A great raven, glossy black, and burnished in the sun rays.
To face p. 177.]
Darthool and the
Sons of Usna
The story I will tell you now, Peterkin, is more beautiful, though not so old.
In all the regions of the Gael throughout Scotland, and in every isle, from Arran and Islay in the south, to Iona in the west, and Tiree in mid-sea, and the Outer Hebrides, there is no story of the old far-off days so well known as that of Darthool.
She it is who in Ireland is called Deirthrê or Deirdrê; and in Ireland to this day there is not a cowherd who has not heard of Deirdrê.