"
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7 · 📍 [[Hill of Miochaoin]]
And when they came there, Miochaoin, that was the guardian of the hill, came towards them; and when Brian saw him he attacked him, and the fight of those two champions was like the fight of two lions, till Miochaoin fell at the last.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7 · 📍 [[Hill of Miochaoin]]
Brian Core Conn (son of Miochaoin) Aedh (son of Miochaoin)
The names of the sons of Miochaoin were Core and Conn and Aedh, and they drove their three spears through the bodies of the sons of Tuireann, and that did not discourage them at all and they put their own three spears through the bodies of the sons of Miochaoin, so that they fell into the clouds and the faintness of death.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7 · 📍 [[Hill of Miochaoin]]
Then Brian rose up and raised each of them with one hand, and he shedding blood heavily all the time, until they gave the three shouts.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
Then Tuireann went to Teamhair, and he found Lugh of the Long Hand before him, and he gave him the spit, and he asked the skin of him to heal his children, and Lugh said he would not give it And Tuireann came back to them and told them he had not got the skin.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7
So they went to Lugh, and Brian asked the skin of him. And Lugh said he would not give it, and that if they would give him the breadth of the earth in gold for it, he would not take it from them, unless he was sure their death would come on them in satisfaction for the deed they had done.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Sons of Tuireann · Part 7
When Brian heard that, he went to the place his two brothers were, and he lay down between them, and his life went out from him, and out from the other two at the same time. And their father cried and lamented over his three beautiful sons, that had the making of a king of Ireland in each of them, and his strength left him and he died; and they were buried in the one grave.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 1 · 📍 [[Scetne]] · not long after Lugh had got the fine from the sons of Tuireann
Indech De Domnann Elathan (son of Lobos) Octriallach Elathan (son of Delbaeth)
The whole host of the Fomor were come this time, and their king, Balor, of the Strong Blows and of the Evil Eye, along with them; and Bres, and Indech, son of De Domnann, a king of the Fomor, and Elathan, son of Lobos, and Goll and Ingol, and Octriallach, son of Indech, and Elathan, son of Delbaeth.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 1
Then Lugh sent the Dagda to spy out the Fomor, and to delay them till such time as the men of Ireland would come to the battle.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 1
So the Dagda went to their camp, and he asked them for a delay, and they said he might have that. And then to make sport of him, the Fomor made broth for him, for he had a great love for broth. So they filled the king's cauldron with four times twenty gallons of new milk, and the same of meal and fat, and they put in goats and sheep and pigs along with that, and boiled all together, and then they poured it all out into a great hole in the ground. And they called him to it then, and told him he should eat his fill, the way the Fomor would not be reproached for want of hospitality the way Bres was. "We will make an end of you if you leave any part of it after you," said Indech, son of De Domnann.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 1 · 📍 [[the river Unius of Connacht]]
Morrigu Dagda Indech De Domnann
And on his way he saw the Battle-Crow, the Morrigu, washing herself in the river Unius of Connacht, and one of her two feet at Ullad Echne, to the south of the water, and the other at Loscuinn, to the north of the water, and her hair hanging in nine loosened locks. And she said to the Dagda, that she would bring the heart's blood of Indech, son of De Domnann, that had threatened him, to the men of Ireland.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2
Then Lugh spoke to the whole army and put strength in them, so that each one had the spirit in him of a king or a great lord.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[the well of Slaine]] · every day
And Diancecht and his son Octruil and his daughter Airmed used to be singing spells over the well and to be putting herbs in it; and the men that were wounded to death in the battle would be brought to the well and put into it as dead men, and they would come out of it whole and sound, through the power of the spells.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2
And after the spear being given to Ruadan, he turned and threw it at Goibniu, that it wounded him. But Goibniu pulled it out and made a cast of it at Ruadan, that it went through him and he died; and Bres, his father, and the army of the Fomor, saw him die.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[the well]] · after that
And as to Goibniu, he went into the well and was healed.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[the well of Slane]] · after that
But after that Octriallach, son of Indech, called to the Fomor and bade each man of them bring a stone of the stones of Drinnes and throw them into the well of Slane. And they did that till the well was dried up, and a cairn raised over it, that is called Octriallach's Cairn.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · while Goibniu was making spear-heads for the battle of Magh Tuireadh
And it is what he did, there was a spear-shaft in his hand when he heard the story, Nes its name was; and he sang spells over the spear-shaft, and any one that was struck with that spear afterwards, it would burn him up like fire.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[Magh Tuireadh]] · for a while
And Cass-mail fell by Octriallach, and the Dagda got a dreadful wound from a casting spear that was thrown by Ceithlenn, wife of Balor.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[Magh Tuireadh]] · when the battle was going on
But when the battle was going on, Lugh broke away from those that were keeping him, and rushed out to the front of the Men of Dea.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3
Then they raised Balor's eyelid, but Lugh made a cast of his red spear at him, that brought the eye out through the back of his head, so that it was towards his own army it fell, and three times nine of the Fomor died when they looked at it. And if Lugh had not put out that eye when he did, the whole of Ireland would have been burned in one flash. And after this, Lugh struck his head off.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3
Then the harp sprang from the wall, and came to the Dagda, and it killed nine men on its way.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3
And then he played for them the three things harpers understand, the sleepy tune, and the laughing tune, and the crying tune. And when he played the crying tune, their tearful women cried, and then he played the laughing tune, till their women and children laughed; and then he played the sleepy tune, and all the hosts fell asleep. And through that sleep the three went away through the Fomor that would have been glad to harm them.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3
And when all was over, the Dagda brought out the heifer he had got as wages from Bres at the time he was making his dun. And she called to her calf, and at the sound of her call all the cattle of Ireland the Fomor had brought away as tribute, were back in their fields again.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3 · 📍 [[Nas]] · then
And Lugh was made king over the Men of Dea then, and it was at Nas he had his court.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3 · while he was king
And while he was king, his foster-mother Taillte, daughter of Magh Mor, the Great Plain, died.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3 · 📍 [[wood of Cuan]] · within a month
So he called to the men of Ireland to cut down the wood with their wide-bladed knives and bill-hooks and hatchets, and within a month the whole wood was cut down.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3 · 📍 [[plain of Midhe]]
And Lugh buried her in the plain of Midhe, and raised a mound over her, that is to be seen to this day. And he ordered fires to be kindled, and keening to be made, and games and sports to be held in the summer of every year out of respect to her.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 3 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · after the battle of Magh Tuireadh
And as to Lugh's own mother, that was tall beautiful Ethlinn, she came to Teamhair after the battle of Magh Tuireadh, and he gave her in marriage to Tadg, son of Nuada.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh · 📍 [[Ireland]]
And Lugh went away out of Ireland, and some said he died at Uisnech, the place where the five provinces meet, and the first place there was ever a fire kindled in Ireland.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh · 📍 [[Ireland]] · at the time of Cuchulain's birth
But Lugh was seen again in Ireland at the time Conchubar and the Men of the Red Branch went following white birds southward to the Boinn at the time of Cuchulain's birth. And it was he came and kept watch over Cuchulain in his three days' sleep at the time of the War for the Bull of Cuailgne.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · on this day
And on this day he chanced to stand upon a stone that was in the rath, and the stone screamed under his feet, that it was heard all over Teamhair and as far as Bregia.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · at the end of that time
And when the stone screamed under your feet," he said, "the number of the screams it gave was a foretelling of the number of kings of your race that would come after you.
The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Hidden House of Lugh
Conn of the Hundred Battles Lugh
And the master of the house told them the young woman was the Kingship of Ireland for ever. "And as for myself," he said, "I am Lugh of the Long Hand, son of Ethlinn."
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 1 · 📍 [[Inver Slane]]
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 1 · 📍 [[Inver Sceine]] · at last
And when they were hindered from landing there by enchantments, they went sailing along the coast till at last they were able to make a landing at Inver Sceine in the west of Munster.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · at that time
Miled Amergin Cermait Honey-Mouth
And Amergin went to them, and it is what he said, that they must give up the kingship there and then, or they must leave it to the chance of a battle.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · at that time
When the sons of Cermait Honey-Mouth heard Amergin saying such fierce words, there was wonder on them, and it is what they said, that they were not willing to fight at that time, for their army was not ready. "But let you make an offer to us," they said, "for we see well you have good judgment and knowledge. But if you make an offer that is not fair," they said, "we will destroy you with our enchantments."
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2 · 📍 [[Inver Sceine]]
At that Amergin bade the men that were with him to go back to Inver Sceine, and to hurry again into their ships with the rest of the Sons of the Gael, and to go out the length of nine waves from the shore.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2
And then he made his offer to the Tuatha de Danaan, that if they could hinder his men from landing on their island, he and all his ships would go back again to their own country, and would never make any attempt to come again; but that if the Sons of the Gael could land on the coast in spite of them, then the Tuatha de Danaan should give up the kingship and be under their sway.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2
But a great blast of wind came against him, and he fell back into the ship and died on the moment.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2
And the ship that Donn, son of Miled, was in command of was parted from the others by the dint of the storm, and was broken in pieces, and he himself and all with him were drowned, four-and-twenty men and women in all.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2 · 📍 [[Sceilg Michill]]
And Ir, son of Miled, came to his death in the same way, and his body was cast on the shore, and it was buried in a small island that is now called Sceilg Michill.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2 · 📍 [[Inver Colpa]]
And the place where he landed was called Inver Colpa, because Colpa of the Sword, another of the sons of Miled, was drowned there, and he trying to get to land.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2 · After he had said this
After he had said this, the wind went down and the sea was quiet again on the moment.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2 · 📍 [[Inver Sceine]] · then
And those that were left of the sons of Miled and of the Sons of the Gael landed then at Inver Sceine.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Landing · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
And Amergin was the first to put his foot on land, and when he stood on the shore of Ireland, it is what he said:
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Battle of Tailltin · 📍 [[Tailltin]] · three days after the landing of the Gael
And Eriu was beaten back to Tailltin, and as many of her men as she could hold together;
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Battle of Tailltin · 📍 [[a valley at the foot of the mountain]]
It was in that battle Fais, wife of Un, was killed in a valley at the foot of the mountain, and it was called after her, the Valley of Fais.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Battle of Tailltin · 📍 [[a valley on the north side of the mountain near the sea]]
And Scota, wife of Miled, got her death in the battle, and she was buried in a valley on the north side of the mountain near the sea.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Battle of Tailltin · 📍 [[Tailltin]]
And their three kings were killed in the rout, and the three queens of Ireland, Eriu and Fodhla and Banba.
The Gods · The Coming of the Gael · The Battle of Tailltin · 📍 [[Ireland]]
Heber took the two provinces of Munster, and he gave a share of it to Amergin; and Heremon got Leinster and Connacht for his share, and Ulster was divided between Eimhir, son of Ir, son of Miled, and some others of their chief men.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
And because Manannan, son of Lir, understood all enchantments, they left it to him to find places for them where they would be safe from their enemies. So he chose out the most beautiful of the hills and valleys of Ireland for them to settle in; and he put hidden walls about them, that no man could see through, but they themselves could see through them and pass through them.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 1
And he made the Feast of Age for them, and what they drank at it was the ale of Goibniu the Smith, that kept whoever tasted it from age and from sickness and from death. And for food at the feast he gave them his own swine, that though they were killed and eaten one day, would be alive and fit for eating again the next day, and that would go on in that way for ever.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 1 · at that time
Then all the chief men but those five went into council together, and it is what they agreed, to give the kingship to Bodb Dearg, for the sake of his father, for his own sake, and because he was the eldest among the children of the Dagda.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 1 · after the passing away of the Fianna
Angus (son of Bodb Dearg) Artrach Aedh (son of Bodb Dearg)
But after the passing away of the Fianna, the three brothers went back to the Tuatha de Danaan.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 1 · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinn]] · one time
Eochaid (son of Lugaidh Menn) Fiacha (son of Lugaidh Menn) Ruide Lugaidh Menn
Three sons of Lugaidh Menn, King of Ireland, Eochaid, and Fiacha, and Ruide, went there one time, for their father refused them any land till they would win it for themselves. And when he said that, they rose with the ready rising of one man, and went and sat down on the green of Brugh na Boinn, and fasted there on the Tuatha de Danaan, to see if they could win some good thing from them.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 2 · in the time of the Fianna
And Bodb Dearg had a daughter, Scathniamh, the Flower of Brightness, that gave her love to Caoilte in the time of the Fianna; and they were forced to part from one another, and they never met again till the time Caoilte was, old and withered, and one of the last that was left of the Fianna.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 2 · 📍 [[the cave of Cruachan]] · till the time Caoilte was, old and withered
And she came to him out of the cave of Cruachan, and asked him for the bride-price he had promised her, and that she was never able to come and ask for till then.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Bodb Dearg · Part 2 · till the time Caoilte was, old and withered
And Caoilte went to a cairn that was near and that was full up of gold, that was wages earned by Conan Maol and hidden there, and he gave the gold to Bodb Dearg's daughter.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]] · in the end
So Angus asked for the Brugh, and his father gave it to him for a day and a night. But when he asked it back again, it is what Angus said, that it had been given to him for ever, for the whole of life and time is made up of a day and a night, one following after the other.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda
So when the Dagda heard that he went away and his people and his household with him, for Manannan had put an enchantment on them all.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda · while they were there
Corrgenn Aedh (son of the Dagda)
And great jealousy and anger came on him, and he struck at the young man and killed him before his father's face.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda · then and there
So he spared his life for that time, but if he did, Corrgenn did not gain much by it. For the punishment he put on him was to take the dead body of the young man on his back, and never to lay it down till he would find a stone that would be its very fit in length and in breadth, and that would make a gravestone for him; and when he had found that, he could bury him in the nearest hill.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda · 📍 [[Loch Feabhail]] · at last
And it is many an Ochone! he gave when he was putting the stone over him, and when he had that done he was spent, and he dropped dead there and then.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda · 📍 [[Hill of Aileac]]
And the Dagda brought his two builders, Garbhan and Imheall, to the place, and he bade them build a rath there round the grave.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Angus Og · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinn]] · sometimes
And as to Angus Og, son of the Dagda, sometimes he would come from Brugh na Boinn and let himself be seen upon the earth.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Angus Og · 📍 [[Broga]] · one time
And the sons of Derc came from the north, out of Sidhe Findabrach, and they went round about the young men and women without their knowledge and they brought away Elcmair's daughter.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Angus Og · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinn]] · in the time of Maeve of Cruachan
And it was in the time of Maeve of Cruachan that Angus set his love on Caer Ormaith, of the Province of Connacht, and brought her away to Brugh na Boinn.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Morrigu · 📍 [[Magh Luathad]]
And Mac Cecht burned the three hearts on Magh Luathad, the Plain of Ashes, and he threw the ashes into the stream; and the rushing water of the stream stopped and boiled up, and every creature in it died.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Morrigu · 📍 [[the Cave of Cruachan]] · one time
Morrigu Odras
And the Morrigu awoke her and sang spells over her, and made of her a pool of water that went to the river that flows to the west of Slieve Buane.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Morrigu · 📍 [[the battle of Cluantarbh]] · at the battle of Cluantarbh
Morrigu Murchadh Brian (father of Murchadh)
And after that again at the battle of Cluantarbh, she was flying over the head of Murchadh, son of Brian; for she had many shapes, and it was in the shape of a crow she would sometimes fight her battles.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aine · one time
Oilioll Oluim, a king of Ireland, killed her brother one time, and it is
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aine · 📍 [[Luimnech]]
she made a great yew-tree by enchantment beside the river Maigh in Luimnech, and she put a little man in it, playing sweet music on a harp.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aine
they asked a judgment from Oilioll, and he gave it for his own son.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aine · 📍 [[Magh Mucruimhe]]
And it was the bad feeling about that judgment that led to the battle of Magh Mucruimhe, and Oilioll and his seven sons were killed there, and so Aine got her revenge.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell · 📍 [[Craig Liath]]
And Aoibhell, another woman of the Sidhe, made her dwelling-place in Craig Liath, and at the time of the battle of Cluantarbh she set her love on a young man of Munster, Dubhlaing ua Artigan, that had been sent away in disgrace by the King of Ireland.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell · before the battle
