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2. King of Ireland; reference to appearance of Midir the Proud to, on the Hill of Tara, 124; High King of Ireland, wooes and marries Etain, 157, 158; Midir appears to, and challenges to play chess, 161, 162
EPHORUS. Celts and, 17, 36
ERC. King of Ireland, Cuchulains foe, 228-233; mortally wounds the Grey of Macha, 232
EREMON. First Milesian king of all Ireland, 143, 144, 148
ERI. Mother of King Bres, 107-108; reveals father of Bres as Elatha, 108
ERINN (ERIN). See Eriu, 132; reference to High-Kingship of, 152
ERIU. Wife of Danaan king MacGren, 132; dative form, Erinn, poetic name applied to Ireland, 132
ERRIS BAY. The Children of Lir at, 141, 142
ETAIN.
Second bride of Midir the Proud, 156; transformed by Fuamnach into a b.u.t.terfly, 156; driven by a magic tempest into the fairy palace of Angus, 156; again the magic tempest drives her forth, 156; swallowed by Etar, and reappears as a mortal child, 156, 157; visited by Eochy, the High King, who wooes and makes her his wife, 157, 158; the desperate love of Ailill for, 158-160; Midir the Proud comes to claim, as his Danaan wife, 160-163; recovered by Eochy, 163
ETAIN OIG.
Daughter of Etain, 163; King Conary Mor descended from, 164; married Cormac, King of Ulster, 165; put away owing to barrenness, 166; cowherd of Eterskel cares for her one daughter, 166
ETAR.
Mother of Etain, 157
ETERSKEL.
King of Ireland, whose cowherd cares for Messbuachalla, 166; on his death he is succeeded by Conary Mor, 167-169
ETHAL ANUBAL.
Prince of Danaans of Connacht, father of Caer, 122
ETHLINN, or ETHNEA.
Daughter of Balor, 110; gives her love to Kian, 111; gives birth to three sons, 111; one son, Lugh, 112, 182; belongs to Finns ancestry, 255
ETHN.
The tale of, 142-145
ETRUSCANS.
Celts conquer Northern Italy from, 21
EUROPE.
Seeds of freedom and culture in, kept alive by Celtica, 22; diffusion of Celtic power in Mid-, 26; Celtic place-names in, 27; what it owes to Celts, 49; western lands of, dolmens found in, 53
EVNISSYEN.
Son of Eurosswyd and Penardun, 366; mutilates horses of Matholwch, 367; atonement made by Bran for his outrage, 367, 368; slays the warriors hidden in the meal-bags, 370; dies in the magic cauldron, 371
EVRAWC.
Father of Peredur, 401
EVRIC.
Farmer who befriends Fionuala and her brothers, 141
EXCALIBUR.
See Caliburn, 338, and _note_, p. 224
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FABII.
Romans elect as military tribunes, 25
FABIUS AMBUSTUS.
Treachery of three sons of, against Celts, 25
FACHTNA.
The giant, King of Ulster, 180; Nessa, wife of, 180; father of Conor, 180; succeeded at death by his half-brother, Fergus, 180
FAIR MANE.
Woman who nurtured many of the Fianna, 262
FAIRY FOLK.
Equivalent, _Sidhe_ (shee). The tumulus at New Grange (Ireland) regarded as dwelling-place of, 69; the _Coulin_ overheard from, 119; Conary Mor lured by, into breaking his _geise_, 170; seal all sources of water against mac Cecht, 175, 176; Fergus mac Leda and, 246-249; Conan mac Morna and, 259, 260; Keelta and the, 266; Gwyn ap Nudd, King of Welsh (_Tylwyth Teg_), 353
FAIRYLAND.
Land of the Dead, 96; Cleena swept back to, by a wave, 127; Connlas Well in, 129; war carried on against, by Eochy, who at last recovers his wife, Etain, 163; Cuchulain in, 225-228; Laegs visit to, 226; Fergus mac Leda and, 246-249; tales of the Fianna concerned with, 252; Oisins journey to, 272; the rescue of, by Finn and the Fianna, 294, 295; rescue of, by Pwyll, 357
FALIAS, THE CITY OF (see Dana), 105, 106
FAND.
The Pearl of Beauty, wife of Mananan; sets her love on Cuchulain, 226; returns to her home with Mananan, 227
FAYLINN.
The Land of the Wee Folk, 246; Iubdan, King of, 246
FEDELMA.
Prophetess from Fairy Mound of Croghan, questioned by Maev, 205, 206; her vision of Cuchulain, 206
FEET SYMBOL, THE TWO. 77
FELIM.
Son of Dall, father of Deirdre, 196, 197; his feast to Conor and Red Branch heroes, 196, 197
FERAMORC.
The kingdom of, over which Scoriath is king; Maon taken to, 153
FERCARTNA.
The bard of Curoi, 229; leaps with Blanid to death, 229
FERDIA.
Duel between Cuchulain and, referred to, 121; son of the Firbolg, Daman, friend of Cuchulain, 187, 188; rallies to Maevs foray against Ulster, 204; consents to Maevs entreaty that he should meet and fight his friend Cuchulain, 216; the struggle, 217-221; Cuchulain slays, 220; buried by Maev, 221
