item: #1 of 8 id: 14391 author: None title: The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic date: None words: 43089 flesch: 90 summary: 'Cuchulainn Mac Sualtaim, sister's son to Conchobar,' said Cuchulainn; 'and avoid me,' said he. Then they begin to wrestle for a long time, and Mand overthrows Cuchulainn thrice, so that the charioteer urged him. keywords: ailill; arms; ath; attack; battle; beard; birds; black; blood; body; boys; broad; broke; brooch; brother; bull; camp; cantred; cast; cernach; champion; chariot; charioteer; cloak; combat; coming; company; conall; conchobar; connaught; cormac; cows; cualnge; cuchulainn; cuchulainn mac; curly; cut; dark; daughter; day; death; deeds; deer; diad; dog; dress; dubthach; dun; e.g.; east; easy; edge; emain; etarcomol; eye; eyes; face; fair; fall; father; feat; fedelm; feet; ferbaeth; fergus; fiacha; field; fierce; fifties; findabair; fitting; foray; ford; form; foster; fraech; friend; god; gold; good; great; grey; hair; half; hand; head; help; herd; hero; heroes; high; hill; hooded; horses; host; house; ireland; irish; javelin; king; lad; left; like; little; loch; loeg; long; lugaid; mac; macha; mag; maiden; man; mane; medb; meeting; men; middle; midi; morning; morrigan; morrow; mother; murthemne; nadcrantail; night; north; note; number; o fergus; people; pillar; place; plain; play; playing; point; provinces; purple; rage; red; rest; rhetoric; rochad; roth; round; set; shield; shirt; shoulders; silver; single; skin; sleep; slemon; sliab; sling; son; sons; spear; stone; story; stream; strife; strong; sualtaim; sword; tain; tent; text; thee; therewith; thought; throw; time; troop; true; tunic; turn; ulstermen; valour; version; warning; warrior; water; way; white; wild; withe; women; wood; wounds; ybl; yellow; yonder cache: 14391.txt plain text: 14391.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 14465 author: Gregory, Lady title: Gods and Fighting Men The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory date: None words: 173049 flesch: 84 summary: These gods are indeed more wise and beautiful than men; but men, when they are great men, are stronger than they are, for men are, as it were, the foaming tide-line of their sea. And it would be too long to tell, and it would tire the hearers, how many good men were killed on each side. keywords: able; account; advice; aedh; ailell; ailne; alban; alive; almhuin; anger; angus; answer; aodh; aoife; appearance; apple; armed; armies; armour; arms; army; ask; asking; attack; bade; balor; battalions; battle; beautiful; bed; beinn; berries; best; better; big; birds; birth; black; blood; blow; blue; boar; boat; bodb; bodies; body; boinne; bonds; book; boy; bran; branch; brave; break; breast; bres; bright; bring; broken; brothers; brown; brugh; burned; cael; caoilte; cascorach; cast; cause; cave; champions; chapter; chariot; chief; chief men; children; cian; clear; cloak; clothes; clouds; co.; cold; colour; comely; coming; company; comrades; conan; connacht; cormac; country; courage; court; cows; credhe; cries; crimson; cruachan; crying; cuchulain; cumhal; cup; curragh; cut; dagda; daire; danaan; dark; daughter; day; day finn; days; dead; dearg; death; deeds; deer; delay; delight; desire; destruction; diarmuid; diorraing; dog; dogs; donn; door; drink; drinking; druid; duibhne; dun; early; earth; easy; edair; enchantments; end; enemies; enemy; eochaid; escape; etain; evening; eyes; face; fair; fall; far; farewell; father; fawn; fear; feast; feet; fergus; fianna; fierce; fighting; fill; fine; finn; fionnuala; fire; follow; fomor; food; foot; ford; foreigners; foster; free; friends; gael; game; gathering; girl; glad; glas; god; gods; going; gold; golden; goll; good; grandson; grania; grass; great; great men; greater; greece; green; grey; grief; ground; haired; hall; hand; harbour; hard; harm; harp; head; healing; heart; heavy; help; high; high king; hill; hold; holding; home; horns; horses; hounds; house; household; hunting; husband; iii; inver; ireland; irish; iron; island; jealousy; journey; killing; kind; king; know; knowledge; lad; laegaire; lake; leap; leave; left; leinster; leith; length; life; like; likely; lips; lir; little; living; loch; lochlann; long; long