Scoil: Cromadh (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Traditions - Miscellaneous (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

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   dealt with on Cro-hara-thor-nakthor, I think now that an integral part of that story was that the giant's heart was in a pigeon's egg which had not been laid, and that in order to kill the giant the pigeon with its egg had first to be destroyed. I heard these stories under unfortunate circumstances because (when they were being told me) I was wracked between the mental anxiety to listen to and retain them and the physical desire for sleep. Under the new stimulus inspired by the collection of the local traditions of every shade I have been able to resurrect from my own memory, only fragments unfortunately, of what, no matter how great my attention, I only half heard.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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2. Local Traditions - Miscellaneous - A Folk Tale

   

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   Another fragment which I remember concerned a king whose queen died, leaving him one son. The king married secondly and the new step-mother who had herself two daughters became jealous of the little boy and tried to poison him. He had however a friend in a brown bull who used to supply food to the boy from his horn, on a "napkin". Eventually the step-mother had the brown bull killed and the boy got a belt of the bull's skin and with this belt he carved his way to fortune. I have entirely forgotten the incidents in the boy's career but I know the stories ended for me this wise:

   "And they got married and lived happy, and if they didn't, that we may, put down the kettle and make the tay"

   Now I asked the schoolboys if any of them had ever heard stories like those I have noted above, and the result was

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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