Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Vol. II. Folk and Hero Tales. Collected, edited (in Gaelic), and translated by the Rev. D. MAC INNES; with a Study on the Development of the Ossianic Saga, and copious Notes by ALFRED NUTT. xxiv. 497 pages. Portrait of Campbell of Islay, and Two Illustrations by E. GRISET. 189...
“You made a long journey to-day; come with me until I show you a bed.” Then she brought him to a fine chamber, showed him a bed, and the king’s son fell asleep. He did not awake...
12. Part 12He turned to the young woman and said to her: “Thanks be to God, they’re gone. Would you not sooner stay with me than with them?” She gave him no answer. “There’s trouble and gr...
15. Part 15“Destruction on you,” said Donal, then; “it’s you’re the ungrateful man; I let you out of the coffin; I gave you a heat at the fire, and a share of my bed; and now you won’t kee...
14. Part 14About midnight, that night, there came a blast of wind under the roof of the houses of the priests, and it swept them into the river forenent the court. There was not a bone of...
8. Part 8“Tá súil agam go dtig liom,” ar san Prionnsa, “air ṁóḋ air biṫ déanfaiḋ mé mo ḋíṫċioll air do ṡon, mar ṫáinig tu ċoṁ fada sin le m’ḟeicsint-se. B’olc an ceart dam gan mo ḋíṫċiol...
6. Part 6Air maidin, lá air na ṁáraċ, ṫug an fear gearr glas mac ríġ Eireann agus a ṁuinntir amaċ as an g-caisleán agus d’ḟág sé ag ceann an ḃóṫair iad, agus ṫáinig sé féin air ais agus...
7. Part 7He took the giant with him, and he put him under the mouth of a _douac_, and a lock on him. He came back, and he brought the king of Ireland’s son, the gunman, the earman, the f...
11. Part 11The priest would not wait for him, but made off home as fast as his feet could carry him, and when he got into the house, he shut the door. Leeam was knocking at the door till h...
9. Part 9The prince said in a whisper: “Now the thirst’s coming on them; the salt that was in the beef is working them; now they’ll come out.” And before the word had left his mouth, the...
5. Part 5“Would you make a place for me where I’d go hiding?” said the fox. “The rest of the foxes do be beating me, and they don’t allow me to eat anything along with them.”
10. Part 10The day on the morrow Paudyeen went to the gentleman, gave him the money, and got possession of the house and land; and the gentleman left him the furniture and everything that...
4. Part 4It may, however, be objected that the real difference lies not so much in the subject-matter as in the mode of transmission; and the objection may seem to derive some force from...
17. Part 17Page 73. The weasel, like the cat, is an animal that has many legends and superstitions attaching to it. I remember hearing from an old shanachie, now unfortunately dead, a long...
3. Part 3Even in such an unpretending-looking story as “The King of Ireland’s Son” (the third in this volume), there are elements which must be vastly old. In a short Czech story, “Georg...
18. Part 18[Our story belongs to the group—the calumniated and exposed daughter or daughter-in-law. But in a German tale, belonging to the forbidden chamber series (Grimm’s, No. 3, Marienk...
16. Part 16Page 11. This incident appears to be a version of that in “Jack the Giant-Killer.” It seems quite impossible to say whether it was always told in Ireland, or whether it may not...
2. Part 2But now in tracing this typical story, we come across another remarkable fact—the fresh start the story took on its being thus recast and made up new. Once the order and progres...
1. Part 1Vol. II. Folk and Hero Tales. Collected, edited (in Gaelic), and translated by the Rev. D. MAC INNES; with a Study on the Development of the Ossianic Saga, and copious Notes by...
19. Part 19Heroine and attendant maidens made pregnant in their sleep, 135. seeks father of children, 139. recovers magic gifts abandoned by hero, 139, _et seq._ tests false claimants, 140...