. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . man. Conall struckhim a slap, and drove his eye out on his cheek, helevelled him, and stripped his clothes off,] and he left one to tell a tale or wear out bad news, but the oneto whom he played the clipping of a bird and a fool,and though there should be ten tongues of a true wisebard in that mans head, it is telling his own exploits,and those of liis men that he would be ; the plightthat the youth who had come to the town had made ofthem.*] He asked him where was the king of , and the big man said that he
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . man. Conall struckhim a slap, and drove his eye out on his cheek, helevelled him, and stripped his clothes off,] and he left one to tell a tale or wear out bad news, but the oneto whom he played the clipping of a bird and a fool,and though there should be ten tongues of a true wisebard in that mans head, it is telling his own exploits,and those of liis men that he would be ; the plightthat the youth who had come to the town had made ofthem.*] He asked him where was the king of , and the big man said that he Avas in the hunt-ing hill with his coiu^t and his following (dlieadhachail)of men and beasts. Said Conall to him— I lay it on thee as disgrace iand contempt (taù agus tailceas) that thou must gostripped as thou art to tell to the king of Laidheannthat Conall Guilbeanach came, the son of the king of * This is common to many stones. Beaarradh eoin nsamadain, means shaving and clipping and stripping one side ofa man, like a bird with one wing From a Stone in the Cemetery of Inch Brayoc, in the Soutli Stones of Scotland, PI. Ixviii. THE STORY OF CON ALL GULBAN. 207 Eirinn, and that he has taken away his daughter Breastof Light* When the big man understood that he was to havehis life along with him, he ran in great leaps, and in arough trot, like a venomous snake, or a deadly dragon ;the would catch the swift March wind that was beforehim, but the swift March wind that was after himcould not catch him. The King of Laidlieann saw himcoming, and he said, Wliat evil has befallen the dunthis day, when the big man is coming thus stark nakedto us ? They sat down, and he came. Said the king, Tell us thy tale, big man? That which I have is the tale of hate, that therecame Conall Guilbeanach, son of the King of Eirinn,and slew all that there were of men to guard the dun,and it was not my own might or my own valour thatrescued me rather than the sorriest that wa
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