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Updated: June 4, 2025
Flann thought he would see a long-armed creature like Crom Duv himself. Instead he saw a girl with good and kind eyes, whose disfigurements were that her face was pitted and her hair was bushy. "I am Morag, Crom Duv's byre-maid," said she. "Will Crom Duv kill me?" said Flann. "No. He'll make you serve him," said the byre-maid. "And what will he make me do for him?"
The Steward who had seen him the day before signed to the servants to let him pass through the gate. He went into the King's orchard. Maidens were singing the "Song for the Time of the Blossoming of the Apple-trees" and all that day and night Flann held their song in his mind
"Oh, how jealous I should be if someone brought the Comb of Magnificence to either of my two sisters to Bloom-of-Youth or Breast-of-Light. I should think then that this rose was not such a treasure after all." When he was leaving the orchard she plucked a flower and gave it to him. "Come and walk in the orchard with me to-morrow," she said. "Surely I will come," said Flann.
They halted and stood waiting for the conjurer to appear. He came out and put a ladder standing upright with nothing to lean against and began climbing up. Up, up, up, he went, and the ladder grew higher and higher as he climbed. Flann thought he would climb into the sky. Then the ladder got smaller and smaller and Flann saw the conjurer coming down on the other side.
The other is a youth who is the King's son too, hut who has been away for a long time. Flann is his name. And he is to be married to a damsel called Gilveen." When she heard that, it was as if a knife had been put into and turned in her heart. She let the Little Red Hen drop from her arm.
There was sorrow on Morag's face when she said that, but the sorrow went as the thin clouds go from before the face of the high-hung moon, and Flann saw her as his kind comrade of Crom Duv's and as his beautiful friend of the Spae-Woman's house.
He went through the East gate of the Town of the Red Castle and his journey was to the house of the Hags of the Long Teeth where he might learn what Queen and King were his mother and his father. It is with the youth Flann, once called the Gilly of the Goatskin, that we will go if it be pleasing to you, Son of my Heart. He went his way in the evening, when, as the bard said:
He walked through the town after the King's Son had ridden after the Enchanter, without noticing anyone until he heard a call and saw Mogue standing beside a little tent that he had set up before the Bull's Field. Flann went to Mogue and found him very disconsolate on account of the loss of the horse he had brought into the town.
Flann put his hand into the horse's left ear and he found a bubble of water. He flung it behind them. Instantly it spread out as a lake and as they rode on, the lake waters spread behind them. Morag and Flann never knew whether the Giant and the Bull went into that lake, or if they did, whether they ever came out of it.
They will believe me because you have brought me such a treasure! I suppose there is nothing more wonderful than this rose!" Then Flann told her about the other wonderful thing he had seen the Comb of Magnificence. "A King's daughter should have such a treasure," said Flame-of-Wine.
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