More Celtic fairy tales, selected and ed. by J. JacobsJoseph Jacobs 1894 |
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Alfred Nutt asked began bird black horse brother castle Celtic child children of Lir cock coming coracle Cormac cows cried currach daughter Dearg the king door drink Dyfed Elidore Erin fairy Fairy Tales Farmer father feast filly Fingula folk-tale foot gave give golden bird Gwawl hand head heard herbs and healing Heveyth hump Ireland JOSEPH JACOBS Kayn Mac Loy killed King of Munster King's lady lame white land lord Luan Lusmore MacConglinney marry McAndrew morning Morraha mother never night O'Cronicert Oifa old hag Owen palace Powel Pryderi put a salve Red Shield Rhiannon rider salve of herbs seven short spear sister sleep Smallhead story swans Sword of Light tale Teirnyon tell thee thou thought to-night told took Tuatha de Danann unto White Shield wife wolf woman young
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158 ページ - Lusmore listened attentively, scarcely drawing his breath lest he might lose the slightest note. He now plainly perceived that the singing was within the moat; and though at first it had charmed him so much, he began to get tired of hearing the same round sung over and over so often without any change; so availing himself of the pause when the "Da Luan, Da Mort" had been sung three times, he took up the tune, and raised it with the words "augus Da Cadine...
161 ページ - Waterford, she told her everything that Lusmore had said, and they put the little hump-backed man, who was a peevish and cunning creature from his birth, upon a car, and took him all the way across the country. It was a long journey, but they did not care for that, so the hump was taken from off him; and they brought him, just at nightfall, and left him under the old moat of Knockgrafton. Jack Madden, for that was the humpy man's name, had not been sitting there long when he heard the tune going...
234 ページ - THREE wise men of Gotham Went to sea in a bowl; If the bowl had been stronger, My song had been longer.
45 ページ - It were more proper," said Pwyll, "that the boy should take his name from the word his mother spoke when she received the joyful tidings of him." And thus was it arranged. " Teirnyon," said Pwyll, " Heaven reward thee that thou hast reared the boy up to this time, and, being of gentle lineage, it were fitting that he repay thee for it." " My lord," said Teirnyon, " it was my wife who nursed him, and there is no one in the world so afflicted as she at parting with him. It were well that he should...
129 ページ - Now in those days the wolf was the biggest beast of the two, and he had a long tail like a greyhound and great teeth. The fox was afraid of him, and did not dare to say a word when the wolf ate the most of the crowdie, and left only a little at the bottom of the dish for him, but he determined to punish him for it so the next night when they were out together the fox pointed to the image of the moon in a pool left in the ice, and said : "I smell a very nice cheese, and there it is, too.
42 ページ - My lord," said his wife unto Teirnyon, " where is the colt which thou didst save on the night that thou didst find the boy ?" "I have commanded the grooms of the horses," said he, " that they take care of him." " Would it not be well, lord," said she, " if thou wert to cause him to be broken in, and given to the boy, seeing that on the same night that thou didst find the boy, the colt was foaled and thou didst save him ? " "I will not oppose thee in this matter," said Teirnyon. " I will allow thee...
160 ページ - Knockgrafton, with the cows and sheep grazing peacefully round about him. The first thing Lusmore did, after saying his prayers, was to put his hand behind to feel for his hump, but no sign of one was there on his back, and he looked at himself with great pride, for he had now become a well-shaped dapper little fellow, and more than that, found himself in a full suit of new clothes, which he concluded the fairies had made for him. Towards Cappagh he went, stepping out as lightly, and springing up...
27 ページ - go unto the palace, and take the fleetest horse that thou seest, and go after her." And he took a horse and went forward. And he came to an open, level plain, and put spurs to his horse ; and the more he urged his horse, the further was she from him. And...
26 ページ - Go one of you and meet her, that we may know who she is." And one of them arose, and as he came upon the road to meet her. she passed by, and he followed as fast as he could, being on foot...
40 ページ - ... rushed out in the direction of the noise, and he could not see the cause of the tumult because of the darkness of the night, but he rushed after it and followed it. Then he remembered that he had left the door open, and he returned. And at the door behold there was an infant boy in swaddling-clothes, wrapped around in a mantle of satin.