Tochmarc Étaíne

[2] It tells of the lives and loves of Étaín, a beautiful mortal woman of the Ulaid, and her involvement with Aengus and Midir of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

[3] Harvard professor Jeffrey Gantz describes the text as displaying the "poetic sense of law" in Irish legal society.

One such game compels Midir to build a causeway across the bog of Móin Lámrige: the Corlea Trackway, a wooden causeway built across a bog in County Longford, dated by dendrochronology to 148 BC, is a real-life counterpart to this legendary road.

Eochu tells Midir to come back in a year for his winnings, and gathers his best warriors at Tara to prepare for his return.

Eochu agrees that Midir may embrace Étaín, but when he does, the pair fly away through the skylight, turning into swans as they do so.

But at the appointed time, Midir brings fifty women, who all look alike, and tells Eochu to pick which one is Étaín.