Editing Lugh (section)

===Lugh's hound===
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Failinis was the name of the whelp of the King of Ioruaidhe that Lugh demanded as éiric (a forfeit) in the [[Tuireann|''Oidhead Chloinne Tuireann'']]. This concurs with the name of the hound mentioned in an "[[Ossianic]] Ballad",<ref>Stern, L. Chr. ed., tr. (into German), in: "Eine ossianische Ballade aus dem XII. Jahrhundert", [https://books.google.com/books?id=s6wCAAAAMAAJ ''Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage''], 1900, pp. 7–12, edited from LL 207b</ref> sometimes referred to by its opening line "{{lang|ga|Dám Thrír Táncatair Ille}} (They came here as a band of three)". In the ballad, the hound is called Ṡalinnis (Shalinnis) or Failinis (in the Lismore text),<ref>Whitley Stokes, Book of Lismore, fo. 153 b. recension of the ballad in the Notice on ''Festschrift'' above, in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=_hLEikZQOWYC ''Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie'', '''3'''], p. 432–</ref> and belonged to a threesome from Iruaide whom the [[Fianna]] encounter. It is described as "the ancient greyhound... that had been with Lugh of the Mantles, / Given him by the sons of Tuireann Bicreann"<ref>O'Curry, Eugene (1862), ed. tr. "Tri Thruaighe na Scéalaigheachta (Three Sorrows of Storytelling)" [https://books.google.com/books?id=yOsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA396 ''The Atlantis''] '''3''': 396–7.</ref>{{efn|The four verses excerpted by O'Curry do not include the hound's name, but the text actually does mention Failinis, the name of the hound in the full texts edited by Stokes and by Stern.}}