Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . lock hard by, and itgrew there, and Conan wore it till his death. Though Conan was a coward and rarely adventuredhimself in battle with the Fianna, it is told that once agood man fell by his hand. This was on the day ofthe great battle with the pirate horde on the Hill ofSlaughter in Kerry.^ For Liagan, one of the invaders,stood out before the hosts and challenged the bravestof the Fians to single combat, and the Fians in mockerythrust Conan forth to the fight. When he appearedLiagan laughed, for he had more strength than wit, andhe said : Silly is thy vis
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . lock hard by, and itgrew there, and Conan wore it till his death. Though Conan was a coward and rarely adventuredhimself in battle with the Fianna, it is told that once agood man fell by his hand. This was on the day ofthe great battle with the pirate horde on the Hill ofSlaughter in Kerry.^ For Liagan, one of the invaders,stood out before the hosts and challenged the bravestof the Fians to single combat, and the Fians in mockerythrust Conan forth to the fight. When he appearedLiagan laughed, for he had more strength than wit, andhe said : Silly is thy visit, thou bald old man.** Andas Conan still approached Liagan lifted his handfiercely, and Conan said : Truly thou art in moreperil from the man behind than from the man infront.** Liagan looked round; and in that instantConan swept off his head, and then threw his swordand ran for shelter to the ranks of the laughingFians. But Finn was very wroth because he had wonthe victory by a trick. ^ The hill still bears the name, Finn heard the notes of the magic harp 260 OSCAR Dermot ODyna And one of the chiefest of the friends of Finn wasDermot of the Love Spot. He was so fair and nobleto look on that no woman could refuse him love, andit was said that he never knew weariness, but his stepwas as light at the end of the longest day of battle orthe chase as it was at the beginning. Between himand Finn there was great love, until the day whenFinn, then an old man, was to wed Grania, daughterof Cormac the High King ; but Grania bound Dermotby the sacred ordinances of the Fian chivalry to flywith her on her wedding night, which thing, sorelyagainst his will, he did, and thereby got his Grania went back to Finn, and when the Fiannasaw her they laughed through all the camp in bittermockery, for they would not have given one of thedead mans fingers for twenty such as Grania. Keelta mac Ronan and Oisin Another of the chief men that Finn had was Keeltamac Ronan, who was
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