Crossword-Solution: CROM 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Patrick, in his "Confessio," seems to allude to Crom Cruagh when he says: "That sun which we behold by the favor of God rises for us every day; but its splendor will not shine forever; nay, even all those who adore it shall be miserably punished." The Bollandists, in a note on this passage of the "Confessio," think that it might refer to Crom Cruagh, which possibly represented the sun, surrounded by the signs of the twelve months, through which it describes its orbit during the year.

THE KING OF IRELAND’S SON by Padraic Colum CONTENTS: FEDELMA, THE ENCHANTER’S DAUGHTER WHEN THE KING OF THE CATS CAME TO KING CONNAL’S DOMINION THE SWORD OF LIGHT AND THE UNIQUE TALE, WITH AS MUCH OF THE ADVENTURES OF GILLY OF THE GOAT-SKIN AS IS GIVEN IN “THE CRANESKIN BOOK” THE TOWN OF THE RED CASTLE THE KING OF THE LAND OF MIST THE HOUSE OF CROM DUV THE SPAE-WOMAN FEDELMA, THE ENCHANTER’S DAUGHTER I Connal was the name of the King who ruled over Ireland at that time.

But in the end I fell into a trap that the Giant Crom Duv had set for the wolves that chased his stray cattle.

There was straw on the ground of the courtyard and Crom Duv lay down on it and went to sleep with the cattle trampling around him.

Crom Duv emptied one after the other..Then he shouted for his knife and when Morag brought it he began to sharpen it, singing a queer song to himself.