School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Farelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)on me said Fionn. I will undertake this leap myself. Now the lady had already caught sight of Fionn and she liked him well. Tell this stranger said she to a messenger that I have never seen a man worse dressed.
Tell your mistress Fionn answered boldly it is not my clothes but myself I ask her to wed. Then not waiting to hear more he tucked his skin tunic around him and ran towards the chasm.
Like a swift deer he sprang across to the other side and then not pausing to take breath he leaped back to the bank where he had first stood. Then having crossed the chasm once more he knelt at the lady's feet and she gave him three bracelets from her arm.
Thus she consented to be his wife and the prince who failed to take the leap went away in deep anger
- Collector
- Miriam Arnold
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
