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Updated: June 28, 2025
The King of Leinster came back then. He went to Duv Laca's room. "Where is Tibraide'?" said he. "It wasn't Tibraide was here," said the hag who was still sitting on the spike, and was not half dead, "it was Mongan." "Why did you let him near you?" said the king to Duv Laca. "There is no one has a better right to be near me than Mongan has," said Duv Laca, "he is my own husband," said she.
"She bade me go to a King's house where a child had been born. She bade me steal the child away. I went to the King's house. I went into the chamber and I stole the child from the mother's side. Then I ran through the woods. But in the end I fell into a trap that the Giant Crom Duv had set for the wolves that chased his stray cattle. "For a night I lay in the trap with the child beside me.
The next day the King's Councillor was feeding the birds and I was sifting the corn. I asked him what was the history of the Fairy Rowan Tree that the Giant Crom Duv guarded and why it was that the Queen longed for a berry of it. There and then he told me this story: The Story of the Fairy Rowan Tree Curoi, the King of the Munster Fairies loved Aine' and sought her in marriage.
"Arrah! d'ye think I'll spake a word av ye stick yer great ugly fists into my jooglar veins like that? Hands off," he cried indignantly, "or niver a taste o' spaitch ye'll git from me, bad or good. Besides, what duv I know about Roosian?" "Ye've bin in Toorkey, han't ye?" inquired a fisherman. "Troth I have, an' what o' that?" replied Dan, as his captors released their hold of his collar.
She fell in love with them as Mongan had done, but there was nobody in the world could have avoided loving those cows: such cows they were! such wonders! Mongan and Duv Laca used to play chess together, and then they would go out together to look at the cows, and then they would go in together and would talk to each other about the cows.
And when he said that his spirits revived, and he called for mac an Da'v. "You know, my friend," said Mongan, "that I can't get Duv Laca back unless the King of Leinster asks me to take her back, for a bargain is a bargain." "That will happen when pigs fly," said mac an Da'v, "and," said he, "I did not make any bargain with any king that is in the world."
'Luik here, Shargar! he said under his breath, for they never dared to speak aloud in these precincts 'luik here! What can there be in this box? Is't a bairnie's coffin, duv ye think? Luik at it.
A creel was then hung at the other side, in which was placed a large stone, of sufficient weight to preserve an equilibrium; and, to prevent any accident, a droll fellow sat astride behind the straddle, amusing himself and the rest by breaking jokes upon the novelty of Mat's situation. "Well, Mat, ma bouchal, how duv ye like your sitivation?
Duv Laca had a young attendant, who was her foster-sister as well as her servant, and on the day that she got married to Mongan, her attendant was married to mac an Da'v, who was servant and foster-brother to Mongan.
Then he started work on his wall, making Flann carry mortar to him. Morag put down the fire and boiled the pots. Pots of porridge, plates of butter and pans of milk were on the table when' Crom Duv and Flann came in to their breakfasts. Then, when the Giant had driven out his cattle to the pasture Flann cleaned the byre and made the mortar, mixing lime and sand with bullock's blood and new milk.
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