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Updated: July 14, 2025
EMILY LAWLESS. MAELCHO: a Sixteenth Century Romance. By the Hon. EMILY LAWLESS, Author of 'Grania, 'Hurrish, etc. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'A striking and delightful book. A task something akin to Scott's may lie before Miss Lawless.
But the woman looking on the man saw one who had full wisdom to plan and full strength to build, whose wisdom and whose strength could neither grow nor diminish. And the man looking on the woman saw one whose brow had all quiet, whose heart had all benignity. "Hail, Gobaun, Builder for the Gods," said the woman. "Hail, Grania Oi, Reconciler for the Gods," said the man.
Mr. Goetze prided himself on being in the movement. Now, if Evelyn Innes would sing the title rôle, "Grania" was the very thing he wanted. And in such a frame of mind, he listened to Ulick Dean. He was glad that "Grania" was based on a legend; Wagner had shown that an opera could not be written except on a legendary basis.
So the warriors bade farewell to the palace of Cormac and went back to Allen, and there they told Finn that after two weeks he should go to Tara and wed the fair Grania. Slow sped the days, but when they were passed, Finn, with many chiefs and nobles as his guard, marched to Tara. And there Cormac received him right royally and made ready a great feast.
'What berries are those that Fionn wants? asked Grania, 'and why cannot they be got for him? Then Diarmid told her the story, and how the country round was laid waste. 'But when Fionn put me under his ban, continued he, 'the giant gave me leave to hunt there if I would, but forbade me to touch the berries. And now, O children of Moirna, will you fight me or seek the berries?
They found the giant asleep before the tree, and Diarmid pushed him with his foot. The giant raised his head and looked at him: 'Are you fain to break peace, O Diarmid? 'Not I, answered he, 'but Grania my wife is ill, and she longs for the taste of your berries, and it is to get a handful of them that I am now come. 'If she should die, said the giant, 'she should have none.
Then the second hound was loosened, and Diarmid waited till he came close, so that he could take sure aim; and he cast his javelin into the hound and it fell dead like its fellow, and having drawn his javelin, he followed after Grania. They had not gone much farther before the third hound was upon them.
'Now go, said he, 'take as many berries as you can to Fionn, and tell him that it was you who slew the giant. And they gave thanks to Diarmid and left him, and he and Grania went to sleep on the top of the tree where the sweetest berries grew. The children of Moirna reached Fionn, and bowed before him.
With care and with skill did they play, until at length Finn said to his son, 'I see one move, Oisin, that would win thee the game, yet is there none of thine helpers that can show thee how thou mayest win. Then Dermat, who had watched the game from among the branches overhead, spoke aloud to himself the move that should be played. And Grania sat by her husband ill at ease.
'There, Grania, are the berries you asked for, said Diarmid when she came, but she swore that she would not taste a berry except he plucked it for her. So he plucked the berries for her and for the children of Moirna, and they ate their fill of them.
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