In France there are commemorated:
S. Romain at Rouen, 628.
S. Pol, in Brittany, 594.
S. Julien, first bishop of Mans, 59.
S. Bié, or Bienheureux, at Vendôme.
S. Arnaud, on the banks of the Scarfe.
S. Clement, at Metz.
S. Eadegonde of Poitiers, on the Claiú.
S. Bertram, at Comminge, 1076.
S. Martial, on the Garonne.
S. Martha, at Tarascon, first century.
S. Marcel, at Paris.
S. Cyr, at Genoa.
S. Arnel, at Thiel.
S. Florent, near Saumur.
S. Véran, at Aries.
S. Victor, at Marseilles.
Dieudonné, at Rhodes.
Gilles de Chin, near Mons.
Nino Orlandi, at Pisa, 1109.
Raymond, at Neufchatel.
Alexis Comnenus, at Trebisonde, 1204.]
vii.—The Death of Diarmid; or, the Boar or Ben Laighal.
Once upon a time there was a king in Sutherland whose lands were ravaged by a boar of great size and ferocity. This boar had a den, or cave, in Ben Laighal, and that was full of the bones of cattle and of men.
The king swore a great oath that he would give his daughter to the man who should rid the country of the monster.
There came Ossian, and Fingal, and Oscar, and I know not how many more, but vainly they tried to compass the death of the boar. His bristles were a foot long, his tusks were great and white, and his eyes glowed red like beltane fires.
When Diarmid came he saw the king's daughter. Her robe was
