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Updated: June 12, 2025
The prince, filled with the delight of triumph, followed the cattle to the palace gate where the king's herder took charge of them. Then he hastened to his father and mother and bade them go to see the costly wager he had won from the Giant of Loch Lein. The king and queen and all the court were delighted with the cattle, whose gold horns and silver hoofs shone in the sunlight.
Then pile the bones in a heap upon my flesh and say, 'Come back, Yellow Lily of Loch Lein, and lo! I will be myself again. But be careful be careful not to leave one of my bones on the tree." For a long time the prince refused to obey her request until Yellow Lily grew vexed and said: "Then I will tell father that I have been helping you, and he will kill us both.
As for Lough Lein itself, who could speak its loveliness, lying like a crystal mirror beneath the black Reeks of the McGillicuddy, where, in the mountain fastnesses, lie spell-bound the sleeping warriors who, with their bridles and broadswords in hand, await but the word to give Erin her own!
The king of Munster was prohibited from enjoying the feast of Loch Lein from one Monday to another; from banqueting by night in the beginning of harvest before Geim at Leitreacha; from encamping for nine days upon the Siuir; and from holding a border meeting at Gabhran.
You will find it easy to strip off my flesh, for you have only to say, 'Yellow Lily of Loch Lein. Say it again and my bones will all separate. You will find that my bones will stick to this tree like little steps. On the ladder of bones you can climb to the top of the tree. Get the egg and climb down carefully, each time pulling one of my bones from the tree until you have reached the earth.
She fluttered to the floor screaming: "You wouldn't have done that the day you killed me and took my bones to make steps on the glass tree nine hundred feet high, to get the crow's egg for the supper of the Giant of Loch Lein and forgot my little toe, and made me lame for life!"
The Prince of Erin rose to his feet, red with shame, and turning to the King of Loch Lein, said: "When I was younger I roamed about hunting and playing games. Once while away from home, I lost the key to a valuable chest. After a new key was made I found the old one. Which of the two keys should be kept, the old one or the new one?"
But when the musicians began to play a brilliant air, the palace re-echoed from tower to dungeon with joyous shouts of "Long live the Prince of Erin and his future bride, Yellow Lily of Loch Lein!" Once upon a time, a Mouse, a Bird, and a Sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.
It was also agreed to invite Blue Lily, White Lily, and Yellow Lily, and to treat them as princesses of the royal blood. In time the King of Loch Lein, who was an aged man, arrived with his daughter and a shipful of attendants. The gatekeeper blew his bugle and the whole court of Erin ran out to greet them.
The prince himself finally grew much interested in getting ready for the great event. In fact he almost forgot about Yellow Lily and the help she had given him to save his head. Yet he bade his father invite the Giant of Loch Lein to be present at the feast to be given before the day of the wedding.
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