From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland (ed. 1905)