Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)

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1. An Tarbh Breac (continued)

   

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   the whole thing. She told the mother what she had seen and how the boy was fed. The other now pretended to be very ill and told the King that nothing would cure her but a piece of a ittle red bull. The king told her that the little red bull was a familt heir-loom and that he could not part with him. Then she told him that she would die if she did not get a bit of him. At last the King consented and ordered the bull be brought in to be killed. The night before he was to be brought in the bull told the boy that he was to be brought in to be killed next day in order to cure the Queen. Then he told him what he was to do. He told that he was to get on his back and ride him to the palace yard - he would be brought to a stable to be killed - the boy was to accompany him to the stable. Just as the butcher was to draw the knife to kill him he was to jump

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tom Gallagher