quenched as a torch that is spent--
For here shall I quench it, here, where my loved one lies,
A torch shall it be for him still through the darkness of death."

Fiona Macleod's Translation.

Then, at the bidding of Cuchulainn, the Ultonian, three graves were
dug for the brothers, but the grave of Naoise was made wider than the
others, and when he was placed in it, standing upright, with his head
placed on his shoulders, Deirdre stood by him and held him in her
white arms, and murmured to him of the love that was theirs and of
which not Death itself could rob them. And even as she spoke to him,
merciful Death took her, and together they were buried. At that same
hour a terrible cry was heard: "_The Red Branch perisheth! Uladh
passeth! Uladh passeth!_" and when he had so spoken, the soul of
Cathbad the Druid passed away.

To the land of the Ultonians there came on the morrow a mighty host,
and the Red Branch was wiped out for ever. Emain Macha was cast into
ruins, and Conor died in a madness of sorrow.

And still, in that land of Erin where she died, still in the lonely
cleuchs and glens, and up the mist-hung mountain sides of Loch Etive,
where she knew her truest happiness, we can sometimes almost hear the
wind sighing the lament: "Deirdre the beautiful is dead ... is dead!"

"I hear a voice crying, crying, crying: is it the wind
I hear, crying its old weary cry time out of mind?

_The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps:_
_Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps._"

Fiona Macleod.

FOOTNOTES:

[14] Now Dunskaith.

[15] Fairies.

[16] The Hill of Howth, at Dublin Bay.

[17] Dale of the Waterfall: now Dalness.

[18] Inistrynich.

[19] Dun Sween.

[20] Glen Lug.

[21] At the head of Holy Loch, Argyllshire.

[22] Glen Etive.

[23] Glenorchy.

[24] Glendaruel.

INDEX

Acheron, 37

Achilles, 71

Acrisius, 105, 121, 122, 123

Adam, 220

Adonis, 178, 192, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208

Advocates' Library, 306

Aed, 290, 299, 300, 304, 305

AEgean Sea, 36, 90, 106, 121, 145, 146, 186

AEgean Islands, 172

AEolus, 144

AEsculapius, 88

AEsop, 169

Ainle, 313, 315, 316, 317, 322, 325, 329, 330, 331

Ainnle, 324

Aix, 287

Aix-la-Chapelle, 287

Ajax, 71

Alba, 295, 299, 307, 311, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 325, 327, 331

Alban, Oirir, 324

Alexander the Great, 135

Alpheus, 102