time; look; loss; love; lugaidh; lugh; lying; magh; making; man; manannan; master; men; messenger; middle; midhir; mind; mist; moment; morna; morning; morrow; mother; mountain; mouth; muadhan; munster; music; names; near; nearest; news; night; noise; north; nuada; oisin; osgar; outside; patrick; people; person; pig; pigs; pity; place; plain; playing; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; poem; poetry; poets; power; praise; promise; protection; quarter; queen; quiet; race; rath; ready; red; rest; ridge; rise; rising; river; rock; rod; rose; rough; ruadh; running; safe; sake; salmon; satisfaction; saying; sceolan; sea; second; service; set; shape; shelter; shield; shining; ship; shore; shouts; sickness; sides; sidhe; silver; singing; skins; sleep; slieve; smith; smooth; son; song; sons; sorrowful; sort; sound; spear; spells; spent; standing; stone; stories; story; strand; stranger; stream; strength; strong; sun; sweet; sword; tadg; talk; talking; teamhair; thing; thought; time; time finn; tired; track; treachery; tree; troop; trouble; true; tuatha; tuireann; turn; ulster; valley; vessel; voice; wall; want; watch; water; waves; way; weapons; welcome; west; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worse; year; yellow; young; young men cache: 14465.txt plain text: 14465.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 14749 author: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William) title: The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland date: None words: 72361 flesch: 79 summary: Said Finn to Conan, I have never seen thee do horseboy's service even to far better men than this gillie. But Fithel said, Nay, thou art too apt to blame the pleadings of other men; plead for thyself. keywords: age; ailill; allen; ancient; angus; aoife; arms; art; asal; assembly; atharna; atmosphere; bade; band; bardic; battle; bay; beautiful; beauty; ben; best; better; birds; birth; black; blood; blue; boar; boat; body; book; bore; boyne; branch; brian; bright; brothers; brown; burn; bóv; cause; celtic; certain; champion; chapter; chariot; chase; chief; children; christian; city; cloak; coast; cold; colour; coming; common; company; conall; conan; connacht; conor; cormac; country; court; cuchulain; cumhal; cycle; dacar; dana; danaans; dark; datho; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deeds; deep; deer; dermot; dogs; drink; drove; druid; dry; dwelling; dwelt; dún; early; earth; eisirt; elements; emania; end; english; eochy; ere; eric; erinn; escape; etain; ethne; evil; eyes; face; fairy; fairyland; fall; far; father; fear; feet; fenian; fergus; fianna; fians; field; fierce; fighting; finn; fionnuala; fire; flahari; folk; following; fomorians; food; forest; form; foster; free; friends; gaelic; garden; giant; gilla; glory; god; gods; gold; golden; goll; good; great; green; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; harp; hath; head; heart; help; heroes; heroic; high; high king; hill; history; home; honour; horn; horses; host; hounds; house; human; hunting; illustration; immortal; ireland; irish; island; iubdan; iuchar; joy; keelta; ket; kian; king; king cormac; kingdom; knowledge; known; lands; lay; leave; left; leinster; length; life; like; lir; literature; little; lives; living; loch; long; longer; lords; lost; love; lugh; luna; magic; maiden; man; mananan; manner; mare; meet; men; mesgedra; midir; mighty; mind; mist; mochaen; mochaovóg; modern; morna; morning; mother; mountain; music; nature; near; new; niam; night; noble; o king; ocean; oisín; order; original; oscar; pass; passion; patrick; pay; people; pig; place; play; poem; poetry; poets; point; present; queen; quest; race; ready; red; return; reward; rich; rise; river; rocks; round; royal; save; saying; sea; second; secret; service; set; shore; silver; singing; sister; skin; slain; socht; son; song; sons; sorrow; soul; spear; speech; steed; stone; stories; story; strange; strong; summer; sun; swans; sweet; swine; sword; tales; tall; tara; tell; tenderness; thee; thine; things; thither; thou; thought; thy; time; translation; treasures; tree; trouble; true; truth; turenn; ulster; ulstermen; vengeance; victory; war; warrior; water; waves; way; weapons; wee; west; western; white; wide; wife; wild; wilt; wind; wisdom; wise; women; wood; work; world; years; young; youth; æda cache: 14749.txt plain text: 14749.