Tadg

And as to Tadg himself, it was only by his courage and the use of his sword he made his escape, but there was great grief and discouragement on him, his wife and his brothers to have been brought away.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And when they got to the nearest hill they found a white-bodied woman, the best of the women of the whole world, and it is what she said: "Your coming is welcome, Tadg, son of Cian, and there will be food and provision for you as you want it."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

Tadg, "to find summer here, and it winter time in our own country."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

Tadg and his men went farther on again till they came to a great smooth flowery plain with a dew of honey over it, and three steep hills on the plain, having a very strong dun on every one of them.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

When all was ready, and the curragh out in the tide, Tadg said to his people: "Let us set out now on the high sea, looking for our own people that are away from us this long time."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

"It is a beautiful country this is," said Tadg, "and it would be happy for him that would be always in it; and let you pull up the ship now," he said, "and dry it out."

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

Tadg took one side of the curragh then and his men took the other side, and he was able to pull it round against the whole twenty-nine of them, and to bale it out and keep it dry along with that.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

Dagda, with his seven sons; and Finnbharr of Cnoc Medha with his seventeen sons; Lir of Sidhe Fionnachaidh with his twenty-seven sons and their sons; Tadg, son of Nuada, out of the beautiful hill of Almhuin;

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

Tadg rose up then and put on his arms, and went out, and thirty of his men along with him, to search the whole island.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And when Tadg heard that, he made a plan in his own head, and he gave orders for a curragh to be built that would be fit for a long voyage.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892