[181]. Pronounced Dara.
[182]. A poetical name for Ireland.
[183]. Translated by O’Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Lecture IX, p. 192, 193.
[184]. Iliad, Book XX.
[185]. The story of Mider’s revenge and Conairé’s death is told in the romance Bruidhen Dá Derga, “The Destruction of Da Derga’s Fort”, translated by Dr. Whitley Stokes, Eugene O’Curry, and Professor Zimmer from the original text.
“There came
Tigernmas, the prince of Tara yonder,
On Hallowe’en with many hosts,
A cause of grief to them was the deed.