Midhir

When their heroes are definitely gods we can accept almost any of their deeds, so we can delight in the earlier stories of "Gods and Fighting Men," the stories of the Tuatha de Danaan, Lugh and Angus, Midhir and Etain, Bran and

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

She was not well pleased to stop there when she heard that, and Midhir said to quiet her: "It is your own name will be put on this place from this out."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And the Men of Dea rose up and left Lugh and his nine comrades keeping him, and they went on to the battle; and Midhir was with them, and Bodb

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And that time Midhir came to them in the same way and gave them a horse to put their goods on, and he went on with them as far as Magh Dairbthenn.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

"It is not," said Midhir; "my own place is nearer to the rising of the sun."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And he and the two sons of Midhir went back then by the Lake of the Two

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

So Eochaid went there, and made an attack on the place, and he was for nine years besieging it, and Midhir was driving him away.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

The god Midhir sings to Queen Etain in one of the most beautiful of the stories: "The young never grow old; the fields and the flowers are as pleasant to be looking at as the blackbird's eggs; warm streams of mead and wine flow through that country; there is no care or no sorrow on any person; we see others, but we ourselves are not seen."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And when all was done, Midhir came to Eochaid again, looking thin and wasted enough with the dint of the hard work he had been doing, and he asked Eochaid to play the third game with him.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And as to Caoilte, he went out in a chariot belonging to Midhir of the

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892