Athletics and manly sport . .The warriors lay on beds of rushes; and thehealers came with herbs and plants of healing, tocure their wounds. Of every herb and healingbalsam applied to the wounds of Cuchulaind, hesent part over the ford to Ferdiad, and he did like-w^ise with the food and drink brous^ht to him. Next morning they came again to the ford, andthis day Cuchulaind had the choice of weapons;and he chose the great l)road spear for thrust-inir, to be used from their chariots. All day the fight lasted, and at night the horseswere wearied and the charioteers they desisted,
Athletics and manly sport . .The warriors lay on beds of rushes; and thehealers came with herbs and plants of healing, tocure their wounds. Of every herb and healingbalsam applied to the wounds of Cuchulaind, hesent part over the ford to Ferdiad, and he did like-w^ise with the food and drink brous^ht to him. Next morning they came again to the ford, andthis day Cuchulaind had the choice of weapons;and he chose the great l)road spear for thrust-inir, to be used from their chariots. All day the fight lasted, and at night the horseswere wearied and the charioteers they desisted, and again embraced andparted for the night, their horses in the samefield and their servants at the same fire. This night Ferdiad sent to Cuchulaind part ofall the rich food and drink and healing herbs senthim by the men of Eiriu. Xext day they metagain, and Ferdiad chose heavy swords for theweapons. We are nearer to the end of the fight,said Cuchulaind, than the thro wins; of the first 230 ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT,. No. 40. A^XIE^T BRONZE SHIELD.* * A very beautiful bronze shield, found in a bog forming apeninsula or island in Lough Gurr, in the county of Royal Irish Academy having purchased this beautifulshield from M. Lenihan, Esq., of Limerick, it is now in thenational museum. It is a flat disc two feet three and three-quarter inches in diameter. It has six concentric rings formedby about two hundred small hollow bosses about an inch indiameter; and in the centre a large somewhat flattened boss,six inches internal diameter, called by the French OmblUrcV Umbo, and by the Germans the ScMldnabel. The rim is aninch and three-quarters in width. The handle is fastened HEROIC COMBAT IN ANCIENT IRELAND. 231
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