Baptized men poured libations of ale to one Daemon, and set out drink offerings of milk for another.
Seers wrapped themselves up in bulls' hides, and awaited, in that vesture, the inspiration which was to reveal the future.

Even among those minstrels and genealogists whose hereditary vocation was to preserve the memory of past events, an enquirer would have found very few who could read.

In truth, he might easily have journeyed from sea to sea without discovering a page of Gaelic printed or written.

The price which he would have had to pay for his knowledge of the country would have been heavy.

He would have had to endure hardships as great as if he had sojourned among the Esquimaux or the Samoyeds.