But before the battle he came back to join with Murchadh, the king's son, and to fight for the Gael.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell
And Aoibhell came to stop him; and when he would not stop with her she put a Druid covering about him, the way no one could see him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell
Aoibhell Dubhlaing ua Artigan Murchadh
"Stop with me, Dubhlaing," she said then, "and you will have two hundred years of happy life with myself."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell
"I will not give up Murchadh," he said, "or my own good name, for silver or gold."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell · to-morrow
Aoibhell Dubhlaing ua Artigan Murchadh
And there was anger on Aoibhell when he said that, and she said: "Murchadh will fall, and you yourself will fall, and your proud blood will be on the plain to-morrow."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell
And they went back into the battle, and got their death there.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1 · 📍 [[Midhir's hill]]
And Cochlan, Leith's servant, got a sharp wound from them and he died.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1 · 📍 [[Midhir's hill]]
Then the girl turned back to Midhir's hill, and her heart broke in her and she died.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1 · After a while
After a while Midhir took Etain Echraide to be his wife.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1
she called to the Druid, Bresal Etarlaim to help her, and he put spells on Etain the way Fuamach was able to drive her away.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1
And when she was driven out of Bri Leith, Angus Og, son of the Dagda, took her into his keeping; and when Midhir asked her back, he would not give her up, but he brought her about with him to every place he went.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1 · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinn]]
And when Angus was away from Brugh na Boinn, Fuamach went and found Etain there, in her sunny house. And she turned her with Druid spells into a fly, and then she sent a blast of wind into the house, that swept her away through the window.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 1 · 📍 [[Inver Cechmaine]] · at the end of nine months
And Etar's wife drank her down with the wine, and at the end of nine months she was born again as Etar's daughter.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
And Eochaid gave her his love, and he paid the bride-price, and brought her home to Teamhair as his wife, and there was a great welcome before her there.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · when he saw his brother's wife Etain
And when he saw his brother's wife Etain, he fell in love with her on the moment, and all through the length of the feast he was not content unless he could be looking at her.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teffia]] · through the length of a year
But when the feast was at an end, and the gathering broken up, great desire and envy came on Ailell, so that he fell sick, and they brought him to a house in Teffia. And he stopped there through the length of a year, and he was wasting away, but he told no one the cause of his sickness.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2 · at the end of the year
And at the end of the year, Eochaid came to visit his brother, and he passed his hand over his breast, and Ailell let a groan.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2
With that he sent Fachtna, his own physician, to Ailell; and when he came he passed his hand over Ailell's heart, and at that he groaned again. "This sickness will not be your death," said Fachtna then; "and I know well what it comes from. It is either from the pains of jealousy, or from love you have given, and that you have not found a way out of."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2
Eochaid Airem Etain Echraide Ailell
As to King Eochaid, he went away to visit all the provinces of Ireland that were under his kingship, and he left Etain after him, and it is what he said: "Good Etain," he said, "take tender care of Ailell so long as he is living; and if he should die from us, make a sodded grave for him, and raise a pillar stone over it, and write his name on it in Ogham."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 2 · at last one day
Then he put his arms about her, and she kissed him, and she said: "Come at the morning of to-morrow at the break of day to the house outside the dun, and I will give you all your desire."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 3 · in the time long ago
For in the time long ago," he said, "I was your first husband, and your first man." "What is it you are saying," she said, "and who are you yourself?" "It is easy to tell that," he said; "I am Midhir of Bri Leith." "And what parted us if I was your wife?" said Etain. "It was through Fuamach's sharp jealousy and through the spells of Bresal Etarlaim, the Druid, we were parted.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 3
And when she went back to Ailell's house, she found his sickness was gone from him, and his desire. And she told him all that had happened, and he said: "It has turned out well for us both: I am well of my sickness and your good name is not lessened."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 3 · just at that time
Etain Echraide Eochaid Airem Ailell
And just at that time Eochaid came back from his journey, and they told him the whole story, and he was thankful to his wife for the kindness she had showed to Ailell.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · One day, after that time
"And will you come there with me, Etain?" he said. But Etain said she would not leave Eochaid the High King. "Will you come if Eochaid gives you leave?" Midhir said then. "I will do that," said Etain.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · One day, after that time
"What is your name?" said the king. "It is nothing very great," said he; "I am called Midhir of Bri Leith." "What is it brings you here?" said Eochaid. "I am come to play a game of chess with you," said the stranger.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4
And it was after Eochaid taught his people to yoke them that way, he was given the name of Eochaid Airem, that is, of the Plough.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · At the end of the month
With that he took his sword in his left hand, and he took Etain in his right arm and kissed her. All the armed men in the house made a rush at him then, but he rose up through the roof bringing Etain with him, and when they rushed out of the house to follow him, all they could see was two swans high up in the air, linked together by a chain of gold.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
Eochaid Airem Midhir Etain Echraide
There was great anger on Eochaid then, and he went and searched all through Ireland, but there were no tidings of them to be had, for they were in the houses of the Sidhe.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4 · 📍 [[Bri Leith]]
Then they went to Bri Leith; and Etain's daughter Esa came to them there, and she brought a hundred of every sort of cattle with her, and Midhir fostered her for seven years.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4 · 📍 [[Bri Leith]] · for nine years
Eochaid Airem Midhir Etain Echraide
So Eochaid went there, and made an attack on the place, and he was for nine years besieging it, and Midhir was driving him away. And then his people began digging through the hill; and when they were getting near to where Etain was, Midhir sent three times twenty beautiful women, having all of them the appearance of Etain, and he bade the king choose her out from among them. And the first he chose was his own daughter Esa. But then Etain called to him, and he knew her, and he brought her home to Teamhair.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4 · 📍 [[Rath Esa]]
And Eochaid gave his daughter Esa her choice of a place for herself. And she chose it, and made a rath there, that got the name of Rath Esa.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Midhir and Etain · Part 4 · 📍 [[Da Derga's Inn]] · afterwards
But there was great anger on Midhir and his people because of their hill being attacked and dug into. And it was in revenge for that insult they brought Conaire, High King of Ireland, that was grandson of Eochaid and of Etain, to his death afterwards at Da Derga's Inn.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan · 📍 [[Magh Cuilenn]]
And some said he was dead, and that he got his death by Uillenn Faebarderg, of the Red Edge, in battle.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan · 📍 [[Loch Orbson]]
And it is what they said, that the battle was fought at Magh Cuilenn, and that Manannan was buried standing on his feet, and no sooner was he buried than a great lake burst up under his feet in the place that was a red bog till that time. And the lake got the name of Loch Orbson, from one of the names of Manannan.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan · 📍 [[Emhain of the Apple Trees]]
Manannan [[Deirdre]]
And it was he brought up Deirdre's children in Emhain of the Apple Trees
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan
Manannan Conchubar
And Manannan said he would give him no help, for he had told him at the time he brought Deirdre away that she would be the cause of the breaking up of his kingdom, and he took her away in spite of him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan · 📍 [[Inver Glas]]
But a wave of the flood-tide came over the girl, and she was drowned, and Manannan killed Fer Ferdiad in his anger.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 1 · 📍 [[Bel-atha Senaig]] · one time
Aodh Dubh O'Donnell Duartane O'Duartane
And it is the way it happened, Aodh Dubh O'Donnell was holding a feast one time in Bel-atha Senaig, and his people were boasting of the goodness of his house and of his musicians.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 1 · 📍 [[Bel-atha Senaig]] · between this and morning
Aodh Dubh O'Donnell Duartane O'Duartane
When the men that were watching the gate heard that, they lifted up their axes to strike at him, but in their haste it was at one another they struck, till they were all lying stretched in blood.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 1 · 📍 [[Bel-atha Senaig]]
Aodh Dubh O'Donnell Duartane O'Duartane
So the gate-keeper did that, and he got the cows and the land from O'Donnell, and he brought all the people to life again.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 1 · on the morrow
Seaghan, Son of the Earl Duartane O'Duartane
But when the stranger heard how he was being mocked at, he took up the book, and read from the top to the bottom of the page very well and in a sweet-sounding voice. And after that he took the harp and played and sang the same way he did at O'Donnell's house the day before.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 2 · 📍 [[Munster]]
And he joined with the men of Connacht, and they went over the Sionnan westward into Munster, and there they hunted and drove every creature that could be made travel, cattle and horses and flocks, into one place, till they got the hornless bull of the Munster hag and her two speckled cows, and O'Conchubar brought them away to give to the Connacht hag in satisfaction for her basket.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 2 · 📍 [[Connacht]]
So the Gilla Decair turned on them, and with his bow and twenty-four arrows he kept them back till O'Conchubar and his people were safe out of their reach in Connacht.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 2 · on the moment
But he took some offence then, on account of O'Conchubar taking the first drink himself when they came to his house, and not giving it to him, that had done so much, and he took his leave and went from them on the moment.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Manannan at Play · Part 2
But he did no harm, and those that would be put to death by him, he would bring them to life again with a herb out of his bag.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · One time
And when he awoke from his sleep he saw beside him a branch of silver, and it having white blossoms, and the whiteness of the silver was the same as the whiteness of the blossoms.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran
Then on the morrow Bran set out upon the sea, and three companies of nine along with him; and one of his foster-brothers and comrades was set over each company of nine.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · after they had been rowing for two days and two nights
And when they had been rowing for two days and two nights, they saw a man coming towards them in a chariot, over the sea. And the man made himself known to them, and he said that he was Manannan, son of Lir.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 [[the Island of Joy]]
Bran put one of his men on the island then, but he joined with the others, and began to stare the same way as the men of the island.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 [[the Land of Women]] · It was not long after that
It was not long after that they reached to the Land of Women. And they saw the chief one of the women at the landing-place, and it is what she said: "Come hither to land, Bran, son of Febal, it is welcome your coming is."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 [[the Land of Women]]
On that they went into a grand house, where there was a bed for every couple, three times nine beds. And the food that was put on every dish never came to an end, and they had every sort of food and of drink they wished for.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 [[the Land of Women]] · they were only a year there
And it seemed to them they were only a year there when the desire of home took hold on one of them, Nechtan, son of Collbrain, and his kinsmen were begging and praying Bran to go back with him to Ireland.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 [[Ireland]]
The woman said there would be repentance on them if they went; but in spite of that they set out in the end.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 [[Srub Bruin]]
And there were people on the strand that asked them who they were that were coming over the sea. And Bran said: "I am Bran, son of Febal." But the people said: "We know of no such man, though the voyage of Bran is in our very old stories."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · no sooner did he touch the shore of Ireland
Then Nechtan, son of Collbrain, made a leap out of the curragh, and no sooner did he touch the shore of Ireland than he was a heap of ashes, the same as if he had been in the earth through hundreds of years.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · after that
And then Bran told the whole story of his wanderings to the people, from the beginning. And after that he bade them farewell, and his wanderings from that time are not known.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
"Give me your branch along with it," said Cormac. "I will give it," said the stranger, "if you will give me the three gifts I ask in return." "I will give them to you indeed," said Cormac.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 1 · At the end of a year
At the end of a year the strange man came back again, and he asked for the first of his three requests. "You will get it," said Cormac. "I will take your daughter, Aille, to-day," said the stranger. So he brought away the girl with him, and the women of Ireland gave three loud cries after the king's daughter.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · That day month
That day month the stranger came again, and he brought Cormac's son, Carpre Lifecar, away with him. There was crying and lamenting without end in Teamhair after the boy, and on that night no one ate or slept, and they were all under grief and very downhearted.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 1 · Then
Then the stranger came the third time, and Cormac asked him what did he want. "It is your wife, Ethne, I am asking this time," he said. And he went away then, bringing Ethne, the queen, along with him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 1 · 📍 [[the Plain of the Wall]] · in the middle of the Plain of the Wall
But in the middle of the Plain of the Wall, a thick mist came on them, and when it was gone, Cormac found himself alone on a great plain.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 2
So Cormac told them how his wife, and his son, and his daughter, had been brought away from him, and how he himself had followed them till he came to that place.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 2
Bring away your wife and your children with you now," he said, "and this cup along with them, the way you will have it for judging between truth and untruth. And I will leave the branch with you for music and delight, but on the day of your death they will be taken from you again.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · on the morning of the morrow
And on the morning of the morrow, when Cormac rose up, he found himself on the green of Teamhair, and his wife, and his son, and his daughter, along with him, and he having his branch and his cup.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Three Calls to Cormac · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ireland]] · after the night of Cormac's death
But it was not left in Ireland after the night of Cormac's death, as Manannan had foretold him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Cliodna's Wave · 📍 [[the Strand of the Cairn]]
He bade farewell to his people then, and he left them very sorrowful after him, for to part with him was like the parting of life from the body.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Cliodna's Wave · 📍 [[Tir Tairngaire]]
"There is," said the rider, "that you would give your service to whoever would give you his help." Ciabhan agreed to that, and he put his hand into the rider's hand.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Cliodna's Wave · 📍 [[the strand]] · then
And then a great wave came up on the strand and swept her away.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla · 📍 [[Tir-nam-Beo]]
And it is likely it was Manannan sent his messenger for Connla of the Red Hair the time he went away out of Ireland, for it is to his country Connla was brought; and this is the way he got the call.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla · 📍 [[Hill of Uisnach]] · one day
Connla of the Red Hair Conn of the Hundred Battles
It chanced one day he was with his father Conn, King of Teamhair, on the Hill of Uisnach, and he saw a woman having wonderful clothing coming towards him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla · when she was being driven away by the spells of the Druid
But when she was being driven away by the spells of the Druid, she threw an apple to Connla.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla · through the length of a month from that time
And through the length of a month from that time, Connla used no other food nor drink but that apple, for he thought no other food or drink worth the using.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla · 📍 [[Magh Archomnim]] · at the end of a month
And at the end of a month Connla was at his father's side in Magh Archomnim, and he saw the same woman coming towards him, and it is what she said: "It is a high place indeed Connla has among dying people, and death before him. But the Ever-Living Living Ones," she said, "are asking you to take the sway over the people of Tethra, for they are looking at you every day in the gatherings of your country among your dear friends."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Connla
Connla of the Red Hair Conn of the Hundred Battles
And when the woman had ended her song, Connla made a leap from his people into the shining boat, and they saw him sailing away from them far off and as if in a mist, as far as their eyes could see.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1
Tadg (son of Cian) Cian (son of Olioll) Olioll
Tadg, son of Cian, son of Olioll;
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1 · 📍 [[Fresen]] · just at that time
Cathmann, son of Tabarn, that was king of the beautiful country of Fresen that lay to the south-east of the Great Plain, was searching the sea for what he could find just at that time, and nine of his ships with him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1 · 📍 [[Beire do Bhunadas]] · just at that time
Cathmann Tadg (son of Cian) Airnelach Eoghan (brother of Tadg) Liban
And Tadg's wife Liban, daughter of Conchubar Abratrudh of the Red Brows, and his two brothers, and a great many of the people of Munster, were taken by the foreigners and brought away to the coasts of Fresen.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1
And as to Tadg himself, it was only by his courage and the use of his sword he made his escape, but there was great grief and discouragement on him, his wife and his brothers to have been brought away.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1
And when Tadg heard that, he made a plan in his own head, and he gave orders for a curragh to be built that would be fit for a long voyage.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1 · When all was ready
When all was ready, and the curragh out in the tide, Tadg said to his people: "Let us set out now on the high sea, looking for our own people that are away from us this long time."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1
But Tadg took his spear that there was no escape from, and made a lucky cast at the ram and killed him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · then
Connla of the Red Hair Tadg (son of Cian)
"Who are you yourself?" Tadg asked him then. "I am son to Conn of the Hundred Battles," he said. "Is it Connla you are?" said Tadg. "I am indeed," said the young man, "and it is this girl of many shapes that brought me here."
