“And then he put on his helmet of battle and of combat and of fighting, from every recess and from every angle of which issued the shout as it were of an hundred warriors; because it was alike that woman of the valley (de bananaig), and hobgoblins (bacanaig), and wild people of the glen (geinti glindi), and demons of the air (demna acoir), shouted in front 154 of it, and in rear of it, and over it, and around it, wherever he went, at the spurting of blood, and of heroes upon it.”

Description of Cuchulain’s helmet in the story of The Tain bo ChuailgnÉ.––“O’Curry’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish,” Vol. II., p. 301.