“May the fishes of the sea crowd in shoals to the land for our use! May the waves of the sea drive forth to the shore abundance of fish! May the salmon swim abundantly into our nets! May all kinds of fish come plentifully to us from the sea! May its flat-fishes also come in abundance! This poem I compose at the sea-shore that fishes may swim in shoals to our coast.” Then, gathering their forces, they marched on the people of the goddess Danu. Two battles were fought, the first in Glenn Faisi, a valley of the Slieve Mish Mountains, south of Tralee, and the second at Tailtiu, now called Telltown. In both, the gods were beaten. Their three kings were killed by the three surviving sons of Milé—Mac Cuill by Eber, Mac Cecht by Eremon, and Mac Greiné by the druid Amergin. Defeated and disheartened, they gave in, and, retiring beneath the earth, left the surface of the land to their conquerors. From this day begins the history of Ireland according to the annalists. Milé’s eldest son, Donn, having perished, the kingdom fell by right to the second, Eremon. But Eber, the third son, backed by his followers, insisted upon a partition, and Ireland was divided into two equal parts. At the end of a year, however, war broke out between the brothers; Eber was killed in battle, and Eremon took the sole rule. ----- Footnote 141: It may be noted that, according to Welsh legend, the ancestors of the Cymri came from Gwlâd yr Hâv, the “Land of Summer”, _i.e._ the Celtic Other World. Footnote 142: _De Bello Gallico_, Book VI, chap. XVIII. Footnote 143: De Jubainville: _Cycle Mythologique_, chap. X. Rhys: _Hibbert Lectures_—“The Gaulish Pantheon”. Footnote 144: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s _Historia Britonum_, Book I, chap. II. Footnote 145: Contained in the _Book of Leinster_ and other ancient manuscripts. Footnote 146: Now called the Kenmare River. Footnote 147: This poem and the three following ones, all attributed to Amergin, are said to be the oldest Irish literary records. Footnote 148: _Book of Taliesin_, poem VIII, in Skene’s Four Ancient Books of Wales, Vol. I, p. 276. Footnote 149: De Jubainville: _Cycle Mythologique_. See also the _Transactions of the Ossianic Society_, Vol. V. Footnote 150: Translated by Professor Owen Connellan in Vol. V of the _Transactions of the Ossianic Society_. Footnote 151: The original versions of this and the following charm are from De Jubainville: _Cycle Mythologique Irlandais_, the later from Professor Owen Connellan’s translations in Vol. V of the _Transactions of the Ossianic Society_. “Some of these poems”, explains the Professor, “have been glossed by writers or commentators of the Middle Ages, without which it would be almost impossible now for any Irish scholar to interpret them; and it is proper to remark that the translation accompanying them is more in accordance with this gloss than with the original text.”