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3
"Those birds will go with you," Cliodna said then; "they will give you guidance on your way, and they will make music for you, and there will be neither sorrow or sadness on you, by land or by sea, till you come to Ireland. And bring away this beautiful green cup with you," she said, "for there is power in it, and if you do but pour water into it, it will be turned to wine on the moment. And do not let it out of your hand,"
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · Then
Then Cliodna and Tadg bade farewell to one another, and she gave her blessing to him and to his people.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · through the whole length of a year
"It seems to us," they said, "we are not in it but one day only." "You are in it through the whole length of a year," said she, "and through all that time you used neither food nor drink.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · 📍 [[the country of Fresen]]
Then by the leading of the birds they came to the country of Fresen, and they were in a deep sleep through the whole voyage. And then they attacked the foreigners and got the better of them, and Tadg killed Cathmann, the king, after a hard fight;
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · 📍 [[the country of Fresen]]
Liban his wife made no delay, and came to meet her husband and her sweetheart, and it is glad she was to see him.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · 📍 [[Ireland]] · at the last
And after they had rested a while they faced the sea again, and Tadg and his wife Liban, and his two brothers, and a great many other treasures along with them, and they came home to Ireland safely at the last.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain
And my name,” he said, “is Fiachna, son of Betach, of the men of the Sidhe; and it is what ails me, my wife was taken from my pillow and brought away by Eochaid, son of Sal. And we fought together, and I killed him
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · 📍 [[the Plain of the Two Mists]] · on this very day
Seven battles I gave him, but they all went against me; and on this very day there is another to be fought, and I am come to ask help.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain
The two fifties attacked one another then, and Goll fell, but Laegaire and his fifty escaped with their lives and made a great slaughter of their enemies, that not one of them made his escape.
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · that night
And that night Fiachna's daughter, Deorgreine, a Tear of the Sun, was given to Laegaire as his wife
The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · 📍 [[Ireland]] · when they got back to Ireland
“Do not go from us again,” said Crimthan, his father, “and I will give you the sway over the three Connachts, their silver and their gold, their horses and their bridles, and their beautiful women, if you will not go from us.”
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1 · 📍 [[the gathering]] · after the battle of Tailltin
Now at the time when the Tuatha de Danaan chose a king for themselves after the battle of Tailltin, and Lir heard the kingship was given to Bodb Dearg, it did not please him, and he left the gathering without leave and with no word to any one; for he thought it was he himself had a right to be made king.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1
Messages and messengers were sent then from Bodb Dearg to the place Lir was, to say that if he had a mind to join with the Son of the Dagda and to acknowledge his lordship, he would give him a foster-child of his foster-children.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1 · 📍 [[Bodb's dwelling-place at Loch Dearg]] · that night
“It is my wish,” he said. And he took Aobh for his wife that night, and he stopped there for a fortnight, and then he brought her away to his own house, till he would make a great wedding-feast.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1 · in the course of time
Aobh Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir)
And in the course of time Aobh brought forth two children, a daughter and a son, Fionnuala and Aodh their names were.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1 · after a while
Aobh Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
And after a while she was brought to bed again, and this time she gave birth to two sons, and they called them Fiachra and Conn. And she herself died at their birth.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1
Bodb Dearg Lir Aoife (wife of Lir)
“It is a fret to us our daughter to have died, for her own sake and for the sake of the good man we gave her to, for we are thankful for his friendship and his faithfulness. However,” he said, “our friendship with one another will not be broken, for I will give him for a wife her sister Aoife.”
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1
When Lir heard that, he came for the girl and married her, and brought her home to his house.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 1 · 📍 [[Loch Dairbhreach]] · one day
Aoife (wife of Lir) Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
And as soon as Aoife saw them out in the lake she struck them with a Druid rod, and put on them the shape of four swans, white and beautiful.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 2
Aoife (wife of Lir) Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
And the bounds I set to your time are this, till the Woman from the South and the Man from the North will come together. And since you ask to hear it of me," she said, "no friends and no power that you have will be able to bring you out of these shapes you are in through the length of your lives, until you have been three hundred years on Loch Dairbhreach, and three hundred years on Sruth na Maoile between Ireland and Alban, and three hundred years at Irrus Domnann and Inis Gluaire; and these are to be your journeys from this out," she said.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 2
Aoife (wife of Lir) Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
But then repentance came on Aoife, and she said: "Since there is no other help for me to give you now, you may keep your own speech; and you will be singing sweet music of the Sidhe, that would put the men of the earth to sleep, and there will be no music in the world equal to it; and your own sense and your own nobility will stay with you, the way it will not weigh so heavy on you to be in the shape of birds.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 2 · 📍 [[the palace of Bodb Dearg]]
Aoife (wife of Lir) Bodb Dearg
And then the horses were caught for Aoife, and the chariot yoked for her, and she went on to the palace of Bodb Dearg, and there was a welcome before her from the chief people of the place. And the son of the Dagda asked her why she did not bring the children of Lir with her. "I will tell you that," she said. "It is because Lir has no liking for you, and he will not trust you with his children, for fear you might keep them from him altogether."
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 2 · 📍 [[Sidhe Fionnachaidh]]
And he thought in his own mind it was deceit the woman was doing on him, and it is what he did, he sent messengers to the north to Sidhe Fionnachaidh.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 2 · 📍 [[Loch Dairbhreach]] · early in the morning of the morrow
Lir Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
"I will tell you that, Lir," said Fionnuala. "We are your own four children, that are after being destroyed by your wife, and by the sister of our own mother, through the dint of her jealousy." "Is there any way to put you into your own shapes again?" said Lir. "There is no way," said Fionnuala, "for all the men of the world could not help us till we have gone through our time, and that will not be," she said, "till the end of nine hundred years."
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 2 · 📍 [[Loch Dairbhreach]] · that night
Lir Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
So Lir and his people stopped there listening to the music of the swans, and they slept there quietly that night.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 3 · there and then
Bodb Dearg Aoife
And with that he struck her with a Druid wand, and she was turned into a witch of the air there and then, and she went away on the wind in that shape, and she is in it yet, and will be in it to the end of life and time.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 3 · 📍 [[Sruth na Maoile]] · After that complaint
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
After that complaint they took to flight, lightly, airily, till they came to Sruth na Maoile between Ireland and Alban.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 3 · 📍 [[Sruth na Maoile]] · when midnight came
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
And when midnight came, the wind came on them with it, and the noise of the waves increased, and the lightning was flashing, and a rough storm came sweeping down, the way the children of Lir were scattered over the great sea, and the wideness of it set them astray, so that no one of them could know what way the others went.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 3 · 📍 [[the Rock of the Seals]] · after that storm
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir)
She stopped all night there upon the Rock of the Seals until the rising of the sun, looking out over the sea on every side till at last she saw Conn coming to her, his feathers wet through and his head hanging, and her heart gave him a great welcome; and then Fiachra came wet and perished and worn out, and he could not say a word they could understand with the dint of the cold and the hardship he had gone through. And Fionnuala put him under her wings, and she said: "We would be well off now if Aodh would but come to us." It was not long after that, they saw Aodh coming, his head dry and his feathers beautiful, and Fionnuala gave him a great welcome, and she put him in under the feathers of her breast, and Fiachra under her right wing and Conn under her left wing, the way she could put her feathers over them all.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 4 · 📍 [[Carraig na Ron]] · in the middle of winter
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir)
And they were on Carraig na Ron, and the water froze about them, and as they rested on the rock, their feet and their wings and their feathers froze to the rock, the way they were not able to move from it. And they made such a hard struggle to get away, that they left the skin of their feet and their feathers and the tops of their wings on the rock after them.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 4 · 📍 [[the Maoil]] · after they had suffered cold to the end of a year
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir)
And they were there by the shore under that hardship till such time as their feathers grew again, and their wings, and till their sores were entirely healed.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 4 · 📍 [[the mouth of the Banna]] · one day
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir) Aodh Aithfhiosach Fergus Fithchiollach
And the chief men among them were two sons of Bodb Dearg, Aodh Aithfhiosach, of the quick wits, and Fergus Fithchiollach, of the chess, and a third part of the Riders of the Sidhe along with them, and it was for the swans they had been looking for a long while before that, and when they came together they wished one another a kind and loving welcome.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 4 · 📍 [[Sruth na Maoile]] · after our three hundred years here
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir)
So they set out in that way, and left Sruth na Maoile behind them, and went to the point of Irrus Domnann, and there they stopped, and it is a life of misery and a cold life they led there.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 4 · 📍 [[Irrus Domnann]] · till the time they had to spend there was spent
Fionnuala Fiachra (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Aodh (son of Lir)
And then Fionnuala said: "The time is come for us to go back to Sidhe Fionnachaidh, where our father is with his household and with all our own people."
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · 📍 [[Sidhe Fionnachaidh]] · that night
Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
However, the children of Lir stopped that night in their father's place and their grandfather's, where they had been reared, and they were singing very sweet music of the Sidhe.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · 📍 [[Inis Gluaire]] · every night
Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
And they rose up early on the morning of the morrow and went to Inis Gluaire, and all the birds of the country gathered near them on Loch na-n Ean, the Lake of the Birds.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · about that time
Aibric Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
It was about that time it happened them to meet with a young man of good race, and his name was Aibric; and he often took notice of the birds, and their singing was sweet to him and he loved them greatly, and they loved him.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · 📍 [[Inis Gluaire]] · after the faith of Christ and blessed Patrick came into Ireland
Mochaomhog Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
It was after the faith of Christ and blessed Patrick came into Ireland, that Saint Mochaomhog came to Inis Gluaire.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · 📍 [[Inis Gluaire]] · on the morning of the morrow
Mochaomhog Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
“I give thanks to God for that,” said he, “for it is for your sakes I am come to this island beyond any other island, and let you come to land now,” he said, “and give your trust to me, that you may do good deeds and part from your sins.”
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · 📍 [[Inis Gluaire]] · after that
Mochaomhog Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
They came to the land after that, and they put trust in Mochaomhog, and he brought them to his own dwelling-place, and they used to be hearing Mass with him.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5
Mochaomhog Aodh (son of Lir) Fionnuala Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
And he got a good smith and bade him make chains of bright silver for them, and he put a chain between Aodh and Fionnuala, and a chain between Conn and Fiachra.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · then
There was great anger on Lairgnen then, and he went himself to the place Mochaomhog was, and he asked was it true he had refused him the birds. “It is true indeed,” said he.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · no sooner had he laid his hand on them
Lairgnen Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir)
But no sooner had he laid his hand on them than their bird skins fell off, and what was in their place was three lean, withered old men and a thin withered old woman, without blood or flesh.
The Gods · The Fate of the Children of Lir · Part 5 · then
Fionnuala Aodh (son of Lir) Conn (son of Lir) Fiachra (son of Lir) Mochaomhog
The children of Lir were baptized then, and they died and were buried as Fionnuala had desired; Fiachra and Conn one at each side of her, and Aodh before her face.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · At the time Finn was born
Head of the Fianna of Ireland, had been killed in battle by the sons of Morna that were fighting with him for the leadership.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · 📍 [[the woods of Slieve Bladhma]]
It was to the woods of Slieve Bladhma they brought him, and they nursed him secretly, because of his father's enemies, the sons of Morna, and they kept him there a long time.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1
And Muirne, his mother, took another husband that was king of Carraighe;
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · 📍 [[the wood]] · at the end of six years
And Muirne, his mother, took another husband that was king of Carraighe; but at the end of six years she came to see Finn, going through every lonely place till she came to the wood, and there she found the little hunting cabin, and the boy asleep in it, and she lifted him up in her arms and kissed him, and she sang a little sleepy song to him; and then she said farewell to the women, and she went away again.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · 📍 [[Fidh Gaible]]
But after a while he went away with a troop of poets, to hide from the sons of Morna, and they hid him in the mountain of Crotta Cliach; but there was a robber in Leinster at that time, Fiacuil, son of Codhna, and he came where the poets were in Fidh Gaible and killed them all. But he spared the child and brought him to his own house, that was in a cold marsh.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · after a while
Bodhmall Liath Luachra Fiacuil Finn
But the two women, Bodhmall and Liath, came looking for him after a while, and Fiacuil gave him up to them, and they brought him back to the same place he was before.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · at last
But at last they said to him: "It is best for you to leave us now, for the sons of Morna are watching again to kill you."
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · 📍 [[Magh Lifé]]
So he went away then by himself, and never stopped till he came to Magh Lifé, and there he saw young lads swimming in a lake, and they called to him to swim against them. So he went into the lake, and he beat them at swimming. "Fair he is and well shaped," they said when they saw him swimming, and it was from that time he got the name of Finn, that is, Fair.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · 📍 [[Loch Lein]]
He went on then till he came to Loch Lein, and he took service there with the King of Finntraigh;
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1 · 📍 [[Carraighe]] · one day
And one day they were playing chess together, and he won seven games one after another. "Who are you at all?" said the king then. "I am a son of a countryman of the Luigne of Teamhair," said Finn. "That is not so," said the king, "but you are the son that Muirne my wife bore to Cumhal. And do not stop here any longer," he said, "that you may not be killed under my protection.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1
And Finn followed after the big champion and fought with him and killed him. And the man he killed was the same man that had given Cumhal his first wound in the battle where he got his death, and had brought away his treasure-bag with him.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 1
And Finn took the bag and brought it with him till he found Crimall, that was now an old man, living in a lonely place, and some of the old men of the Fianna were with him, and used to go hunting for him. And Finn gave him the bag, and told him his whole story.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 2 · one day
And one day Finn chanced to be hunting in the rushes near the well, and the three women ran out to hinder him from coming to it, and one of them that had a vessel of the water in her hand, threw it at him to stop him, and a share of the water went into his mouth. And from that out he had all the knowledge that the water of that well could give.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · at Samhain time
“I am Finn, son of Cumhal,” he said, “son of the man that used to be head over the Fianna, and king of Ireland; and I am come now to get your friendship, and to give you my service.”
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
Then Finn rose up and made his agreement of service and of faithfulness to the king; and the king took him by the hand and put him sitting beside his own son, and they gave themselves to drinking and to pleasure for a while.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 2 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · Every year, now, at Samhain time, for nine years
Every year, now, at Samhain time, for nine years, there had come a man of the Tuatha de Danaan out of Sidhe Finnachaidh in the north, and had burned up Teamhair.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 3
Then Fiacha brought him the spear, unknown to the sons of Morna or to any other person, and he said: "When you will hear the music of the Sidhe, let you strip the covering off the head of the spear and put it to your forehead, and the power of the spear will not let sleep come upon you."
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 3 · 📍 [[Sidhe Finnachaidh]]
And Aillen went on playing his little harp, till he had put every one in their sleep as he was used; and then he let a flame of fire out from his mouth to burn Teamhair. And Finn held up his fringed crimson cloak against the flame, and it fell down through the air and went into the ground, bringing the four-folded cloak with it deep into the earth.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 3 · at the breaking of day
And at the breaking of day, the king and all the men of Ireland came out upon the lawn at Teamhair where Finn was. "King," said Finn, "there is the head of the man that burned Teamhair, and the pipe and the harp that made his music. And it is what I think," he said, "that Teamhair and all that is in it is saved."
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 3
Then they all came together into the place of counsel, and it is what they agreed, the headship of the Fianna of Ireland to be given to Finn.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Coming of Finn · Part 3
And when the charms that used to bring good luck had done their work, the chief men of the Fianna rose up and struck their hands in Finn's hand, and Goll, son of Morna, was the first to give him his hand the way there would be less shame on the rest for doing it.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Finn's Household · 📍 [[Slieve-nam-ban]]
"I am come," he said, "out of the place of the Sidhe in Slieve-nam-ban, where ale is drunk and made; and it is to be in your company for a while I am come here." "You will get good rewards from me, and riches and red gold," said Finn, "and my full friendship, for I like you well." "That is the best luck ever came to you, Finn," said all the rest of the Fianna, for they were well pleased to have him in their company.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Birth of Bran · 📍 [[Almhuin]] · one time
And Iollan Eachtach, a chief man of the Fianna of Ulster, was at Almhuin at the time, and he gave his love to Tuiren, and asked her in marriage, and brought her to his own house.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Birth of Bran
So Tuiren went out with her, and when they were away from the house the woman of the Sidhe took out her dark Druid rod from under her cloak and gave her a blow of it that changed her into a hound, the most beautiful that was ever seen.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Birth of Bran · when her time came near
Tuiren Bran (Finn's hound) Sceolan
And when her time came near, they did not let her go hunting any more, and she gave birth to two whelps.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Birth of Bran
“If that is so,” said she, “and if you will give me your pledge to keep me as your sweetheart to the end of your life, I will free you from that danger.” So Iollan gave her his promise, and she went to the house of Fergus Fionnliath, and she brought Tuiren away and put her own shape on her again, and gave her up to Finn.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Birth of Bran
And Finn gave her to Lugaidh Lamha that asked her in marriage.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother · through the length of three years
And it is for refusing the love of Fear Doirche, the Dark Druid of the Men of Dea," she said, "I was put in this shape.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother · through the length of seven years from that time
And through the length of seven years from that time, whenever he was not out fighting against the enemies of Ireland, he went searching and ever searching in every far corner for beautiful Sadbh.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother · 📍 [[Beinn Gulbain]] · after the end of seven years
And when they followed them there, they saw the five hounds of Finn in a ring, and they keeping back the other hounds, and in the middle of the ring was a young boy, with high looks, and he naked and having long hair.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 1 · 📍 [[Slieve Baune]]
And the chessboard he had was called the Solustairtech, the Shining Thing, and some of the chessmen were made of gold, and some of them of silver, and each one of them was as big as the fist of the biggest man of the Fianna; and after the death of Goll it was buried in Slieve Baune.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · one time
And when Caoilte heard Finn had been brought away to Teamhair, he went out to avenge him. And the first he killed was Cuireach, a king of Leinster that had a great name, and he brought his head up to the hill that is above Buadhmaic.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · when he came to Teamhair
And when he came to Teamhair, he came to the palace, and took the clothes off the door-keeper, and he left his own sword that was worn thin in the king's sheath, and took the king's sword that had great power in it. And he went into the palace then in the disguise of a servant, to see how he could best free Finn.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · After that
After that Caoilte was serving the King of Ireland with drink, and when he was standing beside him he gave out a high sorrowful lament. "There is the smell of Caoilte's skin on that lament," said the king. And when Caoilte saw he knew him he spoke out and he said: "Tell me what way I can get freedom for my master." "There is no way to get freedom for him but by doing one thing," said the king, "and that is a thing you can never do. If you can bring me together a couple of all the wild creatures of Ireland," he said, "I will give up your master to you then."