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 38041 author: None title: Old Celtic Romances date: None words: 127600 flesch: 83 summary: They have overpowered and slain many great kings; for they have gifted arms that no warrior, however powerful, can withstand; and behold, I have come hither to tell you what manner of men these are, that you might be advised by me, and give them your hound-whelp in peace. Do not destroy the net, said Maildun; for what we see is the work of great men. keywords: able; academy; account; aed; ailna; alas; alive; allen; ancient; angus; animals; apples; armed; arms; army; avarta; bade; balor; banquet; battle; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beloved; ben; berries; best; better; big; birds; black; blood; blows; board; body; bonds; book; bove; boyne; branch; breast; brian; bright; bringing; broad; brothers; bruga; canoe; cast; cause; cave; celebrated; certain; certainty; champion; chapter; chariot; chase; chief; children; church; clann; clear; cleric; close; cold; combat; coming; command; companions; company; conan; concobar; connla; continued; cormac; council; counsel; country; course; crew; crystal; cumal; curragh; dacker; danger; dara; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deadly; dear; death; dedannans; deed; deep; deer; deirdre; delay; derg; dering; dermat; dermat o'dyna; desire; distance; dogs; doom; door; dost; dreadful; drew; drink; drinking; druidical; dryantore; dublin; dungeon; early; earth; end; enemy; eric; erin; escape; eva; evening; evil; eyes; face; fairy; fall; far; farewell; fate; fatha; father; fear; feast; feet; fena; fergus; ficna; fierce; fiery; fighting; fine; finn; finnaha; finola; fire; flesh; fly; foe; following; fomorians; food; footnotes; force; ford; foreigners; form; foster; foul; free; friends; friendship; fruit; fury; gaelic; game; gaul; gentle; gesa; giant; gilla; glad; glanlua; glen; god; golden; good; grania; grave; great; green; grey; grief; guard; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; hast; head; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; help; heroes; high; hill; history; hither; home; horn; horses; host; hounds; hour; house; household; husband; iii; ildana; innsa; ireland; irish; irla; island; isle; joy; kian; kind; king; knights; knowledge; known; kylta; lady; lake; large; leave; left; length; liban; life; like; lir; little; living; lochlann; long; long time; longer; looking; lord; lost; loud; love; lovely; luga; lying; mac; magic; maiden; maildun; man; mannanan; manner; matter; means; meet; meeting; men; midac; midkena; mighty; mind; modan; moment; morna; morning; mother; mountain; moyle; munster; music; naisi; names; narrow; near; need; news; night; noble; north; note; number; o king; o'dyna; ocean; oisin; old; open; order; original; oscar; page; palace; party; pass; pay; peace; people; pig; pillar; places; plain; play; pleasant; poem; poet; point; power; precious; present; princess; promise; pursuit; queen; quest; quicken; race; reach; ready; red; rest; resting; return; river; rock; rose; rough; round; royal; sad; salmon; saw; saying; sea; search; second; seeing; service; shape; sharp; shee; shield; ship; shore; shouts; silent; silver; single; sister; size; skin; slaughter; slay; sleep; slew; slieve; small; smooth; snow; soft; son; sons; sorrow; speaking; spear; speech; spell; spit; spoken; spot; standing; steed; stone; story; straight; straightway; strange; stream; strength; strong; sun; sure; swans; sweet; swift; sword; tales; tall; tara; tears; text; thee; thick; things; thou; thought; thy; tidings; time; tirnanoge; torrent; track; translation; treachery; trees; true; truth; turenn; usna; valiant; valour; vast; view; vii; voice; voyage; voyagers; wall; warrior; watch; watching; water; waves; way; weapons; weary; welcome; west; western; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; wings; wish; wizard; woe; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; wounded; wrath; year; yonder; young; youth cache: 38041.txt plain text: 38041.