...slackening his pace he could with his nail extract a thorn from his foot he was not taken into the Fian-ship. But if he performed all this he was of Finn's people." (See " Silva Gadelica," p. loo of English vol.) people than those of the Red Branch. They were most...

...hit, brow, and pass under one level with his knee, and unless he could, without slackening his pace, extract a thorn from his foot, he was not taken into Fianship." In accordance with this view of the Fiann, we find our Highland bards referring to their era as something...

...his brow, and pass under one level with his knee, and unless he could, without slackening his pace, extract a thorn from his foot, he was not taken into Fianship." In accordance with this view of the Fiann, we find our Highland bards referring to their era as something...

...11. The following are the conditions of entrance into the band of Irish heroes known as the Fiana1. Of all these again not a man was taken until he were...if he performed all this he was of Finn's people. 6. The twigs in the wall. «) The trick. There is a striking instance of the dexterity of Tristan in...

...subjected to tests that were worthy of a King of the Wood. In The Enumeration of Finn's People^ we read : ' No man was taken till in the ground a large hole had...kings of the provinces, and the king of Ireland ; he bring himself the seventh, conjointly with the king of all Ireland. ' I would suggest that the stringent...