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 2 · one time
And Caoilte gave them Druid herbs, and they put them in the water of a bath and washed in it, and the love of their husbands came back to them, and they sent away the new wives they had taken.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 2 · till his twelfth year
he was reared up by Duban's daughter, that had reared eight hundred fighting men of the Fianna, till his twelfth year
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 2 · 📍 [[Chorraig Conluain and the mountains of Slieve Bladhma]] · then
And Finn gave him a very gentle welcome, and he struck his hand in Finn's hand, and made his agreement of service with him.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Point of the Fianna on the edge of Loch Lein]] · at last
Then Lugaidh's Son came to Finn, and Finn asked him, "What is it has put the whole of the Fianna against you?"
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3
Then Finn gave him an advice, and it is what he said: "If you have a mind to be a good champion, be quiet in a great man's house; be surly in the narrow pass.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · after a while
And as to Lugaidh's Son, that advice stayed always with him, and he changed his ways, and after a while he got a great name among the poets of Ireland and of Alban, and whenever they would praise Finn in their poems, they would praise him as well.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3
Aoife (daughter of the King of Lochlann) Mal Aiel
And Aoife, daughter of the King of Lochlann, that was married to Mal, son of Aiel, King of Alban, heard the great praise the poets were giving to Lugaidh's Son, and she set her love on him for the sake of those stories.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · 📍 [[Beinn Edair]] · when he was gone
Aoife (daughter of the King of Lochlann)
And when he was gone Aoife made a plan in her sunny house where she was, to go over to Ireland, herself and her nine foster-sisters. And they set out and went over the manes of the sea till they came to Beinn Edair, and there they landed.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · that day
Aoife (daughter of the King of Lochlann) Finn
And Finn asked news of her, and she told him the whole story, and how she had given her love to Lugaidh's Son, and was come over the sea looking for him; and Finn made her welcome.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3
Finn Aoife (daughter of the King of Lochlann) Lugaidh's Son
"And it is to you she is come," he said; "and here she is to you out of my hand, and all the war and the battles she brings with her; but it will not fall heavier on you," he said, "than on the rest of the Fianna."
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · a month and a year
Lugaidh's Son Aoife (daughter of the King of Lochlann)
And she was with Lugaidh's Son a month and a year without being asked for.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · 📍 [[the Hill of the Poet in Leinster]] · one day
But one day the three battalions of the Fianna were on the Hill of the Poet in Leinster, and they saw three armed battalions equal to themselves coming, against them, and they asked who was bringing them. "It is Mal, son of Aiel, is bringing them," said Finn, "to avenge his wife on the Fianna.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · 📍 [[the Hill of the Poet in Leinster]] · at the last
And in the middle of the battle he and Lugaidh's Son met, and they fought against one another with spear and sword. And whether the fight was short or long, it was Mal fell by Lugaidh's Son at the last.
The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · The Best Men of the Fianna · Part 3 · from that out
Aoife (daughter of the King of Lochlann) Lugaidh's Son
And from that out she belonged to Lugaidh's Son, and was a mother of children to him.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1 · 📍 [[Almhuin]] · One time
One time a young man wearing a dress of skins came to Finn's house at Almhuin, and his wife along with him, and he asked to take service with Finn.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1
Lad of the Skins King of the Floods
So his people did that, and no sooner did the Lad of the Skins get a hold of the cauldron than he made away to the ship and put it safe into it. But when he had done that he said: "There is no use in taking the pot by my swiftness, if I do not take it by my strength." And with that he turned and went to land again. And the whole of the men of the army of the King of the Floods were ready to fight; but if they were, so was the Lad of the Skins, and he went through them and over them all till the whole place was quiet.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1 · 📍 [[Almhuin]]
And he took up the cauldron on his back, and brought it to Finn, son of Cumhal, at Almhuin. And Finn gave him his thanks for the work he had done.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1 · One day
One day, now, Finn was washing himself at the well, and a voice spoke out of the water, and it said: "You must give back the cauldron, Finn, to the King of the Floods, or you must give him battle in place of it."
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · through the night
But if you want me to go with you," he said, "let you watch my wife, that is Manannan's daughter, through the night;
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · in the middle of the night
"I have no power to refuse you," she said; "but you must promise me one thing, to bring my husband back to me, alive or dead.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · 📍 [[the dun of the King of the Floods]]
But the Lad of the Skins made for them and overthrew them, and he went into the king's dun, and Finn with him, and they overcame him and brought away again the cauldron that was never empty.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · at the last
And then they began to fight in the shape of birds, and it is in that shape they killed one another at the last.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · when he came in sight of Ireland
And when he came in sight of Ireland, he raised a red flag as he had promised the woman.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · 📍 [[an island]]
And on that moment he stood up as well and as sound as ever he was.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · 📍 [[Almhuin]] · at midnight
So Finn rose up and saw him, and gave him a great welcome, and paid him his wages.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 2 · after that
And after that he went away and his wife with him to wherever his own country was;
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · a hundred years ago
The knife and the bone were sent round then from man to man till they came to Dun, and as soon as he had the knife in his hand he slipped out unknown and hurried back, and he had just got to the well where Finn was, when his part of the log burned out.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey
He rose up then and looked at her, and wondered at the bulk of her body. And at last he drew his sword and hit her a slash that killed her; but if he did, three young men leaped out of her body. And Glasan made a stroke that killed the first of them, and Bran killed the second, but the third made his escape.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 [[Inis Caol]] · for the next twenty-one years
"I am looking for a master for the next twenty-one years," he said. "What wages are you asking?" said Finn. "No wages at all, but only if I die before the twenty-one years are up, to bury me on Inis Caol, the Narrow Island." "I will do that for you," said Finn.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · in the twenty-first year
So the Red-Haired Man served Finn well through the length of twenty years. But in the twenty-first year he began to waste and to wither away, and he died.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 [[Inis Caol]] · when he was dead
But Finn said he would break his word for no man, and that he himself would bring his body there.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 [[Inis Caol]] · when they came to Inis Caol
But when they tried to rise up it failed them to do it, for there was enchantment on them. And they saw the Red-Haired Man standing before them in that moment.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 [[Inis Caol]]
"The time is come now," he said, "for me to get satisfaction from you for the death of my mother and my two brothers that were killed by Glasan in the house of the dead bodies."
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 [[Inis Caol]]
Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, that had heard the sound of the Dord Fiann, came into the house and made an end of him, and put an end to the enchantment.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · 📍 [[Magh Femen]] · One day
So Finn promised that; but if he did there were some of the Fianna were not well pleased because of the ways of those three men, living as they did by themselves, and having a wall of fire about them, and they would have made an end of them but for Finn protecting them.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · About that time
And the three young men went to the place where the hound had his bed a little way off from the rath, and the hound threw out of his mouth before them the three times fifty ounces of gold and three times fifty of silver, and they gave them to the men of poetry, and they went away.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · 📍 [[the Little Rath of Wonders]] · Another time
He filled the horns then with beer and they drank it, and he did that a second and a third time; and with the third time of filling they were talkative and their wits confused. "This is a wonderful mending of the feast," said Finn. And they gave the place where all that happened the name of the Little Rath of Wonders.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · one time after that again
"And let Caoilte son of Ronan give us the blood-fine for him now," they said. "What are your names?" said Finn. "Aincel and Digbail and Espaid; Ill-wishing and Harm and Want are our names. And what answer do you give us now, Finn?" they said. "No one before me ever gave a blood-fine for a man killed in battle, and I will not give it," said Finn.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · 📍 [[Slieve Mis]] · through a month and a quarter and a year
So the Fianna made little raths for themselves all about Slieve Mis, and they stopped there through a month and a quarter and a year. And through all that time the three red bald-headed men were doing every sort of hurt and harm upon them.
The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 2
With that the hound sent a blast of wind under them that brought them out into the fierce green sea, and each of them struck a blow on the head of the others. And that was the last that was seen of the three destroying sons of Uar, Aincel and Digbail and Espaid.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Enemies of Ireland · 📍 [[Ireland]] · One time
[[Tor]] [[Breogan]]
One time the enemies of Ireland gathered together under Daire Donn, High King of the Great World, thinking to take Ireland and to put it under tribute. The King of Greece was of them, and the King of France, and the King of the Eastern World, and Lughman of the Broad Arms, King of the Saxons, and Fiacha of the Long Hair, King of the Gairean, and Tor the son of Breogan, King of the Great Plain, and Sligech, son of the King of the Men of Cepda, and Comur of the Crooked Sword, King of the Men of the Dog-Heads, and Caitchenn, King of the Men of the Cat-Heads, and Caisel of the Feathers, King of Lochlann, and Madan of the Bent Neck, son of the King of the Marshes, and three kings from the rising of the sun in the east, and Ogarmach, daughter of the King of Greece, the best woman-warrior that ever came into the world, and a great many other kings and great lords.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Enemies of Ireland · 📍 [[Ireland]]
The King of the World asked then: "Who is there can give me knowledge of the harbours of Ireland?" "I will do that for you, and I will bring you to a good harbour," said Glas, son of Bremen, that had been put out of Ireland by Finn for doing some treachery.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Cael and Credhe · 📍 [[Fionntulach]]
Now as to Finn, when it was shown to him that the enemies of Ireland were coming, he called together the seven battalions of the Fianna.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Conn Crither · 📍 [[Traigh Moduirn]]
And it was at that time the armies of the King of the Great Plain were taking spoils from Traigh Moduirn in the north to Finntraighe in the south. And Conn Crither came on them, and the Druid army with him, and he took their spoils from them, and the Druid army took their sight and their strength from them, and they were routed, and they made away to where the King of the Great Plain was, and Conn Crither followed, killing and destroying.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Conn Crither · a good part of the day
So the two set their banners in the earth and attacked one another, and fought a good part of the day until Conn Crither struck off the king's head.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Glas, Son of Bremen · 📍 [[Teamhair Luachra]]
"If that is so," said Glas, "you are of the one blood with myself, for I am Glas, son of Bremen from Teamhair Luachra."
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Glas, Son of Bremen · that day
So two of the strangers were sent against them that day, and they got their death by Glas and by Conn Crither.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Glas, Son of Bremen · 📍 [[the well of healing]] · to-night
So he went to them, and they bathed him in the well of healing, and he was whole of his wounds.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Glas, Son of Bremen · to-night
And I ask you to let him come alone against me to-night, till we see which of us will fight best for Ireland.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Glas, Son of Bremen · not long after that
So Madan came to the land, and the two attacked one another, and made a very hard fight; but as it was not in the prophecy that Glas would find his death there, it was the son of the King of the Marshes that got his death by him.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea · 📍 [[the White Strand]]
But Taistellach struck his head off in the sea and brought it back to land.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea · 📍 [[Teamhair Luachra]] · to-night
Taistellach Bran (son of Febal)
"And go now to-night," he said, "to the house of Bran, son of Febal my father at Teamhair Luachra, and bid him to gather all the Tuatha de Danaan to help us; and go on to-morrow to the Fianna of Ireland."
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea · 📍 [[Dun Sesnain in Ui Conall Gabra]] · at that time
Bran (son of Febal) Tuatha de Danaan
Then Bran, son of Febal, went out to gather the Tuatha de Danaan, and he went to Dun Sesnain in Ui Conall Gabra, where they were holding a feast at that time.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea · 📍 [[Sidhe Bean Finn above Magh Femen]]
Bodb Dearg Dolb Tuatha de Danaan
"I give my word," said Bodb Dearg, "it is right to give a good answer to so good a messenger." With that he sent word to the Tuatha de Danaan in every place where they were, and they gathered to him.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea · 📍 [[the harbour of the White Strand]]
Tuatha de Danaan Comur Cromchenn Caitchenn
And the whole army of them came into Ciarraighe Luachra, and to red-haired Slieve Mis, and from that to the harbour of the White Strand.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea
With that he took his sword in his left hand and made a thrust with his spear in through the king's armour. And as the king was raising up his shield, he struck at him with the sword that was in his left hand, and cut off both his legs at the knees, and the king let fall his shield then, and Abarthach struck off his head.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Help of the Men of Dea
Tuatha de Danaan
And the two kings being dead, their people broke away and ran, but the Men of Dea followed them and made an end of them all; but if they did, they lost a good many of their own men.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The March of the Fianna
Finn Credhe Caoilte Oisin Lugaidh's Son Conn Crither Glas
And the Fianna all said they would not go back one step from the defence of Ireland.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The March of the Fianna · the whole length of the battle, that lasted a year and a day
Credhe Finn Caoilte Oisin Lugaidh's Son Conn Crither Glas
And as to Credhe, she gave every one of them a battle dress, and they were taking leave of her, and Finn said: "Let the woman come along with us till we know is it good or bad the end of this journey will be." So she came with them, bringing a great herd of cattle; and through the whole length of the battle, that lasted a year and a day, she had new milk for them, and it was to her house the wounded were brought for healing.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The March of the Fianna
Caoilte Oisin Lugaidh's Son Conn Crither Glas
And with that he himself and Oisin and Lugaidh's Son made an attack on the strangers, and struck great blows at them. And when Conn Crither and Glas, son of Bremen, heard the noise of those blows, they knew they were struck by some of the Fianna of Ireland, and they came and joined with them, and did great destruction on the strangers, till there was not one left of all that had come to land.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 1
"It is sorrowful I am for that," said Finn, "for whichever of the kings of the world will meet you to-day, yourself and himself will fall together."
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 1
Cuban's son King of Greece (at the White Strand)
And those two fell together, sole to sole, and lip to lip.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 1
"And let Follamain, his son, be called to me now," he said, "and I will give him his father's name and place."
