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Updated: June 25, 2025
And he went up to the top of the hill in Kerry, which is still called Mount Brendan, with fourteen chosen monks; and there, at the utmost corner of the world, he built him a coracle of wattle, and covered it with hides tanned in oak-bark and softened with butter, and set up in it a mast and a sail, and took forty days' provision, and commanded his monks to enter the boat, in the name of the Holy Trinity.
Now if a hair could be supposed to be thus immersed in a solution of particles similar to those, which compose it; one may imagine, that it might be thus increased in weight and magnitude; as the particles of oak-bark increase the substance of the hides of beasts in the process of making leather.
The muffled sounds of the feet of the various companies as they thundered past upon the snow, roused the old wives dozing over their knitting by their fires of spent oak-bark; and according to her temper would be the remark with which each startled dame turned again to her former busy quiescence: "Some mischeef o' the loons!" "Some ploy o' the laddies!"
Then the old man sent his son to make a healing salve out of herbs, to take away the soreness from Wainamoinen's knee. First the youth made a salve from oak-bark and young shoots, and many sorts of healing grasses. Three days and three nights he steeped them in a copper kettle, but when he had finished the salve would not do.
"Did you ever hear my mother sing?" asked Turkey, as we sat together over her little fire, on one of these occasions. "No. I should like very much," I answered. The room was lighted only by a little oil-lamp, for there was no flame to the fire of peats and dried oak-bark. "She sings such queer ballads as you never heard," said Turkey. "Give us one, mother; do."
But before she could speak, the answer came in another form, addressing itself to his nose instead of his ears. For out of the cottages floated clouds of smoke, pervading the air with a variety of scents of burning oak-bark, of burning leather-cuttings, of damp fire-wood and peat, of the cooking of red herrings, of the boiling of porridge, of the baking of oat-cake, &c., &c.
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