Gods and Fighting Men Part 51

THE PIGS OF ANGUS.-- _Proc. Ossianic Society_.

HUNT OF SLIEVE CUILINN.-- _Proc. Ossianic Society_.

OISIN'S CHILDREN.-- O'Curry; _Leabhar na Feinne_; Campbell's _Popular Tales of the Western Highlands_; Stokes, _Irische Texte_; Dean of Lismore; _Celtic Magazine_; _Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition_.

BIRTH OF DIARMUID.-- _Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grania_ (Society for Preservation of the Irish Language); Campbell's _Popular Tales_.

HOW DIARMUID GOT HIS LOVE-SPOT.-- Hyde, _Sgealuidhe Gaedhealach_.

DAUGHTER OF KING UNDER-WAVE.-- Campbell's _Popular Tales_.

THE HARD SERVANT.-- _Silva Gaedelica_.

HOUSE OF THE QUICKEN TREES.-- MSS. in Royal Irish Academy, and in Dr Hyde's possession.

DIARMUID AND GRANIA.-- Text Published by S. Hayes O'Grady, _Proc. Ossianic Society_, and re-edited by N. O'Duffey for Society for Preservation of the Irish Language; Kuno Meyer, _Revue Celtique_, and _Four Songs_; _Leabhar na Feinne_; Campbell's _Popular Tales_; _Kilkenny Arch. Journal_; _Folk Lore_, vol. vii., 1896; Dean of Lismore; Nutt, _Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition_.

CNOC-AN-AIR, ETC.-- _Proc. Ossianic Society_.

WEARING AWAY OF THE FIANNA.-- _Silva Gaedelica_; Dean of Lismore; _Leabhar na Feinne_; Campbell's _Popular Tales_; _Proc. Ossianic Society_; O'Curry; _Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition_; Stokes, _Irische Texte_.

THE END OF THE FIANNA.-- Hyde, _Sgealuidhe Gaedhealach_; _Proc. Ossianic Society_; _Silva Gaedelica_; Miss Brooke's _Reliques_; _Annals of the Four Masters_; _Celtic Magazine_.

OISIN AND PATRICK, AND OISIN'S LAMENTS.-- _Proc. Ossianic Society_; Dean of Lismore; _Kilkenny Arch, fournal_; Curtin's _Tales_.

I have taken Grania's sleepy song, and the description of Finn's s.h.i.+eld and of c.u.mhal's treasure-bag, and the fact of Finn's descent from Ethlinn, from _Duanaire Finn_, now being edited for the Irish Texts Society by Mr John MacNeill, the proofs of which I have been kindly allowed to see. And I have used sometimes parts of stories, or comments on them gathered directly from the people, who have kept these heroes so much in mind. The story of Caoilte coming to the help of the King of Ireland in a dark wood is the only one I have given without either a literary or a folk ancestry. It was heard or read by Mr Yeats, he cannot remember where, but he had, with it in his mind, written of "Caoilte's burning hair" in one of his poems.

I and my readers owe special thanks to those good workers in the discovery of Irish literature, Professor Kuno Meyer and Mr Whitley Stokes, translators of so many ma.n.u.scripts; and to my friend and kinsman Standish Hayes O'Grady, for what I have taken from that wonderful treasure-house, his _Silva Gaedelica_.