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 1 · on the morning of the morrow
So he did that; and it is what they agreed to take their three kings and to give them over to Goll Garb that he might stop doing destruction with his sword.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 1 · 📍 [[Gleann na-n Gealt]]
But for all that he was worsted in the end, and great fear came on him, like the fear of a hundred horses at the sound of thunder, and he ran from Oisin, and he rose like a swallow, that his feet never touched the earth at all; and he never stopped till he came to Gleann na-n Gealt, the Valley of Wild Men.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 2 · till the early light of the morrow
Then Oisin's courage increased, and anger came on him and he linked his hands behind the back of the foreigner and put him down on the sand under the sea with his face upwards, and did not let him rise till the life was gone from him.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 2
[[Dolar Durba]]
But there was great grief and anger on Dolar Durba, the eldest of the sons of Garb, that had stopped in the ship, and he made a great oath that he would have satisfaction for his brothers.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The First Fighters · Part 2 · The next morning
[[Dolar Durba]] Dubhan
And Dubhan's men gave a great shout of laughter when they heard that; but Dolar Durba rushed on them, and he made an end of the whole hundred, without a man of them being able to put a scratch on him.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Ulster's Son
I give you a welcome," said Finn.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The High King's Son · that day's
And Finn said he would agree to that if he could find enough of men to go with him. And he himself gave him a hundred men, and Oisin did the same, and so on with the rest.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The High King's Son
And he was urging him and blaming him, and great shame came on the young man, and he threw away the stick and went through the people of Teamhair and brought together all the young men, a thousand and twenty of them that were in it. And they asked no leave and no advice from the High King, but they set out and went on till they came to Finntraigh. And Fergus went to where Finn was, and told him the son of the High King of Ireland was come with him; and all the Fianna rose up before the young man and bade him welcome.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 1
Oisin Forne of the Broad Shoulders
And great courage rose in Oisin then, and he drove his spear through the body of Forne, the King of Lochlann's son.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2
Then the armies of the World gave out a great cry, keening Forne; and there was anger and not fear on his brothers, for they thought it no right thing he to have fallen by a man of the Fianna.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2
And at the last Lugaidh's Son made a stroke of his sword that cut through the foreigner's sword, and then he made another stroke that cut his heart in two halves.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2
But he made a quick leap to one side and gave him a blow of his sword that cut off his two hands at the joint; and he did not stop at that, but made a blow at his middle that cut him into two halves.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2
But as he fell, an apple of the flail with its deadly thorns went into Fidach's comely mouth and through his brain, and it was foot to foot those two fell, and lip to lip.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2
Caisel Clumach of the Feathers Druimderg
Then Druimderg made a cast with the Croderg that hit him in the open mouth, and he fell, and his shield fell along with its master, and its flame went out. And Druimderg struck the head from his body, and made great boasts of the things he had done.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Labran's Journey
But after they had talked for a while, they went out on the lawn, and they sent Labran looking for the weapons in the shape of a great eagle.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Labran's Journey
And they were brought out and were given to Labran, and stalks of luck were put with them, and they were bound together with shield straps.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Labran's Journey · just at that time
"You are come at a good time," said Tadg. And with that he gave him the sword and the shield to bring to Finn for the battle.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Labran's Journey · 📍 [[White Strand]] · at the rising of the day on the morrow
"I have here for you, King of the Fianna," said Aedh then, "the deadly weapons that will bring him to his death; and it was Labran of the Long Hand got them for you through his Druid arts." He put them in Finn's hand then, and Finn took the coverings off them, and there rose from them flashes of fire and deadly bubbles;
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 1 · 📍 [[the strand]] · Then
It was then Conan, son of Morna, brought to mind that himself and his kindred had done great harm to the sons of Baiscne, and he had a wish to do some good thing for them on account of that, and he raised up his sword and did great deeds.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 1 · Nine times
With that he went rushing through the battle like flames over a high hill that is thick with furze. Nine times he made a round of the battle, and he killed nine times nine in every round.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 1 · then
Caoilte's mind changed when he heard that, and he turned again to the army of the foreigners with the redness of anger on his white face; and eighty fighting men fell in that rout.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 1
Cairell the Battle Striker Aelchinn of Cruachan Daire Donn
But two of the men of your Fianna fell on them," he said, "Cairell the Battle Striker, and Aelchinn of Cruachan, and made an end of them. But they were not able to wound the King of the World," he said, "but the two of them fell together by him."
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
Arcallach of the Black Axe Finn King of the World
And the King of the World struck back at Arcallach, and made two halves of him.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
Finn King of the World
And Finn gave great strokes that broke his shield and his sword, and that cut off his left foot, and at the last he struck off his head.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
Finnachta of the Teeth Conmail
Then Finnachta of the Teeth, the first man of the household of the King of the World, took hold of the royal crown of the king, and brought it where Conmail his son was, and put it on his head.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
But the King of Albain's son gave him a blow under the shelter of the shield, in his left side, that made an end of him.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
Finnachta of the Teeth Ogarmach
Finnachta of the Teeth saw that, and he made another rush at the royal crown, and brought it to where Ogarmach was, the daughter of the King of Greece. "Put on that crown, Ogarmach," he said, "as it is in the prophecy the world will be owned by a woman; and it will never be owned by any woman higher than yourself," he said.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
And then he fell himself in his bed of blood, and was the same as dead, but that he rose again.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The Great Fight · Part 2
Then their hands shut across one another's bodies, and they went down to the sand and the gravel of the clear sea.
The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · Credhe's Lament · at that time
“I have news,” said Fergus, “for he and the last man that was left of the foreigners, Finnachta Fiaclach, are after drowning one another in the sea.”
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The King of Britain's Son · 📍 [[Beinn Edair]] · one day
And while Arthur was there he took notice of three of Finn's hounds, Bran, and Sceolan and Adhnuall, and he made a plan in his mind to go away across the sea, himself and his three nines, bringing those three hounds along with him. So he did that, and he himself and his men brought away the hounds and crossed the sea, and the place where they landed was Inver Mara Gamiach on the coast of Britain. And after they landed, they went to the mountain of Lodan, son of Lir, to hunt on it.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The King of Britain's Son · 📍 [[the mountain of Lodan, son of Lir]]
Diarmuid Oisin Ferdoman Raighne Wide Eye Cainche the Crimson-Red Glas (son of Enchered Bera) Arthur
Arthur of Britain and his people were sitting on a hunting mound just at that time, and the nine men of the Fianna made an attack on them and killed all of them but Arthur, that Goll, son of Morna, put his two arms about and saved from death. Then they turned to go back to Ireland, bringing Arthur with them, and the three hounds.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The King of Britain's Son
And as to the horse and the mare, they gave them to Finn; and the mare bred eight times, at every birth eight foals, and it is of that seed came all the horses of the fair Fianna of the Gael, for they had used no horses up to that time.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The King of Britain's Son · 📍 [[Duma na Conn]] · one time
And one time, three times fifty of Finn's hounds passed by the hill where she was; and she breathed on the hounds and shut them up in the hill, and they never came out again. It was to spite Finn she did that, and the place got the name of Duma na Conn, the Mound of the Hounds.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The King of Britain's Son · afterwards
Adhnuall
And when Adhnuall came to that hill, he gave three loud howls and he stretched himself out and died.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Ceiscoran · 📍 [[Ceiscoran]] · at that time
And Conaran, son of Imidd, of the Tuatha de Danaan, had the sway in Ceiscoran at that time, and when he heard the shouting and the cry of the hounds all around, he bade his three daughters that had a great share of enchantments, to do vengeance on Finn for his hunting.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Ceiscoran · 📍 [[Ceiscoran]]
Finn and Conan passed through the hanks of yarn to get a better look at the hags. And no sooner had they done that, than a deadly trembling came on them and a weakness, and the bold hags took hold of them and put them in tight bonds.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Ceiscoran · 📍 [[Ceiscoran]]
And when the three hags saw him they went to meet him, and they fought a hard battle with him. And great anger came on Goll, and he made great strokes at the witches, and at the last he raised up his sword, and with one blow he cut the two that were nearest him through and through.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Ceiscoran · 📍 [[Ceiscoran]]
He tied her fast then with the straps of a shield, and took his sword to make an end of her. But the hag said: "O champion that was never worsted, strong man that never went back in battle, I put my body and my life under the protection of your bravery. And it is better for you," she said, "to get Finn and the Fianna safe and whole than to have my blood; and I swear by the gods my people swear by," she said, "I will give them back to you again."
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Ceiscoran · 📍 [[Ceiscoran]]
Goll Finn Oisin Fergus of the True Lips
With that Goll set her free, and they went together into the hill where the Fianna were lying. And Goll said: "Loose off the fastenings first from Fergus of the True Lips and from the other learned men of the Fianna; and after that from Finn, and Oisin, and the twenty-nine sons of Morna, and from all the rest."
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 1 · at one time
Bodb Dearg Donn (son of Midhir)
and he began to ask hostages of myself and of my brothers; but we said that till all the rest of the Men of Dea had given them, we would not give them.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 1
So the eight-and-twenty brothers of us came out to look for a place for ourselves; and we searched all Ireland till we found this secret hidden place, and we are here ever since.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 1 · 📍 [[the green outside]]
Donn (son of Midhir) Diangalach
It is the grave of Diangalach, a man of enchantments of the Men of Dea; and that is the greatest loss came on them yet,” said Donn; “and it was I myself killed him,” he said.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 1 · at the one time
All the Tuatha de Danaan had of jewels and riches and treasures, horns and vessels and cups of pale gold, we took from them at the one time.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 1 · 📍 [[Toraig]]
And we sent that bare-headed girl beyond to Toraig in the North in the shape of a foolish fawn, and you followed her here.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 2 · from the covering time of evening to the edge of the morning
Donn (son of Midhir) Aedh, son of Midhir Flann, son of Midhir
Then from the covering time of evening to the edge of the morning they fought the battle. And the loss of the Tuatha de Danaan was no less a number than ten hundred ten score and ten men.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 2 · through the whole length of a year
And they stopped in the hill with the sons of Midhir through the whole length of a year, and three times in the year the Men of Dea made an attack on the hill, and a battle was fought.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 2 · in one of the battles
And Conn, son of Midhir, was killed in one of the battles;
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Donn Son of Midhir · Part 3 · within nine days
Finn Donn (son of Midhir) Luibra Caoilte
And within nine days the physician had done a cure on them, and they were as well and as sound as before.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hospitality of Cuanna's House · 📍 [[Cairn Feargall]] · one day
And they were not long there till they saw a giant coming towards them, very tall and rough and having an iron fork on his back and a squealing pig between the prongs of the fork.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hospitality of Cuanna's House
Caoilte went out then, and he brought the full of the copper vessel to Finn, and Finn took a drink from it, and there was the taste of honey on it while he was drinking, and the taste of gall on it after, so that fierce windy pains and signs of death came on him, and his appearance changed, that he would hardly be known.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hospitality of Cuanna's House
So Caoilte did that, and brought in the full of the iron vessel. And Finn never went through such great hardship in any battle as he did drinking that draught, from the bitterness of it; but no sooner did he drink it than his own colour and appearance came back to him and he was as well as before, and his people were very glad when they saw that.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hospitality of Cuanna's House
With that he took hold of the quarter that was before the Fianna, and brought it into a corner and began to eat it. On that the four of them attacked him with their swords, but with all the hard strokes they gave they could not harm him at all, for the swords slipped from his back the same as they would from a rock.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hospitality of Cuanna's House
Finn Oisin Caoilte Diarmuid Lugaidh's Son
It was not long after that, the hag rose up and threw her pale grey gown over Finn's four comrades, and they turned to four old men, weak and withered, their heads hanging.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hospitality of Cuanna's House · 📍 [[Cairn Feargall]] · in the morning
Finn Oisin Caoilte Diarmuid Lugaidh's Son Cuanna from Innistuil
So they did that, and when they awoke in the morning, it is where they were, on the top of Cairn Feargall, and their dogs and their arms beside them.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Cat-heads and Dog-heads · one time
And wherever it was they found the smithy, they went into it, and there they found four smiths working, and every one of them having seven hands. And Finn and Caoilte and the rest stopped there watching them till the swords were made, and they brought them away with them then, and it is good use they made of them afterwards.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Cat-heads and Dog-heads · 📍 [[Magh Tuireadh]] · At the time of the battle of the Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh
At the time of the battle of the Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh, Lugh, after he had struck the head off Balor of the Evil Eye, hung it in the fork of a hazel-tree.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Cat-heads and Dog-heads · At the end of that time
And at the end of that time Manannan, son of Lir, was passing by, and he took notice of the tree that it was split and withered, and he bade his men to dig it up.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Cat-heads and Dog-heads
And when they began to dig, a mist of poison rose up from the roots, and nine of the men got their death from it, and another nine after them, and the third nine were blinded.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Lomna's Head · 📍 [[Luigne of Midhe]] · one time
FINN took a wife one time of the Luigne of Midhe. And at the same time there was in his household one Lomna, a fool.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Lomna's Head · after a while
Finn now went into Tethra, hunting with the Fianna, but Lomna stopped at the house. And after a while he saw Coirpre, a man of the Luigne, go in secretly to where Finn's wife was.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Lomna's Head · after a while
And after a while he took a four-square rod and wrote an Ogham on it, and these were the words he wrote:--"An alder stake in a paling of silver; deadly night-shade in a bunch of cresses; a husband of a lewd woman; a fool among the well-taught Fianna; heather on bare Ualann of Luigne."
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Lomna's Head
Finn saw the message, and there was anger on him against the woman; and she knew well it was from Lomna he had heard the story, and she sent a message to Coirpre bidding him to come and kill the fool.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ess Ruadh]] · The night Caoilte came in
Then Caoilte put his hand within the rim of his shield, and he took out of it a copper rod he had, and he made a cast of it at the bird, that brought it down on the floor of the hall.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 1
Ilbrec Caoilte Fiacha Congha Finn Aillen Midhna
Then Ilbrec took down a sharp spear, having thirty rivets of gold in it, from its place, and he said: "That is the Spear of Fiacha, son of Congha, and it is with that Finn made an end of Aillen, son of Midhna, that used to burn Teamhair. And keep it beside you now, Caoilte," he said, "till we see will Lir come to avenge his bird on us."
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ess Ruadh]] · Then
"Will you take it in hand, Derg?" said the people of the hill. "I will take it," said Derg, "with its loss and its gain."
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 2
Derg Dubh (son of Eirrge) Donn (son of Eirrge)
But Derg saw that, and he put his finger into the thong of his spear and made a cast at the one that was nearest him, and it broke his back and went on into the body of the other, so that the one cast made an end of the two.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ess Ruadh]]
And there was great rejoicing in the hill at Ess Ruadh, and Ilbrec took the spoils of the beaten army for his people, and to Caoilte he gave the enchanted spear of Fiacha, together with nine rich cloaks and nine long swords with hilts and guards of gold, and nine hounds for hunting.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[Beinn Edair]] · A long time after that
It was in a battle at Beinn Edair in the east that Mane, son of the King of Lochlann, made a cast at him in the middle of the battle with a deadly spear. And he heard the whistling of the spear, and it rushing to him; and he lifted his shield to protect his head and his body, but that did not save him, for it struck into his thigh, and left its poison in it, so that he had to go in search of healing.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ess Ruadh]]
And it is where he went, to the hill of the Sidhe at Ess Ruadh, to ask help of Bebind, daughter of Elcmar of Brugh na Boinne, that had the drink of healing of the Tuatha de Danaan, and all that was left of the ale of Goibniu that she used to be giving out to them.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 2 · at that time
And as to Caoilte, he went out in a chariot belonging to Midhir of the Yellow Hair, son of the Dagda, and a spear was given him that was called Ben-badb, the War-Woman, and he made a cast of the spear that struck the King of Lochlann, that he fell in the middle of his army, and the life went from him.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 3
Then Cascorach, son of Caincenn, took a man of the chessmen and made a cast at one of the ravens that struck his beak and his throat, and made an end of him;
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 3
and Fermaise killed the second of them,
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 3
and Caoilte the third of them in the same way.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 3 · 📍 [[the House of Arms]]
And she took a crystal vessel and put herbs into it, and she bruised them and put them in the water, and gave the bowl to Caoilte, and he drank a great drink out of it, that made him cast up the poison of the spear that was in him.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Ilbrec of Ess Ruadh · Part 3 · the length of three days and three nights
“The washing of Flann, daughter of Flidais, will be done for you now,” she said, “and the head that washing is done for will never be troubled with pain, or baldness, or weakness of sight.”