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 5678 author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 1 date: None words: 67162 flesch: 76 summary: It is she who was hurt in the land (?), it is she who strove to win the king, it is she as compared to whom men men speak of fair women, it is she, our Etain afterwards. A wish to connect the two cycles probably accounts for the connection of Lugaid Red-Stripes with Cuchulain, the introduction of Conor and Ailill into the story of Etain may be due to the same cause, and there is no need to suppose that the authors of our versions felt themselves bound by what other men had introduced into the tale of Conary. keywords: account; action; aed; aife; ailill; ancient; answer; antiquarian; armies; arms; army; art; authority; battle; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; best; better; birds; blood; boar; body; book; bore; breg; bright; broad; brooch; cases; cast; cathbad; cause; century; certain; champion; character; chariot; charioteer; chess; chief; child; children; claim; classical; colour; combat; common; compare; compiler; conall; conary; connaught; conor; course; courtship; croghan; cry; cuchulain; custom; daman; dare; date; datho; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; deeds; deirdre; depart; description; dialogue; didst; different; dost; doubtful; drink; druid; dun; dwell; early; earth; easy; egerton; eleventh; emer; end; english; eochaid; eogan; episode; etain; ethne; evil; exile; eyes; face; fair; fall; fame; fand; far; fear; feast; feats; ferdia; fergus; festival; fierce; fight; find; fire; foe; folk; following; food; ford; form; fremain; friend; fuamnach; gain; game; glenn; glorious; gold; golden; good; great; greater; green; grief; haired; half; hand; hard; hast; hath; head; heart; heavy; hero; heroes; heroic; high; hill; hold; home; honour; horses; hosts; hound; hour; house; husband; idea; introduction; ireland; irish; journey; joy; ket; king; knowledge; known; l.u; labraid; lady; laeg; lament; later; lay; leabhar; left; legend; leinster; leith; liban; life; like; line; literal; literary; literature; little; long; look; love; lugaid; mac; macha; maev; maiden; man; manannan; manner; mantle; manuscript; masain; matter; meaning; means; meet; men; metre; mider; mighty; mind; modern; morning; naisi; names; near; need; noble; note; number; o'curry; order; original; oxen; page; passages; past; people; pieces; place; plain; play; poem; point; pointed; possible; power; praise; present; price; professor; pronounced; prose; purple; queen; race; reason; red; reference; rendering; renown; rest; rhetoric; rise; romances; royal; ruddy; run; sake; saw; scathach; sea; second; sense; servant; set; shame; shield; short; sick; sickness; silver; similar; skill; sleep; slew; small; snow; son; song; sons; sorrow; spear; speech; stanza; state; steeds; stone; story; strachan; stream; strength; strife; strong; supernatural; sweet; swift; sword; tale; tara; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; threw; thrust; thurneysen; thy; time; tis; translation; tree; troops; true; tryst; turn; twas; uidhri; ulster; usnach; valour; verse; version; volume; war; warriors; wars; way; weak; weakness; weapons; welcome; west; white; wife; wild; wilt; windisch; woe; woman; words; work; world; wounds; wrath; wrought; year; yellow; young cache: 5678.txt plain text: 5678.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 5679 author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 2 date: None words: 36401 flesch: 83 summary: There is none of thy gems that can aid her, Said Ailill, nor aught thou canst give; There is one thing alone that shall save her; If the ring be restored, she shall live! Said Fraech, The food divide ye! Come, bring ye here the meat! keywords: