Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales. Various

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Название Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
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       Various

      Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664652041

       Full-Page Illustrations

       CELTIC FAIRY TALES

       Connla and the Fairy Maiden

       Guleesh

       The Field of Boliauns

       The Horned Women

       Conall Yellowclaw

       Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary

       The Shepherd of Myddvai

       The Sprightly Tailor

       The Story of Deirdre

       Munachar and Manachar

       Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree

       King O'Toole and His Goose

       The Wooing of Olwen

       Jack and His Comrades

       The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire

       The Story-Teller at Fault

       The Sea-Maiden

       A Legend of Knockmany

       Fair, Brown, and Trembling

       Jack and His Master

       Beth Gellert

       The Tale of Ivan

       Andrew Coffey

       The Battle of the Birds

       Brewery of Eggshells

       The Lad with the Goat-skin

       Notes and References

       Folk and Fairy Tales from Many Lands

       Table of Contents

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.)

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

      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