Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Part 39

2. King of Ireland; reference to appearance of Midir the Proud to, on the Hill of Tara, 124; High King of Ireland, wooes and marries Etain, 157, 158; Midir appears to, and challenges to play chess, 161, 162

EPHORUS. Celts and, 17, 36

ERC. King of Ireland, Cuchulains foe, 228-233; mortally wounds the Grey of Macha, 232

EREMON. 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-Kings.h.i.+p of, 152

ERIU. Wife of Danaan king MacGren, 132; dative form, Erinn, poetic name applied to Ireland, 132

ERRIS BAY. The Children of Lir at, 141, 142

ETAIN.

Second bride of Midir the Proud, 156; transformed by Fuamnach into a b.u.t.terfly, 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

ETAIN OIG.

Daughter of Etain, 163; King Conary Mor descended from, 164; married Cormac, King of Ulster, 165; put away owing to barrenness, 166; cowherd of Eterskel cares for her one daughter, 166

ETAR.

Mother of Etain, 157

ETERSKEL.

King of Ireland, whose cowherd cares for Messbuachalla, 166; on his death he is succeeded by Conary Mor, 167-169

ETHAL ANUBAL.

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 Finns ancestry, 255

ETHN.

The tale of, 142-145

ETRUSCANS.

Celts conquer Northern Italy from, 21

EUROPE.

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

EVNISSYEN.

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

EVRAWC.

Father of Peredur, 401

EVRIC.

Farmer who befriends Fionuala and her brothers, 141

EXCALIBUR.

See Caliburn, 338, and _note_, p. 224

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FABII.

Romans elect as military tribunes, 25

FABIUS AMBUSTUS.

Treachery of three sons of, against Celts, 25

FACHTNA.

The giant, King of Ulster, 180; Nessa, wife of, 180; father of Conor, 180; succeeded at death by his half-brother, Fergus, 180

FAIR MANE.

Woman who nurtured many of the Fianna, 262

FAIRY FOLK.

Equivalent, _Sidhe_ (shee). The tumulus at New Grange (Ireland) regarded as dwelling-place of, 69; the _Coulin_ overheard from, 119; Conary Mor 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

FAIRYLAND.

Land of the Dead, 96; Cleena swept back to, by a wave, 127; Connlas Well in, 129; war carried on against, by Eochy, who at last recovers his wife, Etain, 163; Cuchulain in, 225-228; Laegs visit to, 226; Fergus mac Leda and, 246-249; tales of the Fianna concerned with, 252; Oisins journey to, 272; the rescue of, by Finn and the Fianna, 294, 295; rescue of, by Pwyll, 357

FALIAS, THE CITY OF (see Dana), 105, 106

FAND.

The Pearl of Beauty, wife of Mananan; sets her love on Cuchulain, 226; returns to her home with Mananan, 227

FAYLINN.

The Land of the Wee Folk, 246; Iubdan, King of, 246

FEDELMA.

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

FEET SYMBOL, THE TWO. 77

FELIM.

Son of Dall, father of Deirdre, 196, 197; his feast to Conor and Red Branch heroes, 196, 197

FERAMORC.

The kingdom of, over which Scoriath is king; Maon taken to, 153

FERCARTNA.

The bard of Curoi, 229; leaps with Blanid to death, 229

FERDIA.

Duel between Cuchulain and, referred to, 121; son of the Firbolg, Daman, friend of Cuchulain, 187, 188; rallies to Maevs foray against Ulster, 204; consents to Maevs entreaty that he should meet and fight his friend Cuchulain, 216; the struggle, 217-221; Cuchulain slays, 220; buried by Maev, 221