THE FLIGHT OF THE CULDEES.
MIRCATH.
THE LAUGHTER OF SCATHACH THE QUEEN.
[14] The word “Seanachas” means either traditionary lore, or “telling of tales of the olden time”—and it is in this sense that it is used here.
THE SONG OF THE SWORD
THESE are of the Seanachas told me by Ian Cameron (“Ian Mòr”), before the flaming peats, at a hill-shealing, in a season when the premature snows found the bracken still golden and the ptarmigan with their autumn browns no more than flecked and mottled with gray.
He has himself now a quieter sleep than the sound of that falling snow, and it is three years since his face became as white and as cold.