Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales. Various

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      Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664652041

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       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

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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

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CELTIC FAIRY TALES

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Connla and the Fairy Maiden

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      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