Gods and Fighting Men

ace of Cermait Honey-Mouth, and the Prison of the Grey of Macha that was Cuchulain's horse afterwards. And there was a little hill by the house that was called the Comb and the Casket of the Dag

of wood, and the body was iron, and there were twice nine wheels in its axle, that it might turn the faster; and it was as quick as the quickness of a stream in turning

sea was in flood, though it would not lose a drop during the ebb-tide. And she gathered a bundle of twigs to make a new vat for herself, but Gaible, son

g the bright vessels of Fand, daughter of Flidhais; and every evening when he left off work he would make a cast of the anvil eastward to Indeoin na Dese, the An

ke a cast of his axe from Tulach na Bela, the Hill of the Axe, in the face of the fl

he champions of Connacht were following after it with all their strength of running, and their hounds with them, till they got as far as Ceis Corain, and they gave it up there, all except Niall that went on the track of the swine till he found

gth of a day and a night, and that he by his art would take away his power of refusing. So Angus asked for the Brugh, and his father gave it to him for a day and a night. But when

d his people and his household with him, for

y were gone out to get provisions for a feast for Manannan and his friends. A

there to this day, with the hidden walls about him, dri

ful and quick in his temper. And some say it was at Teamhair he made his dwe

e, Corrgenn got it in his mind that there was something that was not right going on between his wife and Aedh, one of the sons

or doing what he did. 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 nev

ne at last, on the shore of Loch Feabhail. So then he left the body up on the nearest hill, and he went down and raised the stone and brought it up and dug a grave and bu

ones and shaped them, and Imheall set them all round the house till the work was finished, and then he closed the top of the house with a slab. And the p