A "flame of fire swifter than a blast of wind" as punishment for the sin of the Irish.
Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · World-fire. · view the constellation · filed as A1031.1
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- Irish mythCross.