abair; account; ailill; arms; army; art; bank; best; better; birth; black; boand; body; book; brass; bricriu; bright; bronze; canst; cattle; century; chariot; chase; chess; chief; children; clan; cloak; close; colour; comrades; conall; connaught; corp; counsel; country; court; cows; croghan; cruachan; cry; cualgne; cualnge; cuchulain; dartaid; daughter; day; days; death; deed; depart; description; donnan; drive; dubhtach; dun; ears; earth; egerton; end; eochaid; eocho; equal; ere; erin; evil; face; fair; fairies; father; fear; fergus; find; finnabar; flidais; folk; food; ford; form; fort; fraech; gate; gift; god; gold; golden; good; great; grey; haired; hand; hard; harp; hath; head; help; herd; heroes; high; hold; home; honour; horses; hosts; hounds; hour; house; ireland; irische; irish; journey; kine; king; king ailill; known; l.u; land; lay; leabhar; left; leinster; life; like; liss; literal; little; long; love; mac; maev; maidens; maine; man; mani; manuscript; matter; meaning; means; medb; men; mider; morgor; morning; morrow; mother; munster; music; near; need; news; night; north; number; ocus; older; original; page; passages; people; place; plain; play; poem; power; preludes; present; princes; pronounced; prose; purple; purse; queen; quest; raid; red; regamon; rendering; ride; ring; river; romances; round; salmon; sea; second; serpent; shall; shield; silver; sin; sleep; sons; south; spear; speech; spelt; spot; stake; stand; story; stream; style; supernatural; tain; tale; task; text; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; tis; translation; troop; true; truth; twas; uidhri; ulster; verse; version; vol; warriors; water; way; welcome; west; white; wife; wild; windisch; woman; word; y.b.l; yellow; yon; young; youths cache: 5679.txt plain text: 5679.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 5680 author: Leahy, Arthur Herbert title: Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Complete date: None words: 103532 flesch: 79 summary: It is she who was hurt in the land (?), it is she who strove to win the king, it is she as compared to whom men men speak of fair women, it is she, our Etain afterwards. As the hooves of the cows on thee trample, thou shalt test 'truth of men in the fight': And the proof thou shalt have shall be ample, for from thee thy head they shall smite! Said Cuchulain: Aside from thee springing, a stone for a cast will I take, And that stone at thee furiously slinging, thy right or thy left leg will break: keywords: account; action; aed; aife; ailill; alba; ancient; answer; antiquarian; appearance; armies; arms; army; art; authority; bank; battle; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; best; better; bid; birds; birth; black; blood; boar; body; book; bore; brass; breg; bricriu; bright; broad; bronze; brooch; bull; burg; canst; care; cases; castle; cathbad; cause; cease; century; cernach; certain; champion; character; chariot; charioteer; chess; chief; children; christian; claim; clan; classical; clear; cloak; close; colour; combat; coming; common; compare; compiler; conall; conary; connaught; conor; couch; counsel; country; course; courtship; cows; croghan; cruachan; cry; cualgne; cualnge; cuchulain; custom; cycle; daman; danger; dare; dark; dartaid; date; datho; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deed; deep; deirdre; depart; description; destruction; dialogue; didst; die; different; divide; donnan; dost; doubtful; drink; drive; druid; dubhtach; dun; dwell; early; ears; earth; easy; egerton; eleventh; emer; end; english; eochaid; eocho; eogan; episode; equal; etain; ethne; evil; example; exile; eyes; face; fair; fairies; fall; fame; fand; far; fashion; fate; father; fear; feast; feats; feet; ferdia; fergus; festival; field; fierce; fight; find; finnabar; fire; flidais; fly; foe; foes; folk; following; food; ford; form; fort; foster; fought; fraech; fremain; friend; fuamnach; gain; game; garments; gay; general; gifts; glenn; glorious; glory; god; gold; golden; good; goodly; grant; great; greater; green; grey; grief; ground; guard; hail; haired; half; hand; hard; harp; hast; hath; head; healing; heart; heavy; help; heralds; herd; hero; heroes; heroic; high; hill; hold; home; honour; horns; horses; hosts; hound; hour; house; husband; idea; introduction; ireland; irische; irish; journey; joy; ket; kine; king; king