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Title: Myths and legends ; the Celtic race
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920
Subjects: Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, Celtic
Publisher: Boston : Nickerson
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ties of flesh, neither can prevail overthe other, and at last night ends the combat. This timethey parted from each other in heaviness and gloom, andthere was no interchange of friendly acts, and theirdrivers and horses slept apart. The passions of thewarriors had now risen to a grim sternness. ^ Together with much that is wild and barbaric in this Irish epicof the Tain * the reader will be struck by the ideals of courtesy andgentleness which not infrequently come to light in it. It must beremembered that, ai Mr. A. H. Leahy points out in his HeroicRomances of Ireland, the legend of the Raid of Quelgny is, at the verylatest, a century earlier than all other known romances of chivalry^Welsh or Continental. It is found in the Book of Leinster, amanuscript of the twelfth century, as well as in other sources, andwas doubtless considerably older than the date of its transcriptionthere. ** The whole thing, says Mr. Leahy, stands at the verybeginning of the literature of modern Europe.* 2l8
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Cuchulain seized Ferdia as he fell 218 DEATH OF FERDIA Death of Ferdia On the fourth day Ferdia knew the contest wouldbe decided, and he armed himself with especial care.Next his skin was a tunic of striped silk bordered withgolden spangles, and over that hung an apron of brownleather. Upon his belly he laid a flat stone, large as amillstone, and over that a strong, deep apron of iron,for he dreaded that Cuchulain would use the Gae Bolgthat day. And he put on his head his crested helmetstudded with carbuncle and inlaid with enamels, andgirt on his golden-hilted sword, and on his left armhung his broad shield with its fifty bosses of bronze.Thus he stood by the Ford, and as he waited he tossedup his weapons and caught them again and did manywonderful feats, playing with his mighty weapons as ajuggler plays with apples; and Cuchulain, watching him,said to Laeg, his driver : If I give ground to-day, dothou reproach and mock me and spur me on to valour,and praise and hearten me if I do we

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