The hero Fionn mac Cumhaill is supposed to have lived in Cormac's time, and most of the stories of the Fenian Cycle are set during his reign.

In Lebor Gabála Érenn he is said to have died in the reign of Conmael, nearly two thousand years before Cormac's time.

There is also a tract in TCD MS 1336 ( olim MS H 3. 17 ), col. 723 which claims that the spear survived into the reign of Cormac mac Airt, and came to be known as the Crimall of Birnbuadach causing Cormac's blinding and rendering him unfit for kingship.

* Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.

However, in other traditions Eithne is the wife of Cormac's grandfather Conn Cétchathach.

The cries of Badb may also be an ill omen: Cormac's impending death is foreshadowed with the words " The red-mouthed badbs will cry around the house, / For bodies they will be solicitous " and " Pale badbs shall shriek ".

The name of Isle of Man is eponymous after Manannán mac Lir, a Celtic sea god, according to an old Irish lexicon ( Cormac's glossary or Sanas Cormaic ).

According to some traditions Ness is the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar ( although in other traditions, Cormac's mother is Conchobar's wife Clothru ).

Sanas Cormaic ( or Sanas Chormaic, Irish for " Cormac's narrative "), also known as Cormac's Glossary, is an early Irish glossary containing etymologies and explanations of over 1, 400 Irish words, many of which are difficult or outdated.

Cormac's first appearance in the mainstream DC Comics universe is DC Comics Presents # 46, helping Superman find an ancient ruin in Ireland.

Noronsa is able to use Cormac's mystical lantern only after Queen Bee modifies it.

Its Irish cognate may be " Triath, king of the Swine " ( Old ) or the Torc Triath mentioned in the Lebor Gabála, also recorded as Old Irish Orc tréith " Triath's boar " in Cormac's Irish Glossary.

Pelter determines Cormac's location by bribing some members of the planetary army.

According to Cormac's Glossary, she was a goddess the pagan Irish worshipped on Samhain.

The 9th-century Irish dictionary Sanas Cormaic (" Cormac's glossary ") describes Iarnnbélrae as a recently extinct language which was " dense and difficult ", and records two words which derived from it: ond

" The ninth century Sanas Cormaic ( or " Cormac's Glossary ") says the "... Druids used to make fires with great incantations ," and were lit to safeguard against diseases.

Cormac's Glossary ( also 9th century ), and a gloss in the later manuscript H. 3. 18, both explain the plural word gudemain (" spectres ") with the plural form morrígna.

Cormac's father was the former High King Art mac Cuinn.

When Lugaid heard this, he conceded that Cormac's judgement was superior to his and abdicated the throne.

Lugaid revealed that it had been he who had killed Cormac's father in the Battle of Maigh Mucruimhe, and Cormac demanded, as éraic for Art's life, that Lugaid give him Fergus ' head.

Lugaid took the head of Fergus ' brother, Fergus Foltlebair, and brought it to Cormac's attendant, who told him this was not the head of the king of Ulster.

But Fiacha in desperation turned to the powerful Munster druid Mug Ruith for aid, and his magic was too strong even for Cormac's fairy druids.

The 8th-century text The Expulsion of the Déisi describes enmity between Cormac and the group known as the Déisi, descendants of Cormac's great grandfather Fedlimid Rechtmar who had been his retainers.

Cormac's son Cellach ( or Conn ) abducts Forach, the daughter of a Déisi leader.

Óengus runs Cellach through with his " dread spear ", which has three chains attached to it ; these chains wound one of Cormac's advisers and blind Cormac in one eye.

She appears in a similar guise in Togail Bruidne Dá Choca to foretell the slaying of Cormac Condloinges, as well as taking the form of a " washer at the ford "— a woman washing Cormac's chariot and harness in a ford in what was considered an omen of death.

A number of these associations are attested in Cormac's Glossary.

The most prominent earthworks within are the two linked enclosures, a bivallate ring fort and a bivallete ring barrow known as Teach Chormaic ( Cormac's House ) and the Forradh or Royal Seat.

Descriptions of the practices associated with Imbas forosnai are found in Cormac's Glossary and in the mythology associated with Finn MacCumhail.

Most common was the Romanesque style, as seen at Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel, and at Clonfert Cathedral in Galway.

A protracted battle then takes place in the forest ; Cormac's crew kills Pelter's crew, the Golems Cento and Aiden take out Mr. Crane, and Cormac drills a hole through Pelter's head with his thin-gun.

To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.

One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

Of the public transactions of this period there is only the scantiest of information, but, to judge by what is extant, those twenty-two years were not remarkably eventful in comparison to those before and after his reign.

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

Essentially, 1 Kings 16: 29 through 20: 40 is the story of Ahab's reign.

This reign is one which faces opposition from several prophets of Yahweh throughout as well as various consequences because of his marriage to Jezebel, because of his worship of Baal, disobedience to prophetic warnings and words, and also because of the murder of Naboth.

Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, " Alaric's reign gets no full treatment in the sources, and the little they do contain is overshadowed by his death in the Battle of Vouillé and the downfall of the Toulosan kingdom.

" One example is Isidore of Seville's account of Alaric's reign: consisting of a single paragraph, it is primarily about Alaric's death in that battle.

The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

The last part of Afonso IV's reign is marked not by open warfare against Castile, but by political intrigue.

Another, showing an early use of electional astrology, is ascribed to the reign of the Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash ( ca.

Strabo's mention of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest places his knowledge in the final years of Augustus ' reign and after, which is the early first century.

Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both Emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395 ; though definite proof of Stilicho's involvement in the assassination is lacking, the intense competition and political jealousies engendered by the two figures compose the main thread of the first part of Arcadius ' reign.

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

# 1 Chronicles ( chapters 11 – 29 ) is a history of David's reign.

# The beginning of 2 Chronicles ( chapters 1 – 9 ) is a history of the reign of King Solomon, son of David.

Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 – 1603 ), played by Miranda Richardson.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.