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Updated: June 7, 2025
On eleven of the spikes are the heads of kings' sons who came seeking my daughter in marriage, and all of them went away to get the knowledge I wanted. Not one was able to get it and tell me what stopped the Gruagach Gaire from laughing.
I must have one more game, cried the king; 'just this one, and he went off to the house of the Gruagach. Joy filled the heart of the Gruagach when he saw him coming, and without waiting to talk they played their game. Somehow or other, the king's strength and skill had departed from him, and soon the Gruagach was the victor.
He is brother to the king of the oak windows, and sure will he be that the king must be dead, or the sword would not be in your hands. After that she kissed him, and bade him good speed. 'Didst thou get the sword? asked the Gruagach, when they met in the usual place. 'I got the sword. 'And how didst thou get it? 'If it had not had a knob on the top, then I had not got it, answered the king.
'That is just what I want, said the king, and they played; and sometimes it seemed as if one would win, and sometimes the other, but in the end it was the king who was the winner. 'And what is the prize that you will choose? inquired the Gruagach. 'The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door, replied the king.
At last his face brightened. 'I know! he said, 'I will go and play a game with the Gruagach. Now the Gruagach was a kind of wicked fairy, with long curly brown hair, and his house was not very far from the king's house.
'That is just what I want, said the king, and they played; and sometimes it seemed as if one would win, and sometimes the other, but in the end it was the king who was the winner. 'And what is the prize that you will choose? inquired the Gruagach. 'The ugly crop-headed girl that stands behind the door, replied the king.
So he took the wooden one; and going to the pot, brought out on the pike all the stork except a small bite, and he and the Gruagach fell to eating, and they were eating the flesh of the stork all night. The cowboy and the Gruagach were at home in the place that time.
Then he climbed a tree, ate the sweet apples himself, and threw the sour ones down to the cattle of the Gruagach Gaire. Soon a great crashing was heard in the woods, the noise of young trees bending, and old trees breaking. The cowboy looked around and saw a five-headed giant pushing through the trees; and soon he was before him.
"We must indeed," said the Gruagach; and at it they went, threw the people some on one side and some on the other, and soon they had an opening for themselves to the king's castle. As they went in, the daughter of the king of Erin and the son of the king of Tisean were on their knees just going to be married.
"And everything handsome about them," he interrupted me by exclaiming; "and you call yourself a Mackenzie of Megasky! What has become of family pride? Why, you yourselves have Gruagach of the Red Hand in the hall, and he, I can tell you, is a very different sort of spectre from me. Pre-Christian, you know one of the oldest ghosts in Ross-shire. But as to 'hard on a family, why, noblesse oblige."
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