Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and peopleSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
After remaining in Greece two hundred and sixteen years, the followers
of Simon Breac, the first of the three leaders of the sons of Neimead,
return to Ireland in three tribes—the Firbolg, Fir Domnan, and Fir
Gaileoin, under five brothers, who divide Ireland into five provinces.
They are in their turn conquered by the Tuatha De Danan, the descendants
of the second tribe of the Nemedians, who, after remaining a long time
in the north of Europe, where they possessed four cities—Falias, Gorias,
Finias, and Murias—pass over into the north of Alban, where they remain
seven years in the same districts of Dobhar and Iardobhar, which had
been colonised by Briotan Maol, bringing with them from Falias the Lia
Fal, or celebrated Coronation Stone; from Gorias, the sword used by
their leader; from Finias, his spear; and from Murias, the mystic
caldron of the Dagda. After remaining seven years in Alban, they go to
Ireland and conquer the Firbolg in the great battle of Magh Tuireadh;
and the few Firbolg who escaped this battle fly to the Western Isles,
and occupy Arran, Isla, Rachrain, and other islands, where they remained
till they were driven out by the Cruithnigh or Picts, and returned to
Ireland, when they were received by Cairbre Niadhfher, king of Leinster
under the Milesian Scots. Then follows the legendary settlement of the
Scots under the three sons of Milesius, Heber, Heremon, and Ir, and
their cousin Lughadh, son of Ith, before whom the mythic race of the
Tuatha De Danan gave way. The transactions between them form one of the
most picturesque of these Irish legends, the details of which need not
be given here;[120] but the Tuatha De Danan yield the plains of Erin to
the Scots, retaining only the green mounds, known by the name of Sidh,
and then being made invisible by their enchantments, became the Fir
Sidhe, or Fairies, of Ireland.
[Sidenote: Pictish legends.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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