Grian

It seemed that he could read the character of each of his companions in their acknowledgments: Grian weighing the odds; Sumaire narrow-eyed, her hands deadly still; Mear frantic for adventure; Aer concerned for everybody except herself.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Grian, Surnaire and Aer came down as he was taking off his wings and PM, Aer too close, perhaps; Sumaire four-pointing; Grian dropping a full eight, wings bow-bent when he hit.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

As each agreed, he checked them off mentally: Grian, Sumaire, Mear, and Aer were still willing to accept his leadership.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Grian, who arrived still wearing his PM, said slowly, "We are not like you are, Woman."

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Ibar then selected a place of residence in Grian, in Aradha-Cliach.

The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

As Patrick was leaving this place, the women of Grian came to bewail his departure from them.

The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

Ireland was divided between those three, Coll the hazel, and Cecht the plough, and Grian the sun.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

The Irish name for the sun, Grian, is, according to Virgil, one of the names of Apollo -- another sun-god,

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

It is also remarkable that Grian, which signifies the sun in Irish, resembles an epithet of Apollo given by Virgil, [145] who sometimes styles him Grynæus.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

_Grian-chnox_, now Greenock, meaning _Knoll of the Sun_, may have originally marked the place where the sun's rising became visible at a certain period of the year, from a stone circle in the neighbourhood.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847