An instructive parallel may be adduced from the saga of Cuchulainn.
One of the finest of them is only a few hundred yards from the dun of Cuchulainn.
Her army is flying in rout homeward across the Shannon, closely pursued by Cuchulainn.
These may nearly all be referred to the oldest heroic Irish cycle, the Ultonian, of which Cuchulainn is the most prominent figure.
Till the end of a year Cuchulainn lay on his sick-bed at Emain-Macha without speaking to any one.