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Cruachan · 📍 [[Cruachan]] · to-night
Then Cascorach blew a blast against her, and put his finger into the thong of his spear, and made a cast at the girl that went through her, and that is the way she was made an end of by Cascorach of the Music.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Cave of Cruachan · 📍 [[the Cave of Cruachan]] · on the morrow
And when Caoilte saw them there side by side, and elbow by elbow, he made a cast of his spear, and it went through the three women, that they were like a skein of thread drawn together on the spear.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 1 · 📍 [[Slieve Echtge]] · one time
Finn and the Fianna made a great hunting one time on the hill of Torc that is over Loch Lein and Feara Mor. And they went on with their hunting till they came to pleasant green Slieve Echtge, and from that it spread over other green-topped hills, and through thick tangled woods, and rough red-headed hills, and over the wide plains of the country.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 1 · that day
It happened that day no one stopped with Finn but only Diorraing, son of Domhar. "Well, Diorraing," said Finn, "let you watch for me while I go asleep, for it is early I rose to-day, and it is an early rising a man makes when he cannot see the shadow of his five fingers between himself and the light of day, or know the leaves of the hazel from the leaves of the oak." With that he fell into a quiet sleep that lasted till the yellow light of the evening. And the rest of the Fianna, not knowing where he was gone, gave over the hunt.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ceann Slieve]]
Finn Finndealbh Conan of Ceann Slieve
And they had a great deal of talk together, and at last, seeing her so beautiful, the colour of gold on her curled hair, and her eyes as blue as flowers, and a soft four-cornered cloak fastened at her breast with a silver pin, he asked her of Conan for his wife. "Leave asking that, Finn," said Conan, "for your own courage is not greater than the courage of the man she is promised to." "Who is that?" said Finn. "He is Fatha, son of the King of Ess Ruadh," said Conan.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ceann Slieve]]
"I will not be making a quarrel with you," said Conan, "but I put you under bonds as a true hero to answer me everything I am going to ask you." "I will do that," said Finn.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 2 · 📍 [[Fotharladh of Moghna]] · early on the morrow
And early on the morrow two of them, Bran Beag and Bran Mor, rose up and went to Mac-an-Reith, son of the Ram, that had the gift of true knowledge, and they asked him where did Finn spend the night. And Mac-an-Reith was someway unwilling to tell them, but at the last he said it was at the house of Conan of Ceann Slieve.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 2
"Bid all the Fianna to come to the feast at the end of a month," said Conan then. So Finn and Diorraing and the two Brans went back to where the Fianna were and told them all that had happened, and they went on to Almhuin.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 2 · 📍 [[Magh Feabhail]] · early in the morning
Failbhe Mor Failbhe Beag Fionnbhar
And these two went away early in the morning to Fionnbhar of Magh Feabhail, and told him of the insults Finn and the Fianna of Ireland had a mind to put on the Tuatha de Danaan.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 2 · 📍 [[the edge of Loch Derg Dheirc]] · at the end of a month
And when Fionnbhar that was king over the Tuatha de Danaan heard that, he sent out messengers through the length of Ireland to gather them all to him. And there came six good battalions to him on the edge of Loch Derg Dheirc at the end of a month; and it was the same day Conan had the wedding-feast made ready for Finn and his people.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 3 · 📍 [[Conan's house]]
She went on to the house then, and took her stand before Finn outside. "Who is that before me?" she said then. "It is I myself," said Finn. "I put you under the bonds a true hero never broke," she said, "to come out to me here." When Finn heard that, he made no delay and went out to her;
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 3
Caoilte Ethne (the woman-Druid)
On that Caoilte made a leap forward, and when he was in front of the witch he turned about and gave a blow of his sword that made two equal halves of her.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 3 · 📍 [[the lawn before Conan's dun]]
And he broke through the Tuatha de Danaan till he reached to Fionnbhar their leader, and they attacked one another, cutting and wounding, till at the last Fionnbhar of Magh Feabhail fell by the strokes of Goll.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 3 · 📍 [[the lawn before Conan's dun]] · after a while
But after a while they saw the rest of the Fianna that were not in the battle coming from all parts of Ireland. And when the Tuatha de Danaan saw them coming, they put the Druid mist about themselves again and made away.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Wedding at Ceann Slieve · Part 3 · 📍 [[Almhuin of Leinster]] · a long time
And there were many men of the Fianna lost in that battle; and as to the rest, it is a long time they stopped in Almhuin of Leinster, till their wounds were entirely healed.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Shadowy One · 📍 [[Glandeirgdeis]]
And when they came to the door of the house he struck the pig with his Druid rod, and on the moment it changed into a beautiful young woman, and the name he called her by was Scathach, the Shadowy One.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn's Madness · 📍 [[the hill]] · by the time Caoilte had brought back the whole of the Fianna
And with the end of the day and the fall of night the bitterness went from Finn's tongue; and by the time Caoilte had brought back the whole of the Fianna, his sense and his memory were come back to him
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 1
Bran took a grip of the worm and shook it
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 1 · 📍 [[the wood]]
Then she made herself into a Red Woman again, and went away into the wood.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2 · just at the setting of the sun
Then Finn and his men came up, but in place of a beast it was a tall man they saw lying dead before them. And the Red Woman came up at the same time, and she said: "High King of the Fianna, that is the King of the Firbolgs you have killed; and his people will put great troubles on this country in the time to come, when you yourself, Finn, and your people will be under the sod.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2
And the Red Woman came up at the same time, and she said: "High King of the Fianna, that is the King of the Firbolgs you have killed; and his people will put great troubles on this country in the time to come, when you yourself, Finn, and your people will be under the sod.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2
There was great wonder on Finn; but before he could ask a question of the Red Woman, she was gone out of sight.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn and the Phantoms · 📍 [[Aonach Clochair]] · when the games were over
And Fiachu, son of Eoghan, was in it; and when the games were over he gave good presents to Finn, a lasting black horse that won the three prizes of the gathering, and a chariot, and a horse for the chariot-driver, and a spear, having a deadly spell, and weapons of silver, and three comely hounds, Feirne and Derchaem and Dialath, having collars of yellow gold and chains of white bronze.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn and the Phantoms · through the whole night
With that all in the house made an attack on the three; and they were driven back into the corner, and the fire was quenched, and the fight went on through the whole night in the darkness, and but for Finn and the way he fought, they would have been put down.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn and the Phantoms · after awhile
But after awhile they rose up again, and there was nothing to be seen of the house or of the people of the house, but they had all vanished.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn and the Phantoms · 📍 [[Ireland]] · at the end of nine days
And when they came back, a heavy sickness fell on the young man through the eyes and the envy of the Fianna, and it left him without life at the end of nine days.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn and the Phantoms · 📍 [[the same green hill]] · one day
And one day she died there for grief after her son, and they put her into the same green hill.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · Finn and the Phantoms · 📍 [[Loch Cuilinn and Loch Neathach, and at Beinn Edair]]
But as to Finn, he was afraid of no earthly thing, and he killed many great serpents in Loch Cuilinn and Loch Neathach, and at Beinn Edair;
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Pigs of Angus · at evening
And at evening when the hunt was over, there was not one pig of the whole herd without a hurt, and there were but a hundred and ten pigs left living. But if the hunt brought destruction on Angus, it brought losses on the Fianna as well, for there were ten hundred of their men missing besides serving-lads and dogs.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Pigs of Angus
And I will put a curse on you, Bran," he said, "beyond every hound in Ireland, that you will never see with your eyes any deer you may ever kill.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn · 📍 [[Slieve Cuilinn]]
And I put you under bonds, Finn of the Fianna," she said, "to bring it back to me out of the lake.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn · 📍 [[Slieve Cuilinn]]
And when Finn came up on the bank of the lake, he could not so much as reach to where his clothes were; for on the moment he, the head and the leader of the Fianna of Ireland, was but a grey old man, weak and withered.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn · 📍 [[Slieve Cuilinn]]
Then Finn told them the whole story; and when the seven battalions of the Fianna heard him, and knew it was Finn that was in it, they gave three loud sorrowful cries.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn
Finn Miluchradh Cuilinn Aine (sister of Miluchradh)
And as to Finn, they asked him was there any cure to be found for him. "There is," he said; "for I know well the enchantment was put on me by a woman of the Sidhe, Miluchradh, daughter of Cuilinn, through jealousy of her sister Aine. And bring me to the hill that belongs to Cuilinn of Cuailgne," he said, "for he is the only one can give me my shape again."
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn · 📍 Cuailgne · three nights and three days
And at the end of that time Cuilinn of Cuailgne, that some say was Manannan, son of Lir, came out of the hill, holding in his hand a vessel of red gold, and he gave the vessel into Finn's hand. And no sooner did Finn drink what was in the vessel than his own shape and his appearance came back to him.
The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Hunt of Slieve Cuilinn
Finn Miluchradh Aine (sister of Miluchradh)
That, now, is the way Finn came by his grey hair, through the jealousy of Miluchradh of the Sidhe, because he had not given his love to her, but to her sister Aine.
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]] · one time
It was that Eoghan was driven out of Ireland one time, and it is to Spain he went for safety.
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 1 · one day
And one day there was an attack made on a troop of the Fianna, and all that were in it went out to fight, but they left Osgar after them. And when he knew the fight was going on, he took a log of wood that was the first thing he could find, and attacked the enemy and made a great slaughter, and they gave way and ran before him.
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2 · 📍 [[Beinn Edair]]
So they gave those sureties, and the wedding-feast was made, and they stopped there for twenty nights.
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2 · 📍 [[wide Almhuin]] · the first seven years
“Bring her to wide Almhuin for the first seven years,” said Finn.
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2 · 📍 [[Beinn Edair]] · a while after that
But a while after that, in a great battle at Beinn Edair, Osgar got so heavy a wound that Finn and the Fianna were as if they had lost their wits.
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2
and she went to her bed and her heart broke in her like a nut; and she died of grief for her husband and her first love.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · at the time he was born
Diarmuid Donn (father of Diarmuid) Duibhne Crochnuit
Diarmuid, now, was son of Bonn, son of Duibhne of the Fianna, and his mother was Crochnuit, that was near in blood to Finn. And at the time he was born, Bonn was banished from the Fianna because of some quarrel they had with him, and Angus Og took the child from him to rear him up at Brugh na Boinne.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]] · at the time he was born
Donn (father of Diarmuid) Angus Og Diarmuid
Diarmuid, now, was son of Bonn, son of Duibhne of the Fianna, and his mother was Crochnuit, that was near in blood to Finn. And at the time he was born, Bonn was banished from the Fianna because of some quarrel they had with him, and Angus Og took the child from him to rear him up at Brugh na Boinne.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]]
Donn (father of Diarmuid) Angus Og Diarmuid
And after a while Crochnuit bore another son to Roc Diocain, that was Head Steward to Angus. Roc Diocain went then to Donn, and asked would he rear up his son for him, the way Angus was rearing Donn's son. But Donn said he would not take the son of a common man into his house, and it would be best for Angus to take him. So Angus took the child into Brugh na Boinne, and he and Diarmuid were reared up together.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]]
It chanced after a while a great fight rose between two of Finn's hounds about some broken meat that was thrown to them; and the women and the common people of the place ran from them, and the others rose up to part them from one another. And in running away, the Steward's child ran between the knees of Donn, and Donn gave the child a strong squeeze between his two knees that killed him on the moment, and he threw him under the feet of the hounds.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · Then
Finn Donn (father of Diarmuid) Roc Diocain
So they looked at the child, and there was no scratch or mark of a tooth on him at all. Then the Steward put Finn under the destroying bonds of the Druid cave of Cruachan, to give him knowledge of who it was killed his son. And Finn asked for a chess-board, and for water to be brought to him, in a basin of pale gold, and he searched, and it was shown to him truly that it was Donn had killed the Steward's son between his two knees.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]] · afterwards
Then the Steward came again, having a Druid rod with him, and he struck his own son with the rod, and he made of him a wild boar, without bristle or ear or tail, and he said: "I put you under bonds to bring Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, to his death; and your own life will be no longer than his life," he said.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · Birth of Diarmuid · when Diarmuid came to his full strength
And when Diarmuid came to his full strength he was given a place among the Fianna of Ireland; and all women loved him, and he did many great deeds, fighting with the enemies of the Fianna and of Ireland; and one time he fought a wild ox through the length of seven days and seven nights on the top of the Mountain of Happiness.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 1
So she came in under the covering, and he turned a fold of it between them. But it was not long till he looked at her, and what he saw was a beautiful young woman beside him, and she asleep.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 1 · in the morning
And in the morning two men of the Fianna came in, and they said they were after seeing a great house up on the hill, where there was not a house before. "Rise up, Diarmuid," said the strange woman then; "do not be lying there any longer, but go up to your house, and look out now and see it," she said.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 1
They went up then to the house, and it was ready for them, with food and servants; and everything they could wish for they had it. They stopped there for three days, and when the three days were ended, she said: "You are getting to be sorrowful because you are away from your comrades of the Fianna." "I am not sorrowful indeed," said Diarmuid. "It will be best for you to go to them; and your food and your drink will be no worse when you come back than they are now," said she. "Who will take care of my greyhound bitch and her three pups if I go?" said Diarmuid. "There is no fear for them," said she. So when he heard that, he took leave of her and went back to the Fianna, and there was a great welcome before him. But for all that they were not well pleased but were someway envious, Diarmuid to have got that grand house and her love from the woman they themselves had turned away.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 1
Now as to the woman, she was outside the house for a while after Diarmuid going away, and she saw Finn, son of Cumhal, coming towards her, and she bade him welcome. "You are vexed with me, Queen?" he said. "I am not indeed," she said; "and come in now and take a drink of wine from me." "I will go in if I get my request," said Finn. "What request is there that you would not get?" said she. "It is what I am asking, one of the pups of Diarmuid's greyhound bitch." "That is no great thing to ask," she said; "and whichever one you choose of them you may bring it away."
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 1 · At the fall of night
At the fall of night Diarmuid came back to the house, and the greyhound met him at the door and gave a yell when she saw him, and he looked for the pups, and one of them was gone. There was anger on him then, and he said to the woman: "If you had brought to mind the way you were when I let you in, and your hair hanging, you would not have let the pup be brought away from me." "You ought not to say that, Diarmuid," said she. "I ask your pardon for saying it," said Diarmuid. And they forgave one another, and he spent the night in the house.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 2 · On the morrow
She gave him that, and he went away bringing the pup with him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 2 · The next day
The next day he went back again to the Fianna, and when he was gone, the woman saw Caoilte coming towards her, and he would not come in to take a drink from her till he had got the promise of one of the pups the same as the others.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 2 · on the morrow
He asked forgiveness of her then, and he thought to go into the house, but it was gone and the woman was gone on the moment, and it was on the bare ground he awoke on the morrow.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 2
So he set out through the lonely valleys, and the first thing he saw was the greyhound lying dead, and he put her on his shoulder and would not leave her because of the love he had for her.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 2 · 📍 [[Land-under-Wave]] · for seven years
The daughter of King Under-Wave is come home," she said, "and she was for seven years under enchantment, and there is sickness on her now, and all the physicians are gathered together and none of them can do her any good, and a bed of rushes is what she finds the wholesomest.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 2 · 📍 [[Land-under-Wave]]
O come here to me," said the daughter of King Under-Wave, and Diarmuid went over to her, and they took one another's hands, and were very joyful at that meeting. "Three parts of my sickness is gone from me now," she said then; "but I am not well yet, and I never will be, for every time I thought of you, Diarmuid, on my journey, I lost a drop of the blood of my heart.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 3 · seven years before you were born
Diarmuid King of the Plain of Wonder
for seven years before you were born it was put in the prophecy that you would come to destroy them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 3
King of the Plain of Wonder Diarmuid
Then the King of the Plain of Wonder gave Diarmuid the cup, and they parted from one another;
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 3 · at the third draught
Diarmuid Daughter of King Under-Wave
So Diarmuid did as he bade him, and he brought the water and the cup and the drops of blood to the woman, and she drank them, and at the third draught she was healed. And no sooner was she healed than the love he had for her was gone, and he turned away from her.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Daughter of King Under-wave · Part 3
And as to Diarmuid, he would take no reward and he would not stop there, but he asked for a ship to bring him home to Ireland, to Finn and the Fianna. And when he came where they were, there was a joyful welcome before him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 1
“I never did indeed,” said Finn, “and I will not refuse you.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 1
The big man pulled off the iron halter then from his horse, and it made off as hard as it could go, till it came where the horses of the Fianna were; and it began to tear and to kick and to bite at them, killing and maiming.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 2
And when Conan found that he was not able to come down off the horse, he screeched and shouted to them not to let him be brought away with the big man they knew nothing of, and he began abusing and reproaching them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
We are sons of the King of the Eastern World," they said, "and we are come to Ireland asking to be taken into the service of Finn; for we heard there was not a man in all Ireland,
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 2 · on the moment
Then Feradach, the Very Brave, struck three blows on his sling-stick with the axe that he had, and the whole of the Fianna bowed their heads, and on the moment the whole of the bay and of the harbour was filled with ships and with fast boats.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 2 · 📍 [[the stepping-stones of the Cat's Head]]
They came then in small companies as they chanced to be, till they came to the stepping-stones of the Cat's Head in the western part of Corca Duibhne. And they asked news of Finn, what had happened that he called them away from their hunting, and Finn told them all that had happened.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 2
Then Finn and Oisin went into council together, and it is what they agreed; that as but fifteen of his people were brought away from Finn, he himself with fifteen others would go on their track; Oisin to be left at the head of the Fianna to guard Ireland.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 3 · till the end of the day
And it was in no friendly way he spoke to Diarmuid when he came up to him, but he gave him great abuse. "It is no right thing," he said, "to be walking through my thickets and to be drinking up my share of water." With that they faced one another angrily, and they fought till the end of the day. The Enchanter thought it well to leave off fighting then, and he made a leap into the bottom of the well away from him, but there was vexation on Diarmuid to be left like that.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 3 · 📍 [[the well]] · in the evening
He rose up early on the morrow, and he found the Enchanter at the well before him. "It seems to me, Grandson of Duibhne," he said, "that it is not enough for you to be walking my scrub and my woods without killing my deer as well." With that they started again, giving one another blow for blow, thrust for thrust, and wound for wound till the end of the day came on them. And Diarmuid killed another great deer that night, and in the morning the fight began again. But in the evening, when the Enchanter was making his leap into the well, Diarmuid threw his arms about his neck, thinking to stop him, but it is what happened, he fell in himself. And when he was at the bottom of the well the Enchanter left him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 3 · 📍 [[the plain]]
But that put no fear or cowardice on him, but he went through them and over them like a hawk would go through little birds, or a wild dog through a flock of sheep, killing all before him, till some of them made away to the woods and wastes, and another share of them through the gates of the dun, and they shut them, and the gates of the city after them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 4 · 📍 [[Land-Under-Wave]]
he was put in a house of healing that was in the city, and good herbs were put to his hurts till he was smooth and sound again.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 4 · 📍 [[land of Sorcha]]
And when they came up with it they made great slaughter of its champions, and those they did not kill ran before them, and made no better stand than a flock of frightened birds, till there were hardly enough of them left to tell the story.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 4 · from this out
But from this out," he said, "I will banish the Sons of the Gael for ever to the very ends of the earth."
