[I] The ancient blind seer of Clan Dedad who was consulted by Ailill and Medb about the prophecy connected with the debility of the men of Ulster.
[I] Anglicised as Gowra. The last great battle in which the Fianna took part and in which they were exterminated. Said to be fought on the site of Garristown, Co. Dublin, the battle is full of melancholy grandeur and a fitting end to the Fenian Cycle. The High King Cairbre, trying to curb the power of the Fianna following the death of Fionn Mac Cumhail, provokes the conflict. The hero, Oscar, commands the Fianna and slays Cairbre, but is himself mortally wounded. Fionn himself returns from the Other-world to mourn his grandson, while Oisín and Celta carry Oscar’s body from the field on a bier.
[I] Cúchulainn’s famous “belly spear,” which was given him by the female champion Scáthach, who taught him the martial arts. It made one wound when entering and opened into thirty barbs once in the body.
[I] See Goidel.
[I] A son of Manannán Mac Lir who had an affair with Bécuma, which caused her expulsion from Tír Tairnigiri, the Land of Promise.
[W] Originally Gwalchafed, “Falcon of Summer.” He became famous in the medieval versions of the Arthurian sagas as the only knight to find the Holy Grail. See Grail.
[W] Equivalent of Beltaine, Welsh spring festival on May 1.
The first Celtic state about which we have evidence of how it was governed. Galatia, an area in central Turkey, was settled by the Celts in ca. 275 b.c. There were three main tribal groups, the Tolistoboii, the Tectosages, and the Trocmi. The Tolistoboii settled
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