ailill; knowledge; known; l.l; l.u; labraid; lady; laeg; lament; land; late; lay; leabhar; leave; lecan; left; legend; leinster; leith; length; liban; life; like; line; lips; liss; literal; literary; literature; little; long; look; lord; lost; love; lovely; lugaid; mac; macha; maev; maidens; maine; man; manannan; mani; manner; mantle; manuscript; masain; mata; match; matter; meaning; means; medb; meet; meeting; men; message; metre; meyer; middle; mider; mighty; milk; mind; miss; modern; morning; morrow; mother; munster; music; naisi; names; near; need; news; noble; north; note; number; o'curry; ocus; order; original; oxen; page; passages; past; people; period; pieces; place; plain; play; poem; point; pointed; possible; power; praise; present; price; princes; professor; pronounced; prose; purple; purpose; queen; quest; race; reason; red; reference; regamon; rendering; renown; rest; return; rhetoric; ride; ring; rise; river; romances; royal; run; salmon; saw; scathach; sea; second; sense; servant; set; shall; shame; shield; short; shoulders; sick; sickness; silver; similar; sin; skill; skin; slaughter; slay; sleep; slew; snow; son; song; sons; soul; spear; special; speech; spelt; splendid; splendour; spouse; sprang; stake; stand; stanza; stately; steeds; stokes; stone; stories; story; strachan; stream; strength; strife; strong; style; supernatural; sweet; swift; swords; tale; tara; task; test; text; thee; thereon; thine; things; thither; thou; thou art; thought; threw; thrust; thurneysen; thy; time; tis; translation; tree; troops; true; truth; tryst; turn; twas; uidhri; ulster; ulstermen; unknown; usnach; valiant; valour; verse; version; victorious; victory; view; volume; war; warriors; wars; water; way; weak; weapons; welcome; west; white; wife; wild; wilt; windisch; woe; woman; word; work; wounds; wrath; wrought; y.b.l; year; yellow; yon; young; youth cache: 5680.txt plain text: 5680.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 8109 author: O'Grady, Standish title: Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. date: None words: 20502 flesch: 58 summary: If I have done my task well, the reader will have been supplied, without any intensity of application on his part--a condition of the public mind upon which no historian of this country should count--with some knowledge of ancient Irish history, and with an interest in the subject which may lead him to peruse for himself that ancient literature, and to read works of a more strictly scientific nature upon the subject than those which I have yet written. Unlike those who write on other subjects, the author of a work on Irish history has to labour simultaneously at a two-fold task--he has to create the interest to which he intends to address himself. keywords: account; achievements; age; ancestors; ancient; ancient literature; annals; antique; authority; b.c; ballads; bardic; bardic literature; bards; barrow; battle; bolgs; books; boyne; branch; cairn; case; centuries; century; certain; character; chief; children; christian; chronicles; civilisation; clear; composition; connection; country; course; cuculain; cycle; dagda; danan; date; day; death; development; different; divine; early; english; epic; ethnic; europe; events; extent; eyes; fact; family; fancy; far; father; feeling; fianna; fir; fomoroh; form; general; gods; great; greater; greek; hand; heroes; heroic; historical; histories; history; huge; huidhré; imagination; immense; instance; interest; invisible; ireland; irish; irish gods; irish history; irish literature; island; king; leabhar; letters; life; light; like; literary; literature; long; love; mac; macpherson; man; marvellous; mass; mediaeval; men; mere; metrical; mind; mound; mythological; mythology; names; national; nations; nature; nemedh; new; noble; note; ogham; old; opinion; order; original; oscar; ossian; ossianic; page; partholan; past; pedigrees; people; period; place; plain; poem; poetic; poetry; point; pre; present; preservation; prior; prose; public; raths; reader; record; regard; remains; removed; representation; rude; sacred; scientific; sea; second; single; small; society; son; song; sons; spirit; state; stone; study; subject; tales; tara; temple; things; thought; time; tomb; true; tuátha; ultonian; vol; warriors; work; world; years cache: 8109.txt plain text: 8109.txt