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 4 · at the last
Finn High King of Greece Osgar Oisin Goll
And at the last the King of Greece brought all his people back home, the way no more of them would be put an end to.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 4 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
And it would take too long to tell, and it would tire the hearers, how Finn made the Hard Servant bring home his fifteen men that he had brought away. And when he had brought them back to Ireland, the whole of the Fianna were watching to see him ride away again, himself and his long-legged horse.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 4 · while they were watching him
But while they were watching him, he vanished from them, and all they could see was a mist, and it stretching out towards the sea.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The House of the Quicken Trees · 📍 [[House of the Quicken Trees]] · after a while
And he tried to rise up, but he could not stir, or any of the rest of them, for there was enchantment that kept them where they were.
The Fianna · Diarmuid · The House of the Quicken Trees · 📍 [[House of the Rowan Trees]] · at the last
And at the last it was Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, that made an end of Miodac that was so treacherous, and of the Three Kings of the Island of the Floods, and took the enchantment off the floor of the House of the Rowan Trees with their blood.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Flight from Teamhair · Part 2 · to-night before the awaking of Finn and of the King of Ireland from their sleep
"If that is so," said Grania, "I put you under Druid bonds, to bring me out of this house to-night before the awaking of Finn and of the King of Ireland from their sleep."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Flight from Teamhair · Part 2
With that Diarmuid stood up and stretched out his hand for his weapons, and he said farewell to Oisin and the others, and every tear he shed was of the size of a mountain berry. He went out then to the wall of the dun, and he put the shafts of his two spears under him, and he rose with a light leap and he came down on the grassy earth outside, and Grania met him there.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Flight from Teamhair · Part 2
Diarmuid went down to the river then, and he brought a horse with him over the ford, and left the other horse the far side of the river. And he himself and Grania went a good way with the stream westward, and they went to land at the side of the province of Connacht.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Flight from Teamhair · Part 2 · 📍 [[Doire-da-Bhoth]]
And from that they went on to Doire-da-Bhoth, the Wood of the Two Huts. And Diarmuid cut down the wood round about them, and he made a fence having seven doors of woven twigs, and he set out a bed of soft rushes and of the tops of the birch-tree for Grania in the very middle of the wood.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Pursuit · Part 1 · 📍 [[Doire-da-Bhoth]] · early in the morning of the morrow
All that were in Teamhair rose up early in the morning of the morrow, and they found Diarmuid and Grania were wanting from them, and there came a scorching jealousy and a weakness on Finn. He sent out his trackers then on the plain, and bade them to follow Diarmuid and Grania.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Pursuit · Part 1
So they made him give out three shouts the way Diarmuid would hear him. And Diarmuid heard him, and he said to Grania: "I hear Caoilte's serving-man, and it is with Caoilte he is, and it is along with Finn Caoilte is, and those shouts were sent as a warning to me."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Pursuit · Part 1 · 📍 [[Doire-da-Bhoth]] · at this time
"Let each of you come under a border of my cloak, so," said Angus, "and I will bring you out of the place where you are without knowledge of Finn or his people." "Bring Grania with you," said Diarmuid, "but I will never go with you; but if I am alive I will follow you before long.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Pursuit · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ros-da-Shoileach]]
With that Angus put Grania under the border of his cloak, and brought her out unknown to Finn or the Fianna, and there is no news told of them till they came to Ros-da-Shoileach, the Headland of the Two Sallows.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Pursuit · Part 2
But when Diarmuid heard what he said, he rose on the staves of his spears and he went with a very high, light leap on far beyond Finn and his people, without their knowledge. He looked back at them then, and called out that he had gone past them, and he put his shield on his back and went straight on towards the west, and it was not long before he was out of sight of Finn and the Fianna.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Pursuit · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ros-da-Shoileach]]
He found Angus and Grania there in a sheltered, well-lighted cabin, and a great blazing fire kindled in it, and the half of a wild boar on spits. Diarmuid greeted them, and the life of Grania all to went out of her with joy before him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 1
"Three kings we are of the Green Champions of Muir-na-locht," said they; "and Finn, son of Cumhal, sent looking for us by cause of a thief of the woods, and an enemy of his own that has gone hiding from him; and it is to hinder him we are come.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 1 · 📍 [[the hill]] · that night
Diarmuid Dubh-chosach Fionn-chosach Treun-chosach
But they said he was a man had never seen a good trick when he called that a trick; and with that a man of them went up on the tun, but Diarmuid gave a stroke of his foot at it and the young man fell from it before it began to move, and it rolled over him and crushed him, that he died. And another man went on it, and another after him again, till fifty of them were killed trying to do Diarmuid's trick, and as many of them as were not killed went back to their ships that night.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2 · yesterday
Then a young man of the Green Champions said: "It is a man has never seen feats that would call that a feat"; and he put off his clothing and made a leap, and if he did he came down heavily on the point of the spear, and it went through his heart, and he fell to the ground.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
"That is a foolish question," said a man of them then, "for there was never any feat done in Ireland but a man of our own would do it." And with that he rose up to walk on the sword; but it is what happened, he came down heavily on it the way he was cut in two halves.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2 · 📍 [[Muir-na-locht]]
They came to land then, and they asked had he news of the grandson of Duibhne. "I saw him not long ago," said Diarmuid. "If that is so, let us know where is he," said they, "till we bring his head to Finn, son of Cumhal." "I would be keeping bad watch for him if I did that," said Diarmuid, "for his life and his body are under the protection of my valour, and by reason of that I will do no treachery on him." "Is that true?" said they. "It is true indeed," said Diarmuid. "Let you yourself quit this place, so," they said, "or we will bring your head to Finn since you are an enemy to him." "It is in bonds I would be," said Diarmuid, "the time I would leave my head with you." And with that he drew his sword the Mor-alltach out of its sheath, and he made a fierce blow at the head nearest him that put it in two halves. Then he made an attack on the whole host of the Green Champions, and began to destroy them, cutting through the beautiful shining armour of the men of Muir-na-locht till there was hardly a man but got shortening of life and the sorrow of death, or that could go back to give news of the fight, but only the three kings and a few of their people that made their escape back to their ships.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2
But at the last Diarmuid raised up Dubh-chosach on his shoulder and threw his body to the ground, and bound him fast and firm on the spot.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2 · then
Diarmuid Fionn-chosach Treun-chosach
And Fionn-chosach and Treun-chosach came one after the other to fight with him then, and he put the same binding on them; and he said he would strike the heads off them, only he thought it a worse punishment to leave them in those bonds.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2 · 📍 [[the hill]]
Dubh-chosach Fionn-chosach Treun-chosach
As to the strangers, as many of them as were alive yet, they came to the hill where their three leaders were bound, and they thought to loose them; but it is the way those bonds were, all they did by meddling with them was to draw them tighter.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 3
Diarmuid Woman of the Black Mountain
I give you my word," she said, "it was Diarmuid himself that was in it; and take your hounds now and lay them on his track, and I will send Finn and the Fianna of Ireland to you.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 3 · 📍 [[Lic Dhubhain]]
And then Diarmuid took up his arms and his battle clothes, and put his narrow-topped finger into the silken string of the Gae Dearg, and he made a good cast at the young man of the green cloak that was at the head of the troop that killed him. Then he made another cast at the second man and killed him, and the third man in the same way.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 3
Woman of the Black Mountain Finn
Then she told Finn the whole story from beginning to end, of the destruction Diarmuid had done, and how the three deadly hounds had fallen by him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 3
Neither would Conan help them, or Lugaidh's Son. And any way, they were not long talking about it till the three kings died under the hardness of the bonds that were on them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1 · 📍 [[Loch Lein]] · one time
Aine Aoife (daughter of Manannan)
There rose a dispute one time between two women of the Tuatha de Danaan, Aine and Aoife, daughters of Manannan, son of Lir, for Aoife had given her love to Lugaidh's Son, and Aine had given her love to a man of her own race, and each of them said her own man was a better hurler than the other. And it came from that dispute that there was a great hurling match settled between the Men of Dea and the Fianna of Ireland, and the place it was to be played was on a beautiful plain near Loch Lein.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1 · 📍 [[the wood of Dubhros]]
And he slept in the tree by night and stopped near it in the daytime, and he made a wilderness of the whole district about him, and none of the Fianna dared go hunt there because of the dread of him that was on them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1
Very black and ugly he was, having crooked teeth, and one eye only in the middle of his forehead. And he had a thick collar of iron around his body, and it was in the prophecy that he would never die till there would be three strokes of the iron club he had, struck upon himself.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1 · 📍 [[the wood of Dubhros]]
But when Diarmuid came to the wood of Dubhros, he went into it to where the Surly One was, and he made bonds of agreement with him, and got leave from him to go hunting in the wood, so long as he would not touch the berries of the tree.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 2 · 📍 [[Almhuin]]
I am Aonghus, son of Art Og of the children of Morna," one of them said, "and this is Aodh, son of Andela; and we are enemies of your own, and our fathers were at the killing of your father, and they themselves died for that deed. And it is to ask peace we are come now to you,
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 2 · 📍 [[Almhuin]]
Finn Aonghus Aodh (son of Andela)
"I will give you that," said Finn, "but I must put a fine on you first in satisfaction for my father's death."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 2 · 📍 [[Almhuin]]
Finn Aonghus Aodh (son of Andela)
"I am asking but the head of a champion, or the full of a fist of the berries of the quicken-tree at Dubhros."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 2 · 📍 [[Dubhros]]
And the two said farewell then to Oisin and to the chief men of the Fianna, and they went forward till they reached Dubhros.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 2 · 📍 [[Dubhros]]
Diarmuid Aonghus Aodh (son of Andela)
And Diarmuid put them down and bound the two of them there and then.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 2 · 📍 [[Dubhros]]
Diarmuid Aonghus Aodh (son of Andela)
So Diarmuid did that for them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 3 · 📍 [[Dubhros]]
Then Diarmuid rose up and gave three kisses to Grania in the sight of Finn and the Fianna. And a scorching jealousy and a weakness came on Finn when he saw that, and he said: "It was worse to me, Diarmuid, the seven battalions of the Fianna to see what you did at Teamhair, taking away Grania the night you were yourself my guard. But for all that," he said, "you will give your head for the sake of those three kisses."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4
With that Finn called to the four hundred paid fighting men that were with him that they might make an end of Diarmuid; and he put their hands into one another's hands around that quicken-tree, and bade them, if they would not lose their lives, not to let Diarmuid pass out through them. And he said that to whatever man would take Diarmuid, he would give his arms and his armour, and a place among the Fianna of Ireland.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4 · Then
Then one of the Fianna, Garbh of Slieve Cua, said it was Diarmuid had killed his own father, and he would avenge him now, and he went up the quicken-tree to make an end of him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4
Garbh of Slieve Cua Diarmuid Angus Og
And when Garbh of Slieve Cua was coming up the tree, Diarmuid gave him a kick of his foot, and he fell down among the hired men, and they struck off his head, for Angus Og had put the appearance of Diarmuid on him. But after he was killed, his own shape came on him again, and the Fianna knew that it was Garbh was killed.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4 · Then
Then Garbh of Slieve Crot said it was Diarmuid had killed his father, and he went up to avenge him, and the same thing happened.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4 · in the end
Garbh of Slieve Guaire Garbh of Slieve Muice Garbh of Slieve Mor Garbh of Slieve Lugha Garbh of Ath Fraoch Garbh of Slieve Mis Garbh of Drom-mor Diarmuid
And in the end all the nine Garbhs, of Slieve Guaire, and Slieve Muice, and Slieve Mor, and Slieve Lugha, and Ath Fraoch, and Slieve Mis and Drom-mor, went trying to take Diarmuid's life and lost their own lives, every one of them having the shape and appearance of Diarmuid when he died.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4 · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]]
Then Angus said he would bring away Grania with him. "Do so," said Diarmuid; "and if I am living at evening I will follow you." Then Angus said farewell to Diarmuid, and he put his Druid cloak about Grania and about himself, and they went away in the safety of the cloak, unknown to Finn and the Fianna, till they came to Brugh na Boinne.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4
"It is the truth Diarmuid is speaking," said Osgar, "and give him forgiveness now, and peace." "I will not do that," said Finn, "to the end of life and time; and he will not get peace or rest for ever till I get satisfaction from him for every reproach he has put on me."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4 · to-day
"And I give the word of a true champion," he said, "that unless the skies come down upon me, or the earth opens under my feet, I will not let you or any one of the Fianna of Ireland give him cut or wound; and I take his body and his life under the protection of my valour, and I will keep him safe against all the men of Ireland."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 4
Then Diarmuid stood up on a high bough of the boughs of the tree, and he rose with a light leap by the shaft of his spear, and lit on the grass far beyond Finn and the Fianna. And he himself and Osgar went towards one another, in spite of the Fianna that went between them, and Diarmuid struck down those that were in his way;
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wanderers · one time
But one time he made out they were on a mountain, for he saw them with heather under them; and it was beside the sea they were, asleep on heather that Diarmuid had brought down from the hills for their bed; and so he went searching the hills and did not find them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wanderers · 📍 [[Beinn Edair]]
The old woman went out after that, and when she was gone, Grania took hold of the cloak she had left there and she put her tongue to it, and found the taste of salt water on it. "My grief, Diarmuid," she said then, "the old woman has betrayed us. And rise up now," she said, "and put your fighting suit upon you."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wanderers · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]]
And there was a man before them in the boat having beautiful clothes on him, and a wide embroidered golden-yellow cloak over his shoulders behind. And they knew it was Angus was in it, that had come again to help them to escape from Finn, and they went back with him for a while to Brugh na Boinne, and Osgar came to them there.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace · after a while
And after a while Finn bade his people to make his ship ready, and to put a store of food and of drink in it. They did that, and he himself and a thousand of his men went into the ship; and they were nine days between sailing and rowing till they came to harbour in the north of Alban.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace
Then Finn told what it was brought him there, and that it was to ask help and advice against the grandson of Duibhne he was come.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace
"That is true," said the king; "and I will give you my own two sons and a thousand men with each of them."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace
So they came to shore, and made a rush to meet Diarmuid and Osgar. But the two fought so well that they beat them back and scattered them, and made a great slaughter, and put great terror on them, so that at the last there was not a man left to stand against them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace · 📍 [[Land of Promise]] · that night
"I will go with you," said the old woman, "and I will do enchantment on him." Finn was very glad when he heard that, and he stopped there that night, and they set out for Ireland on the morrow.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace
And he lay down on his back, and the Gae Dearg, the Red Spear, in his hand, and he made a great cast of the spear, that it went through the hole, and the hag fell dead on the spot.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · Fighting and Peace
"I am willing," said Diarmuid, "if they will give the conditions I will ask."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 1 · the time you went to the house of Dearc, son of Donnarthadh
Finn Dearc Donnarthadh Diarmuid
And you rose up and would have gone out, but I bade you to stop there at drinking and pleasure, for that I myself would go out and put them down. And I went out, and put out the flames, and made three red rushes round the house, and I killed fifty in every rush, and I came in again without a wound.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 1 · 📍 [[Rath na h-Amhrann]] · this morning
And then the boar made a rush at him, and ripped him open, that his bowels came out about his feet. But if he did, Diarmuid made a cast at him with the hilt of his sword that was in his hand yet, and dashed out his brains, so that he fell dead there and then.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 2 · 📍 [[Beinn Gulbain]]
Oisin Osgar Caoilte Lugaidh's Son Diarmuid
But Oisin and Osgar and Caoilte and Lugaidh's Son turned back again and put their four cloaks over Diarmuid, and then they went after the rest of the Fianna.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 2 · 📍 [[Rath]]
Then she said: "If Diarmuid was living, it is not led by Finn that Mac an Chuill would be coming home." And she was at that time heavy with child, and her strength went from her and she fell down from the wall.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Beinn Gulbain]] · the night before
And Angus spoke then, and it is what he said: "I was never one night since the time I brought you to Brugh na Boinne, being nine months old, without keeping watch and protection over you till last night, Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne; and now your blood has been shed and you have been cut off sharply, and the Boar of Beinn Gulbain has put you down, Diarmuid of the bright face and the bright sword. And it is a pity Finn to have done this treachery," he said, "and you at peace with him.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Brugh na Boinne]]
"And lift up his body now," he said, "and bring it to the Brugh in the lasting rocks. And if I cannot bring him back to life," he said, "I will put life into him the way he can be talking with me every day."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Rath]]
Grania Donnchadh Eochaidh Ollann Connla (son of Diarmuid) Diarmuid Finn
And Grania spoke to them with a very loud, clear voice, and it is what she said: "My dear children, your father has been killed by Finn, son of Cumhal, against his own bond and agreement of peace, and let you avenge it well upon him. And here is your share of the inheritance of your father," she said, "his arms and his armour, and his feats of valour and power; and I will share these arms among you myself," she said, "and that they may bring you victory in every battle.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Rath]]
Grania Donnchadh Eochaidh Ollann Connla (son of Diarmuid)
And make no delay now," she said, "but go and learn every sort of skill in fighting, till such time as you will come to your full strength to avenge your father."
