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Updated: June 4, 2025
Flann wondered if he would see the King's daughter, Flame-of-Wine. He would surely go to the Castle. They drank ale, played chess and talked until it was afternoon. Then the grooms who were with Downal and Dermott brought the four youths new red cloaks. They put them on and went towards the King's Castle.
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.
"What is the secret?" said the Queen, laying her hands suddenly upon Gilveen's shoulders. "That I am his wife to be," said Gilveen. The Queen went to her son and said, "Dost thou not remember Morag, Flann, who gave the token that thou gavest me?" And Flann said, "Morag! I think the Spae-Woman spoke of her name in a story." "I am Flann's wife to be," said Gilveen, smiling in his face.
"And the Unique Tale is in part your own history, Flann," said the King of Ireland's Son, "for the child that was left with the Hags of the Long Teeth was no one else than yourself, for you, Flann, have on your breast the stars that denote the Son of a King." "It is so, it is so," said Flann, "and I will find out what King and Queen were my father and my mother."
She had black, black hair and she had a smiling face not happily smiling, but proudly smiling. Flann thought that a star had bent down with her. And when she had taken the fire and had gone away, Flann said, "She is surely the King's daughter!" "She is," said the King of Ireland's Son. "The people here have spoken her name." "What is her name?" asked Flann.
She walked with Flann along the paths of the orchard, but always she was watching her shadow to see if it showed her added magnificence. Her shadow showed nothing. She took Flann to the well in the orchard, and looked down into it, but her image in the well did not show her added magnificence either.
And when it was baked she wrapped it in a napkin and gave it to him. "Take my blessing with it," said she, "and if you escape, may you meet someone who will be a better help to you than I was. I must keep the twenty-four cats from watching you while you are climbing the wall." "And how will you do that?" said Flann. She showed him what she would do.
Then Flann set out to look for the King's Son. He found him at the door of the Brufir's, and they drank bowls of milk and ate oaten bread together, and then went to the gate of the town to watch the notable people who were coming in. And with the bards and harpers and Kings' envoys who came in, the King's Son saw his two half-brothers, Dermott and Downal.
"The sight has left their eyes," said Morag. "Then," said Flann, "I will climb the Fairy Rowan Tree and bring down two berries." "Be sure you bring down two, my dear, my dear," said Morag. They went out to the courtyard and Flann began to climb the Fairy Rowan Tree with all suppleness, strength and cunning.
"It is Lassarina," said the King's Son, "Flame-of-Wine." "Shall we see her again?" said Flann. "That I do not know," said the King's Son. "Come now, and let us ask the people here if they have knowledge of the Unique Tale." "Wait," said Flann, "they are talking about Princess Flame-of-Wine." He did not move, but listened to what was said. All said that the King's daughter was proud.
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