Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . ! / H QM; ? ^ -•^•^?^. Midir and Etain 162 WAR WITH FAIRYLAND departed in long, steady flight towards the fairy moun-tain of Slievenamon. And thus Queen Etain rejoinedher kindred. War with Fairyland Eochy, however, would not accept defeat, and nowensues what I think is the earliest recorded war withFairyland since the first dispossession of the searching Ireland for his wife in vain, he sum-moned to his aid the Druid Dalan. Dalan tried for ayear by every means in his power to find out where shewas. At last he made what seems to have been anop
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . ! / H QM; ? ^ -•^•^?^. Midir and Etain 162 WAR WITH FAIRYLAND departed in long, steady flight towards the fairy moun-tain of Slievenamon. And thus Queen Etain rejoinedher kindred. War with Fairyland Eochy, however, would not accept defeat, and nowensues what I think is the earliest recorded war withFairyland since the first dispossession of the searching Ireland for his wife in vain, he sum-moned to his aid the Druid Dalan. Dalan tried for ayear by every means in his power to find out where shewas. At last he made what seems to have been anoperation of wizardry of special strength—he madethree wands of yew, and upon the wands he wrote anogham ; and by the keys of wisdom that he had, andby the ogham, it was revealed to him that Etain was inthe fairy mound of Bri-Leith, and that Midir had borneher thither. Eochv then assembled his forces to storm anddestroy the fairy mound in which was the palace otMidir. It is said that he was nine years digging upone mound after another, while Midir and his
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