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · after a while
But after a while Finn went secretly and unknown to the Fianna to the place where Grania was, and he got to see her in spite of all her high talk, and he spoke gently to her. And she would not listen to him, but bade him to get out of her sight, and whatever hard thing her tongue could say, she said it. But all the same, he went on giving her gentle talk and loving words, till in the end he brought her to his own will.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3
And there is no news told of them, until such time as they came to where the seven battalions of the Fianna were waiting for Finn. And when they saw him coming, and Grania with him, like any new wife with her husband, they gave a great shout of laughter and of mockery, and Grania bowed down her head with shame,
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Rath Grania]] · at the end of seven years
Donnchadh Eochaidh Ollann Connla (son of Diarmuid) Grania Finn
And as to the sons of Diarmuid, they came back at the end of seven years, after learning all that was to be learned of valour in the far countries of the world. And when they came back to Rath Grania they were told their mother was gone away with Finn, son of Cumhal, without leaving any word for themselves or for the King of Ireland.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Almhuin]] · after that
Donnchadh Eochaidh Ollann Connla (son of Diarmuid) Finn
But after that they said they would make an attack on Finn, and they went forward to Almhuin, and they would take no offers, but made a great slaughter of every troop that came out against them.
The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Boar of Beinn Gulbain · Part 3 · 📍 [[Gabhra]]
Donnchadh Eochaidh Ollann Connla (son of Diarmuid)
and that was little good to them, for they lost their lives with the rest in the battle of Gabhra.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Tailc, Son of Treon
“I am in dread there is some destruction coming on the Fianna,” said the Druid; “but Aodh Beag will not be wounded in the fight, or Goll,” he said.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Tailc, Son of Treon
“I am the daughter of Garraidh, son of Dolar Dian, the Fierce,” she said; “and my curse upon the King of Greece that bound me to the man that is following after me, and that I am going from, Tailc, son of Treon.”
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Tailc, Son of Treon
So a thousand of the Fianna went out to meet him and his men; and if they did they all fell, and not one of them came back again.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Tailc, Son of Treon · the length of five days and five nights
So Osgar went out, and he himself and Tailc, son of Treon, were fighting through the length of five days and five nights without food or drink or sleep. And at the end of that time, Osgar made an end of Tailc, and struck his head off.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Meargach's Wife · Part 1 · through the length of three days
Osgar Meargach of the Green Spears
But in the end Osgar put down Meargach and struck his head off
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Meargach's Wife · Part 1
And it was Goll stood up against Ciardan, and it was not long till he put him down;
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Meargach's Wife · Part 1
But Conan made a quick blow and struck his head off before the fight was begun at all.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Meargach's Wife · Part 1
Meargach of the Green Spears Ciardan the Swift Liagan the Nimble
“High Queen,” said Finn then, “for all they were so complete and quick and strong, the three you are asking for fell in fight.”
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Meargach's Wife · Part 2
And first it was settled for two men of each side to go out against one another; and then Ailne said that there should be thirty men on each side, and then she said she would not be satisfied to go back to her own country till she brought the head of Finn with her, or till the last of his men had fallen.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Ailne's Revenge · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ailne's dun]]
Grey Man Fianna
And the Fianna heard the music as if stammering, and then they heard a great noise like the loud roaring of waves, and when they heard that, there was not one of them but fell into a sleep and clouds of death, under those sorrowful spells.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Ailne's Revenge · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ailne's dun]]
And then the Grey Man and Ailne came out quietly from where they were, and they brought the whole of the men of the Fianna that were there into the dun. And they put hard bonds on them, and put them where Finn and Daire were.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Ailne's Revenge · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ailne's dun]]
But no sooner was he gone than Conan took out the cup that he had hidden, and he gave a drink from it to Finn and to Osgar and to the rest of the Fianna. And they that were withered and shaking, without strength, without courage, got back their own appearance and their strength again on the moment.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Ailne's Revenge · Part 2 · 📍 [[Ailne's dun]] · then and there
And when Ailne saw that, with the grief and the dread that came on her, she fell dead then and there.
The Fianna · Cnoc-an-air · Ailne's Revenge · Part 2 · in the morning
Fianna
But when they rose up in the morning, there was no trace or tidings of the dun, but it was on the bare grass they were lying.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]] · The first day we came back to Ireland
And the first day we came back to Ireland," he said, "we killed sixteen hundred men, and no lie in it, and not a man of them but would be keened by a hundred.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 1 · 📍 [[Almhuin]] · It was not long after that
It was not long after that, Finn gave a feast at Almhuin for all his chief men, and there came to it two sons of the King of Alban, and sons of the kings of the great world.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 1
Fergus of the True Lips Finn Oisin Lugaidh's Son
And Fergus of the True Lips rose up and sang before Finn the songs and the good poems of his forefathers; and Finn and Oisin and Lugaidh's Son rewarded him with every good thing.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 1
And Goll loosened the covering that was about it, and he gave Fergus a good reward from it as he was used to do;
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 2 · 📍 [[Almhuin]] · for a while
And they left off their fighting at the sound of the poets' songs, and they let their weapons fall on the floor, and the poets took them up, and made peace between the fighters; and they put bonds on Finn and on Goll to keep the peace for a while, till they could ask for a judgment from the High King of Ireland.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 2 · 📍 [[Daire Tardha]] · one time
But it broke out again, one time there was a falling out between Finn and Goll as to the dividing of a pig of the pigs of Manannan. And at Daire Tardha, the Oak Wood of Bulls, in the province of Connacht, there was a great fight between Finn's men and the sons of Morna. And the sons of Morna were worsted, and fifteen of their men were killed; and they made their mind up that from that time they would set themselves against any friends of Finn or of his people.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Quarrel with the Sons of Morna · Part 2 · at Samhain time
But she said she would not give up her kind lover to please them; and she was going away from them to her ship, and Art, son of Morna, made a cast of his spear that went through her body, that she died, and her people brought her up from the strand and buried her.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · Death of Goll
And Finn took notice of the way the shield was, and when he knew that Goll had made a cast at Osgar there was greater anger again on him. And he sent out his men and bade them to watch every path and every gap that led to the cave where Goll was, the way they would make an end of him.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · Death of Goll · at the end of twelve days
And he lay down on the rocks, and at the end of twelve days he died.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · Death of Goll · when Conan heard of the death of Goll his brother
And when Conan heard of the death of Goll his brother, there was great anger on him, and he went to Garraidh, and asked him to go with him to Finn to ask satisfaction for Goll. "I am not willing to go," said Garraidh, "since we could get no satisfaction for the great son of Morna." "Whether you have a mind to go or not, I will go," said Conan; "and I will make an end of every man I meet with, for the sake of yellow-haired Goll; I will have the life of Oisin, Finn's great son, and of Osgar and of Caoilte and of Daire of the Songs; I will have no forgiveness for them; we must show no respect for Finn, although we may die in the fight, having no help from Goll.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1
"There will nine hundred fall by yourself," she said; "and the High King himself will get his death-wound from you."
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]] · on the last day of the drinking
There were very high words between them then, and they threatened one another, and at the last the High King said: "I will put my spear of the seven spells out through your body." "And I give my word against that," said Osgar, "I will put my spear of the nine spells between the meeting of your hair and your beard."
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1 · 📍 [[Teamhair]]
With that he and his men rose up and went out of Teamhair, and they stopped to rest beside a river, and there they heard the sound of a very sorrowful tune, that was like keening, played on a harp.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1
And when Finn heard that, he sent a challenge of battle, and he gathered together all the Fianna that were left to him.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1 · 📍 [[the hill of Gabhra]] · that day
And as to Osgar, it would be hard to tell all he killed on that day; five score of the Sons of the Gael, and five score fighting men from the Country of Snow, and seven score of the Men of Green Swords that never went a step backward, and four hundred from the Country of the Lion, and five score of the sons of kings; and the shame was for the King of Ireland.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1 · 📍 [[the hill of Gabhra]] · at the last
But when he saw the High King near him, he made for him like a wave breaking on the strand; and the king saw him coming, and shook his greedy spear, and made a cast of it, and it went through his body and brought him down on his right knee, and that was the first grief of the Fianna.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1 · 📍 [[the hill of Gabhra]]
But Osgar himself was no way daunted, but he made a cast of his spear of the nine spells that went into the High King at the meeting of the hair and the beard, and gave him his death.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 1 · 📍 [[the hill of Gabhra]]
But Osgar saw it, and he lifted a thin bit of a slab-stone that was on the ground beside him, and he made a cast of it that broke the helmet where it was; and then he himself fell like a king.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 2
And when Osgar heard those words he stretched out his hands, and his eyelids closed.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 2 · 📍 [[Gabhra]]
And the whole length of the rath at Gabhra, from end to end, it is that was the grave of Osgar, son of Oisin, son of Finn.
The Fianna · The Wearing Away of the Fianna · The Battle of Gabhra · Part 2 · from that day
And as to Finn himself, he never had peace or pleasure again from that day.
The Fianna · The End of the Fianna · Death of Bran
So the fawn did that, and Bran followed her; and as Bran went under him, Finn squeezed his two knees on her, that she died on the moment.
The Fianna · The End of the Fianna · The Last of the Great Men · the last time
And indeed that was the last time Finn and Oisin and the rest of the Fianna of Ireland were gathered together, for hunting, for battle, for chess-playing, for drinking or for music; for they all wore away after that, one after another.
The Fianna · The End of the Fianna · The Last of the Great Men · 📍 [[a hill of the Sidhe]] · after a while
And after a while he went into a hill of the Sidhe to be healed of his old wounds.
The Fianna · The End of the Fianna · The Last of the Great Men · a long time after that again
And the King of Ireland asked him who was he, and first he said: "I am your candlestick"; and then he said: "I was with Finn one time." And the king knew it was Caoilte, son of Ronan, was in it.
The Fianna · The End of the Fianna · The Last of the Great Men · 📍 [[a cave]] · one time
He gave another blast then, and they all turned on their elbows.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Story · Part 1 · 📍 [[Ireland]]
And whatever happened him through the time he was away, it is a withered old man he was found after coming back to Ireland, and his white horse going away from him, and he lying on the ground.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Story · Part 1 · 📍 [[the Country of the Young]]
And Patrick bade him to tell what happened him the time he left Finn and the Fianna and went away with Niamh. And it is the story Oisin told:--"The time I went away with golden-haired Niamh, we turned our backs to the land, and our faces westward, and the sea was going away before us, and filling up in waves after us.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Story · Part 1
Oisin Niamh Finn (son of Oisin) Osgar (son of Niamh) The Flower
"Two beautiful children I had by Niamh," said Oisin, "two young sons and a comely daughter. And Niamh gave the two sons the name of Finn and of Osgar, and the name I gave to the daughter was The Flower.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Story · Part 2
And I asked leave of the king and of Niamh to go back to Ireland. 'You will get leave from me,' said Niamh; 'but for all that,' she said, 'it is bad news you are giving me, for I am in dread you will never come back here again through the length of your days.'
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Story · Part 2 · 📍 [[Almhuin of Leinster]]
And when I knew by their talk that Finn was not living or any of the Fianna, it is downhearted I was, and tired, and very sorrowful after them. And I made no delay, but I turned my face and went on to Almhuin of Leinster. And there was great wonder on me when I came there to see no sign at all of Finn's great dun, and his great hall, and nothing in the place where it was but weeds and nettles.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Story · Part 2 · in the minute
And when I saw it I had such a wish and such a feeling for it that I forgot what I was told, and I got off the horse. And in the minute all the years came on me, and I was lying on the ground, and the horse took fright and went away and left me there, an old man, weak and spent, without sight, without shape, without comeliness, without strength or understanding, without respect.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin in Patrick's House
"Rear that one," said Oisin, "and drown all the rest."
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin in Patrick's House · at the end of a year
And at the end of a year, Oisin was so well pleased with the pup, that he gave it the name of Bran Og, young Bran.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin in Patrick's House · 📍 [[Gleann-na-Smol]] · one day
Then Oisin took the horn himself, and he put it to his mouth, and blew three great blasts on it.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin in Patrick's House · 📍 [[Gleann-na-Smol]]
The boy did that, and Oisin made a cast of the ball that went into the mouth and the throat of the dog, and choked him, and he fell down the slope, twisting and foaming.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin in Patrick's House · 📍 [[Gleann-na-Smol]]
And then he bade him cut open the body, and in it he found a rowan berry, the biggest he had ever seen, and an ivy leaf that was bigger than the biggest griddle.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin in Patrick's House · one night
Oisin found the night was quiet, and after that he asked no more news of the weather from the servants.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · The Arguments · Part 1
Oisin King of the Saxons of the feats
I have a little story about Finn; we were but fifteen men; we took the King of the Saxons of the feats, and we won a battle against the King of Greece.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · The Arguments · Part 1
Oisin King of Greece (in Oisin's boast)
I have a little story about Finn; we were but fifteen men; we took the King of the Saxons of the feats, and we won a battle against the King of Greece.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · The Arguments · Part 1
Oisin King of Britain of the feasts
I have a little story about Finn. We were but fifteen men when we took the King of Britain of the feasts by the strength of our spears and our own strength.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · The Arguments · Part 3
OISIN. "I do not believe your talk now. O Patrick of the crooked staves, Finn and the Fianna to be there within, unless they find pleasure being in it."
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Laments · 📍 [[Doire an Chairn]]
Doire an Chairn, that wood there to the west, where the Fianna used to be delaying, it is there they put the blackbird, in the beauty of the pleasant trees.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Laments
I rose up then with anger on me, and there followed me the fourth of the brave battalions of the Fianna. I gave my own judgments, there were many of the Fianna with me.
The Fianna · Oisin and Patrick · Oisin's Laments · to-night
I have a little story of our people. One time Finn had a mind to make a dun on the bald hill of Cuailgne, and he put it on the Fianna of Ireland to bring stones for building it; a third on the sons of Morna, a third on myself, and a third on the sons of Baiscne.