Monday, April 16, 2018

Week 13: Reading Part A: Celtic Tales


 Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892)
Lake: Wikipedia
  • Lake known as Lyn y Van Vach
  • Saw three maidens rise from lake
  • Mortal beauty and offered bread to the woman
  • Woman ran off, because she didn'l like hard bread
  • Went back next day with with not as cooked bread
  • Again the maiden said she didn't want this uncooked bread
  • On the 3rd day, found floating bread, and offered to her
  • She said if he could pick her out among her sisters, he could have her
  • Offered cattle to her soon to be husband
  • They had 3 children, bur at christening, was too far, told her to go on horse
  • She needed her gloves, but she did not go on horse
  • That was one mistake
  • Another, while at a wedding, he tapped and asked why she was upset 
  • Husband was careful not to strike her
  • At a funeral, he touched again
  • The two were to become unmarried because he had strike her 3 times
  • Cattle and herself went back to the lake

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