Er´emon. First Milesian king of all Ireland, 143, 144, 148

Eri. Mother of King Bres, 107-108;

reveals father of Bres as Elatha, 108

Erinn (Erin). See Eriu, 132;

reference to High-Kingship of, 152

Eriu. Wife of Danaan king MacGrené, 132;

dative form, Erinn, poetic name applied to Ireland, 132

Erris Bay. The Children of Lir at, 141, 142

Et´ain.

Second bride of Midir the Proud, 156;

transformed by Fuamnach into a butterfly, 156;

driven by a magic tempest into the fairy palace of Angus, 156;

again the magic tempest drives her forth, 156;

swallowed by Etar, and reappears as a mortal child, 156, 157;

visited by Eochy, the High King, who wooes and makes her his wife, 157, 158;

the desperate love of Ailill for, 158-160;

Midir the Proud comes to claim, as his Danaan wife, 160-163;

recovered by Eochy, 163

Daughter of Etain, 163;

King Conary Mōr descended from, 164;

married Cormac, King of Ulster, 165;

put away owing to barrenness, 166;

cowherd of Eterskel cares for her one daughter, 166

Et´ar.

Mother of Etain, 157

King of Ireland, whose cowherd cares for Messbuachalla, 166;

on his death he is succeeded by Conary Mōr, 167-169

Prince of Danaans of Connacht, father of Caer, 122

Ethlinn, or Ethnea.

Daughter of Balor, 110;

gives her love to Kian, 111;

gives birth to three sons, 111;

one son, Lugh, 112, 182;

belongs to Finn's ancestry, 255

Ethné.

The tale of, 142-145

Celts conquer Northern Italy from, 21

Seeds of freedom and culture in, kept alive by Celtica, 22;

diffusion of Celtic power in Mid-, 26;

Celtic place-names in, 27;

what it owes to Celts, 49;

western lands of, dolmens found in, 53

Son of Eurosswyd and Penardun, 366;

mutilates horses of Matholwch, 367;

atonement made by Bran for his outrage, 367, 368;

slays the warriors hidden in the meal-bags, 370;

dies in the magic cauldron, 371

Father of Peredur, 401

Farmer who befriends Fionuala and her brothers, 141

See Caliburn, 338, and note, p. 224

Romans elect as military tribunes, 25

Treachery of three sons of, against Celts, 25

The giant, King of Ulster, 180;

Nessa, wife of, 180;

father of Conor, 180;

succeeded at death by his half-brother, Fergus, 180

Woman who nurtured many of the Fianna, 262

Equivalent, Sidhe (shee). The tumulus at New Grange (Ireland) regarded as dwelling-place of, 69;

the Coulin overheard from, 119;

Conary Mōr lured by, into breaking his geise, 170;

seal all sources of water against mac Cecht, 175, 176;

Fergus mac Leda and, 246-249;

Conan mac Morna and, 259, 260;

Keelta and the, 266;

Gwyn ap Nudd, King of Welsh (Tylwyth Teg), 353

Land of the Dead, 96;

Cleena swept back to, by a wave, 127;

Connla's Well in, 129;

war carried on against, by Eochy, who at last recovers his wife, Etain, 163;

Cuchulain in, 225-228;

Laeg's visit to, 226;

Fergus mac Leda and, 246-249;

tales of the Fianna concerned with, 252;

Oisīn's journey to, 272;

the rescue of, by Finn and the Fianna, 294, 295;

rescue of, by Pwyll, 357

Fal´ias, The City of (see Dana), 105, 106

The Pearl of Beauty, wife of Mananan;

sets her love on Cuchulain, 226;

returns to her home with Mananan, 227

The Land of the Wee Folk, 246;

Iubdan, King of, 246

Prophetess from Fairy Mound of Croghan, questioned by Maev, 205, 206;

her vision of Cuchulain, 206

Feet Symbol, The Two. 77

Son of Dall, father of Deirdre, 196, 197;

his feast to Conor and Red Branch heroes, 196, 197

The kingdom of, over which Scoriath is king;

Maon taken to, 153

The bard of Curoi, 229;

leaps with Blanid to death, 229

Duel between Cuchulain and, referred to, 121;

son of the Firbolg, Daman, friend of Cuchulain, 187, 188;

rallies to Maev's foray against Ulster, 204;

consents to Maev's entreaty that he should meet and fight his friend Cuchulain, 216;

the struggle, 217-221;

Cuchulain slays, 220;

buried by Maev, 221

Nemedian chief who slays Conann, 102

Fergus the Great.

Son of Erc;

stone of Scone used for crowning, 105;

ancestor of British Royal Family, 105

Fergus mac Leda.

The Wee Folk and, 246-249;

visited by Eisirt, King of Wee Folk's bard, 247;

visited by Iubdan, King of Wee Folk, 247-249;

the blemish of Fergus, 249

Fergus mac Roy.

Son of Roy, Fachtna's half-brother;

succeeds to kingship of Ulster, 180;

loves Nessa, 180;

sent to invite return of Naisi and Deirdre to Ireland, 198-200;

the rebellion of, 201-251;

Maev and, 202;

compact with Cuchulain, 211;

reputed author of the “Tain,” 234;

slain by Ailell, 245

Rescued from enchanted cave by Goll, 278

Ferguson, Sir Samuel.

Quoted, 46, 234-238;

his description of King Fergus mac Leda's death, 249-251

Welsh name of Vergil, 413

Fiacha (fee´ach-a).

Son of Firaba;

cuts off eight-and-twenty hands of the Clan Calatin, 216;

gives spear to Finn, 258

Fiachra (fee´ach-ra).

One of the Children of Lir, 142

Fial (fee´al).

Sister of Emer, 186

Fianna (fee´anna) of Erin, The.

Explanation of this Order, 252;

Clan Bascna and Clan Morna, clans comprising the, 252;

Goll, captain of the, 257;

Finn made captain of the, 258;

tests of, 264, 265;

tales of the, told by Keelta, 283;

attempt in vain to throw the wether, 291, 292;

the chase of the Hard Gilly and, 292-295;

rescue of Fairyland by, 294, 295;

tribute refused by Cairbry, 305;

almost all the, slain in battle of Gowra, 306