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192 Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race[228][229]So she went to Mananan, and Cuchulain, who did not see thegod, asked Laeg what was happening. “Fand,” he replied, “isgoing away with the Son of the Sea, since she hath not beenpleasing in thy sight.”Then Cuchulain bounded into the air and fled from the place,and lay a long time refusing meat and drink, until at last theDruids gave him a draught of forgetfulness; and Mananan, it issaid, shook his cloak between Cuchulain and Fand, so that theymight meet no more throughout eternity. 161The Vengeance of MaevThough Maev made peace with Ulster after the battle ofGarech she vowed the death of Cuchulain for all the shame andloss he had brought upon her and on her province, and she soughthow she might take her vengeance upon him.Now the wife of the wizard Calatin, whom Cuchulain slew atthe Ford, brought forth, after her husband's death, six childrenat a birth, namely, three sons and three daughters. Misshapen,hideous, poisonous, born for evil were they; and Maev, hearingof these, sent them to learn the arts of magic, not in Ireland only,but in Alba; and even as far as Babylon they went to seek forhidden knowledge, and they came back mighty in their craft, andshe loosed them against Cuchulain.Cuchulain and BlanidBesides the Clan Calatin, Cuchulain had also other foes,namely Ere, the King of Ireland, son to Cairpre, whom Cuchulainhad slain in battle, and Lewy son of Curoi, King of Munster. 162For Curoi's wife, Blanid, had set her love on Cuchulain, and shebade him come and take her from Curoi's dūn, and watch histime to attack the dūn, when he would see the stream that flowedfrom it turn white. So Cuchulain and his men waited in a wood161 The cloak of Mananan (see p. 125) typifies the sea—here, in its dividingand estranging power.162 This Curoi appears in various tales of the Ultonian Cycle with attributeswhich show that he was no mortal king, but a local deity.
CHAPTER V: TALES OF THE ULTONIAN CYCLE 193hard by till Blanid judged that the time was fit, and she thenpoured into the stream the milk of three cows. Then Cuchulainattacked the dūn, and took it by surprise, and slew Curoi, andbore away the woman. But Fercartna, the bard of Curoi, wentwith them and showed no sign, till, finding himself near Blanidas she stood near the cliff-edge of Beara, he flung his arms roundher, and leaped with her over the cliff, and so they perished, andCuroi was avenged upon his wife.All these now did Maev by secret messages and by taunts andexhortations arouse against Cuchulain, and they waited till theyheard that the curse of Macha was again heavy on the men ofUlster, and then they assembled a host and marched to the Plainof Murthemney.The Madness of CuchulainAnd first the Children of Calatin caused a horror and adespondency to fall upon the mind of Cuchulain, and out of thehooded thistles and puff-balls and fluttering leaves of the forestthey made the semblance of armed battalions marching againstMurthemney, and Cuchulain seemed to see on every side thesmoke of burning dwellings going up. And for two days hedid battle with the phantoms till he was sick and wearied out.Then Cathbad and the men of Ulster persuaded him to retire to asolitary glen, where fifty of the princesses of Ulster, and amongthem Niam, wife of his faithful friend Conall of the Victories,tended him, and Niam made him vow that he would not leavethe dūn where he was until she gave him leave.But still the Children of Calatin filled the land with apparitionsof war, and smoke and flames went up, and wild cries and wailings [230]with chattering, goblin laughter and the braying of trumpets andhorns were borne upon the winds. And Bave, Calatin's daughter,went into the glen, and, taking the form of a handmaid of Niam,she beckoned her away and led her to a distance among thewoods and put a spell of straying on her so that she was lost andcould find her way home no more. Bave then went in the form of
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[9]PREFACEThe Past may be forgotten
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PREFACE 3Warwickshire, Leicestershi
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285CHAPTER VIII: MYTHS ANDTALES OF
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287graphically not by a bounding li
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289NenniusThe earliest extant menti
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291wonderful success. It was speedi
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293doubt they were largely Breton.
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295Conqueror into England. 212 The
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297which has since been considered
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301Anlawdd++--------------------+--
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303the original community of Gaelic
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305“I come from battle and confli
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307Sun-god into the western sea, an
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313the knights he had with him, who
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317giant form of Bran. They carouse
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323be weary. “Let us go into Lloe
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325beneath his dignity to take veng
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327rules over the one-and-twenty ca
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329river Conway is still called the
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331special circumstances, and Blode
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333The Story of Lludd and LlevelysT
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337after them a poisoned dart. Bedw
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341Here let us pause for a moment t
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343And first Kai was overthrown, an
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349lord, had been lamed. Peredur ha
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351that the Graal was the Cup of th
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353promoting increase, wealth, and
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355More remotely still the cauldron
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357cauldron, and a blind man named
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359days past, but my wife has never
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361main current of the development
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363To render these names accurately
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365AILBACH (el-yach)Fortress in Co.
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367AMYN´TAS II.King of Macedon, de
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369ARIÁNROD. Sister of Gwydion;pr
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371AVON DIA. Duel between Cuchulain
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373BEN´DIGEID VRAN, or “BRAN THE
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375BŌV THE RED.King of the Danaans
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377BRIGINDO.Equivalents, Brigit and
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381CAULDRON OF ABUNDANCE. See equiv
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383ranges of the Balkans and Carpat
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385CHRY´SOSTOM, DION.Testimony of,
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387CONANN.Fomorian king, 101CONÁR
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389his death caused by Conall's “
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391CUCHULAIN (CUCHULLIN) (coo-hoo´
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393CUMHAL (cooál). Chief of the C
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395DALNY. Queen of Partholan, 96DAM
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399DINÓDIG. Cantrev of, over whic
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401EBER DONN (Brown Eber). Milesian
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403ERINN (ERIN). See Eriu, 132;refe
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405EXCALIBUR.See Caliburn, 338, and
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407FERÁMORC.The kingdom of, over
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409FIANNA (feeánna) OF ERIN, THE.
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411Grania and, 296-304;bewails Osca
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415GERM(ghermawn—g hard). Diuran
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429KIAN. Father of Lugh, 109;brothe
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431LAND OF THE DEAD. “Spain” a
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433LISMORE. “The Dean of Lismore'
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435LUGH (loo), or LUGUS.1. See Apol
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437MACHA. Daughter of Red Hugh, 151
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439MALORY. Anticipated by Wace, 338
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445MOYTURA, PLAIN OF.1. Scene of Fi
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447NECHTAN. Dūn of the sons of, 19
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449NUTT, MR. ALFRED. Reference to,
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451OSSIANIC SOCIETY. “Transaction
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453PLINY. Religion of magic discuss
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461STRABO. Characteristics of Celts
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463TELLTOWN (TELTIN). Palace at, of
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467VALLEY OF THE THRUSHES. Oisīn's
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