...the cloth, at the foot of the tree, cried out, Awake, awake, thou silent tide ! From the Dead Women's Land a horseman rides, From my head the green cloth snatching. At the words the waters rose ; and so fiercely did they pursue him that as he gained the edge of the lake...

...plenty and prosperity, much the same is said of Conaire's reign, until Midir's vengeance overtook him.16 Prosperity was supposed to characterize every good...Celts must have had. CHAPTER XII THE HEROIC MYTHS I. CtJCHULAINN AND HIS CIRCLE THE Celts possessed many myths regarding ideal heroic figures or actual...

...first celebrated that of Lugnasad, not in his own honour, but to the glory of his foster-mother.19 The mythic trees of Elysium were not unknown on earth,...Celts must have had. CHAPTER XII THE HEROIC MYTHS I. CUCHULAINN AND HIS CIRCLE Celts possessed many myths regarding ideal heroic JL figures or actual heroes...

...first celebrated that of Lugnasad, not in his own honour, but to the glory of his foster-mother.16 The mythic trees of Elysium were not unknown on earth,...Few and fragmentary as these myths are, they, with t classical myths already cited,20 prove what a rich cosmogon the ancient Celts must have had. CHAPTER...

...— or perhaps mad — the man snatched the cloth. As he fled, the knitting woman called out, "Awake! From the Dead Woman's Land a horseman rides, from my head the green cloth snatching." Lough Gur's waters rose, reclaiming the cloth. Some say that if the man had escaped with it, the lake's...

...the cloth, at the foot of the tree, cried out, Awake, awake, thou silent tide ! From the Dead Women's Land a horseman rides, From my head the green cloth snatching. At the words the waters rose ; and so fiercely did they pursue him that as he gained the edge of the lake...