X.

_The Wild People of the Glen._

"And then he put on his helmet of battle and of combat and of

fighting, from every recess and from every angle of which issued the

shout as it were of an hundred warriors; because it was alike that

woman of the valley (_de bananaig_), and hobgoblins (_bacanaig_), _and

wild people of the glen (geinti glindi)_, and demons of the air

(_demna acoir_), shouted in front of it, and in rear of it, and over

it, and around it, wherever he went, at the spurting of blood, and of

heroes upon it."

Description of Cuchulain's helmet in the story of The _Tain bo

Chuailgne_.--"O'Curry's Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish,"

Vol. II., p. 301.

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