swan-sister

Updated: June 6, 2025

Patrick stretched his hand and said, "Children of Lir, you may tread your native land again." And the sweet swan-sister, Finola, said, "If we tread our native land, it can only be to die, after our life of nine centuries. Baptize us while we are yet living."

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic