Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ig man. Conall struckhim a slap, and drove his eye out on his cheek, helevelled him, and strÌ23j)ed his clothes off,] and he 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 his men that he would be ; the phghtthat 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 h
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . ig man. Conall struckhim a slap, and drove his eye out on his cheek, helevelled him, and strÌ23j)ed his clothes off,] and he 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 his men that he would be ; the phghtthat 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 was in the hunt-ing hill with his court and his following (dheadhachail)of men and beasts. Said Conall to him— I lay it on thee as disgraceand contempt (tair agus tailceas) that thou must gostripped as thou art to tell to the king of Laidlieannthat Conall Guilbeanach came, the son of the king of * This is common to many stories. Beaarradh eoin usamadain, 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 Suuth Esi-Sculptured 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 Ufe along with him, he ran in great leaps, and in arough trot, like a venomous snake, or a deadly dragon ;the woidd catch the swift March wind that was. beforehim, but the swift March wind that was after himcould not catch him. The King of Laidheann saw himcoming, and he said, What 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 was th
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