the “brain ball” be extracted. After seven years Conchobhar loses his temper and the “brain ball” splits and kills him.

Condatis

Gaulish god of confluence.

Condwiramur

[W] A maiden who in some versions of Peredur, Perceval, or Parzival and the Grail marries him and bears his son Lohenergrain.

Conlaí

[I] A son of Cúchulainn by Aoife of the Land of Shadows. Cúchulainn, not recognising him, slays him.

Conn

[I] While there are several characters of this name, including a son of Lir, it is Conn of the Hundred Battles, the High King, who usually comes to mind. Associated with him are tales concerning the appearance of Lugh, who foretells his destiny, and of a beautiful goddess who represents sovranty.

Connachta

[I] The province of Connacht, an ancient kingdom, also known as the kingdom of Cruchain. It is often in rivalry with Ulster, especially during the Táin War. Medb is said to have ruled there for eighty-eight years.

Coraniaid

[W] From corr, “dwarf.” A group of small beings who wrought a plague in Britain in the tale “Lludd and Llefelys.” According to the tale “so great was their knowledge that there was no discourse over the face of the island, however low it might be spoken, that they did not know about if the wind met it.” Their plague was but one of three that befell Britain. The second was a terrible scream raised by a dragon in contest with a foreign dragon on Beltaine that left all animals, trees, and waters barren. The place of their contest was under the midpoint of Britain, according to Lludd (in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia), at the site of Oxford. The third plague was that of a giant who stole all the food prepared for the king’s court, except that consumed on the first night. The Coraniaid tale bears a similarity to the despoiling of the Irish Tuatha Dé Danaan by the Fomorii. The Coraniaid seem to be connected with the Corriganed, which have passed into Breton folklore as a group of invisible fairies who inhabit Brittany and are more generally known as the corrigan or korrigan. Professor J. Loth equated the corrigan with the Welsh Tylwyth Teg.

Cormac

[I] The most famous of the three warriors named Cormac in Irish myth is Cormac Mac Art, the High King, said to have ruled in the historical period a.d. 254–277. He was the patron of the