Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ^ when the Fhinn were on Oirills mound,A watcliing the Eireann all around,There was seen coming on the tops of the wave,The crooked, clamouring, shivering brave. The name of that undaunted wraithWas the bald russet-yellow Muilearteach ;From Lochlanns bounds, coming on in a dav to cover Eirinn. A MHUILEARTACH BHUIDHE. 123. From a stone coffin at Govan.—Sculptured Stones of Scotland, PL cxxxiv. A MHUILEAETACH BHUIDHE * 1Latha dh an Fliinn, air Tulach Oirill/A coimhead na h-Eireann mu timcliillChunnacas a tigliinn, air barraibh th
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ^ when the Fhinn were on Oirills mound,A watcliing the Eireann all around,There was seen coming on the tops of the wave,The crooked, clamouring, shivering brave. The name of that undaunted wraithWas the bald russet-yellow Muilearteach ;From Lochlanns bounds, coming on in a dav to cover Eirinn. A MHUILEARTACH BHUIDHE. 123. From a stone coffin at Govan.—Sculptured Stones of Scotland, PL cxxxiv. A MHUILEAETACH BHUIDHE * 1Latha dh an Fliinn, air Tulach Oirill/A coimhead na h-Eireann mu timcliillChunnacas a tigliinn, air barraibh thonn,An eàrra, gliàireacli, chraobhaidli, chrom.^ 2Se b ainm dh an fuatb nacli bu thimA Mhuileartacli mhaol, ruadli-bhiiidhe,O chrioclian Lochlann tigbinn air sailGu h-Eirinn a chomlidach a dh aon la.* In Gillies, this character is a man, and called a Mhuireart-each ; perhaps muir iarteach,—sea western. I 2 4 WEST HIGHLAND TALES. 3 A rusted glaive was upon her belt, Will give them a grim darkling pelt; When the time of the fury of battle shall come. There were two slender spears of battle,Upon the other side of the carlin ;Her face was blue-black, of the lustre of coal,And her bone tufted tooth was like rusted bone. 5 In her head was one deep pool-like eye,Swifter than a star in a winter sky;Upon her head gnarled the clawed old wood of the aspen root. Her hear
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