Note 16 — THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS (continued 3)
Reading edition
The "mircath," or war-frenzy, is mire-chath, the "passion of battle," as the "mirdeeay" is mire-dheidh, the "passion of longing." The word Darthula—infra—is a later Gaelic variant of Dearduil (almost identically pronounced), the Scoto-Gaelic equivalent of the Erse Deirdrê, the most beautiful woman of old.