The King of Ireland's Son

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reland's Son, "and I'll play a last game with you on the same understanding as before." He tied his horse to the branch and sat down on the heap of stones. They played. The Kin

's wife I have done an injury too. You have lost the game and now you must take the penalty I put upon you. You mus

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e heard his groans and his moans. The next day he told his father the story from beginning to end. The King sent for

d take the three hairs out of his beard or else lose his head. For if the heir to your kingdom does not honorably pay his forfeit, the ground of Ireland won't give crops and the cattle wo

lessing on account of his having brought in the brown bear that turned her from her chair in the supper-room. Nor would she let him have the good horse

m the bush tops, from tuft to tuft, and to the briar-roots, going to rest; but if they were, he was not, till the night came on, blind and

the birds and beasts that the King's Son had ever known. He went on, but he saw no living creature before him. And then, at the end of the waste he came upon two living creatures struggling. One was an eagle and the oth

hat there has been a battle of the creatures-a battle to decide which of the creatures will make laws for a year. All were killed except the eel and myself, and if you had n

y showing me how I may come to the dominion

-Lands. Mark the one who carries a green scarf in her mouth. She is the youngest daughter and the one who can help you. When the swans come to the ground they will transform themselves into maidens and bathe in the lake. Two will come out, put on their swanskins and transform themselves and fly away. But you must hide the swanskin that belongs to the youngest maiden. She will search and search and

fore him and then with the sun at his back, until he came to the shore of a wide lake. He turned his horse