[I] See Móen.
[I] “Labra Swift Hand on the Sword.” Ruler of Magh Mell and husband of Lí Ban, whom he sent to Cúchulainn with a promise to send the goddess Fand to him in exchange for one day’s fighting against three champions whom he could not overcome himself.
[I] Pilot of Cesair’s ship on its voyage to Ireland. When they landed, he argued about the fairness of the division of the country by Cesair and went off to form his own kingdom where he died “of an excess of women.”
[I] Sometimes Loeg. A son of Ríangabur, he was charioteer to Cúchulainn. His brother Id was charioteer to Conall Cearnach. He accompanied Cúchulainn on many of his adventures, and during the champion’s last combat at the Pillar Stone he threw himself in front of Cúchulainn and caught the spear cast by Laoghaire.
[I] Leinster. Anciently called Galian, there are two stories of how it was renamed. The first is that it took its name from Liath, son of Laigne Lethan-glas, a Nemedian; secondly, that it was named the province of “spearmen,” after the Gauls who accompanied Móen to Ireland to help him overthrow his evil uncle Cobhthach. The termination ster added to Laighin was made at the time of the Norse settlement.
[I] Son of a Connacht chieftain who was asked to capture the four singing swans as a bridal present by Deoca of Munster. These swans were, in fact, the children of Lir.
[I] There were several persons of this name in Irish mythology; perhaps the most famous was Laoghaire Mac Crimthann of Connacht, who assisted Fiachna Mac Retach regain his wife and daughter, who were abducted by Goll of Magh Mell. He slew Goll and married Fiachna’s daughter, Der Gréine.
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