This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ..." the Island of Floods." They took the player, who was FER-FI--EOGHAN. 197 a little man, from the tree, and, disputing who should have him, they carried him to Oilioll to settle the dispute. Fer-Fi had three strings to his timpan, a small stringed instrument in Irish story, though it can undoubtedly only be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ..." the Island of Floods." They took the player, who was FER-FI--EOGHAN. 197 a little man, from the tree, and, disputing who should have him, they carried him to Oilioll to settle the dispute. Fer-Fi had three strings to his timpan, a small stringed instrument in Irish story, though it can undoubtedly only be derived from either the Greek or Latin for a timbrel or drum. When asked his name, he said Fer-fi, son of Eogabhal, --eo-gabhal, gobhal, " a fork," the tailor's " fork." The little man is a good timpanist, and demonstrates his knowledge by playing tunes which cause crying, laughing, and sleeping. He returns to his own place, leaving a bad feeling between Eoghan and Lugaidh. The dispute was not so much for the possession of the little man himself as for the wonderful yew-tree in which he was found; and his reason for causing the ill-feeling was that Oilioll had slain his father Eogabhal and his aunt Aine, and it was to have vengeance for this that the little man "raised up the phantom yew-tree at the falls of Caher-Ass." The tree was awarded to Eoghan, Eugene, the " well-born," and then it disappeared. The result of this quarrel was three battles, Ceann-abrat, Magh-mucruimhe, and Crinna.1 Abra is an "eyelash," plu. abrait; ceann abrat, eyelash head, as if all the hair left were the eyebrows and eyelashes. The battle of Magh-mucruimhe resulted in the death of Art and of the seven sons of Oilioll by the hands of Lugaidh, son of Mac Con, and his "foreigners," Beinne Bret--that is, Beinne the Briton--assisting Lugaidh. 1 O'Curry, Manners and Customs, vol. iii. p. 259. The third battle, Crinna, is undoubtedly connected with crinaim, " I disappear," as the yew-tree did, --crion in Scottish Gaelic means " little"; balach crion, "a little boy." The...
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