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Updated: July 1, 2025
And she brought him to the youth who was always known as the King of Ireland's Son, and him his father welcomed from the path of danger. And then the King's Son took Fedelma to his father and told him she was his love and his wife to be. And the King welcomed Fedelma to the Castle. Then said Gilveen, "There is a secret between this young man, Flann, and myself."
And that was the last story that Fedelma told, for they had crossed the Meadows of Brightness and had come to a nameless place a stretch of broken ground where there were black rocks and dead grass and bare roots of trees with here and there a hawthorn tree in blossom. "I fear this place. We must not halt here," Fedelma said.
And all the time the King of Ireland's Son thought he was being brought to the place where Fedelma was to the place where he would get food and where he could rest until just before the sun rose. They went on and on till they came to an old tower. The crane lighted upon it. The King's Son saw there was an iron door in the tower and he pulled a chain until it opened.
They crossed the River of the Ox, and went over the Mountain of the Fox and were in the Glen of the Badger before the sun rose. And there, at the foot of the Hill of Horns, they found an old man gathering dew from the grass. "Could you tell us where we might find the Little Sage of the Mountain?" Fedelma asked the old man.
Fedelma knew him from what she had heard told about him she knew him to be the King of the Land of Mist. The King of the Land of Mist came straight to them. He stood before Fedelma and he said, "I seek Fedelma, the daughter of the Enchanter of the Black Back-Lands and the fairest woman within the seas of Eirinn." "Then go to her father's house and seek Fedelma there," said she to him.
Now as the three went along the river-side they saw a girl on the other side of the river and she was walking from the place towards which they were going. The girl sang to herself as she went along, and the King's Son and Fedelma and the Little Sage of the Mountain heard what she sang, A berry, a berry, a red rowan berry, A red rowan berry brought mc beauty and love.
And he saw at the fire a young woman spinning at a spinning wheel, and her back was towards him, and her hair was the same as Fedelma's. Then he lifted the latch of the door and went very joyfully into the little house. But when the young woman at the spinning wheel turned round he saw that she was not Fedelma at all.
At night MacStairn built two bothies for them one covered with green boughs for Fedelma and Gilveen and one covered with cut sods for Flann and the King of Ireland's Son. Flann lay near the opening of this bothie.
He cut the net from where it hung and laid it on the ground. He cut open the meshes. Fedelma rose out of it and went into his arms. He lifted her up and carried her out into the seventh courtyard. Then the Hag who had been one of the sentinels came out of the Castle, closed the door behind her and ran away into the mist, three ravens flying after her.
And I have to tell you yet how the King of Ireland's Son won home with Fedelma, the Enchanter's daughter, and how it came to pass that the Seven Wild Geese that were Caintigern's brothers were disenchanted and became men again. But above all I have to tell you the end of that story that was begun in the house of the Giant Crom Duv the story of Flann and Morag.
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