Various
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664652041
Table of Contents
Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
Folk and Fairy Tales from Many Lands
Full-Page Illustrations
PAGE | |
The Sea-Maiden | Frontispiece |
Connla and the Fairy Maiden | 5 |
Conal Yellowclaw | 47 |
Deirdre | 77 |
The Eagle of Errio Abwy | 121 |
"Trembling" at the Church Door | 187 |
Thatching with Birds' Feathers | 233 |
Caution to Readers | 256 |
(Full-page illustrations, initials, and cuts, from blocks supplied by Messrs. J. C. Drummond & Co.)
CELTIC FAIRY TALES
Connla and the Fairy Maiden
onnla of the Fiery Hair was son of Conn of the Hundred Fights. One day as he stood by the side of his father on the height of Usna, he saw a maiden clad in strange attire towards him coming.
"Whence comest thou, maiden?" said Connla.
"I come from the Plains of the Ever Living," she said, "there where is neither death nor sin. There we keep holiday