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operations of the birds were witnessed by Maildun and his companions, who, in the course of their wanderings, had arrived at the Isle of the Mystic Lake. One o

bird has left the poison of his

and mixed it in his mouth, and in the end he swallowed a small quantity. He then came out perfectly

the old tale. The oldest copy of the voyage is in the book of "The Dun Cow" (about the year 1100). O'Curry says the voyage was

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are called crannogs, from crann, a tree, either because of the timber fra

with the land being canoes. Remains of these have been frequently found near the dw

heets of water. As providing good fishing grounds the entrance to or exit of a stream fr

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fine on the sons of Turenn, part of which was "the cooking-spit of the women of Fincara." For a quarter of a year Brian and his brothers sailed hither and thither over the wide ocean, landing on many sho

rs to wait his return. He leaped over the side of the ship, and sank at once out of sight. He walked abou

more. At last they were about to leave the place, when they saw the glitter of his crystal helmet deep down in the water

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it, its waters burst forth over the plain, drowning Ecca and nearly all his family. Liban, although swept away like the others, was not drowned. She lived for a whole year, with her lap-dog, in a chamber beneath the lake, and God protected her from the water. At the end of that time she was weary, and when she saw the speckled salmon swimming and playi

m some old authority into the Book of the Dun Cow, the oldest manuscript