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.Now make haste, for it is time for meto die.'Then Goreu took his uncle the Chief Giant by the hair of his headand dragged him out from the hall, struck off his head and set it on astake on the wall.And so the deaths of his three and twenty brothers,and the sufferings of his mother and his father Custennin, wereavenged at last.That very day Kilhwch and Olwen were married, and she was hisbeloved wife for as long as she lived.After the marriage feasting, allArthur's warriors dispersed and went each man to his own lands.Andthus, in fulfilment of the destiny which had been laid upon him by hisstepmother, did Kilhwch win for his wife Olwen, daughter of Haw-thorn the Chief Giant.The cauldron a/plenty is a very popular element in Celtic myth.There is thecauldron of the Dagda,from which no one was turned away unsatisfied; thecauldron that made^he dead alive, which Bran gave to Matholwch of Irelandwhen he married Bran's sister, Branwen; and in this last story we have boththe cauldron of Diurnach the Irishman and the mwys 'receptacle ofGwyddno of the Long Legs.Pwyll and his son Pryderi, gods of the under-world, owned a cauldron set with pearls around its edge, which would notcools the food of a coward or a perjurer.In an early and rather obscure Welshpoem, ascribed to Taliesin, is described how Arthur and his companionsinvaded the domain ofPwyl) and carried off his cauldron.Pwyll is the originalof the King Pelles of the later Arthurian romances; and by that time hiscauldron has become the Holy Grail which is sought by Arthur's knights.The everlasting combat between Gwyn ~representing winter and darkness68THE BRIDE-PRICE FOR OLWEN and Gwythyr representing summer and light for theCreidylad the spring with all its flowers and growing crops-nature myth.In this story, as in others, Creidylad is the daughter ofLludd,the sky-god; but another tradition makes her the daughter of the sea-godLlyr; and as Cordeilla, daughter of King Leir of Britain, she appears in theHistoria Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth; and it was fromthe pages of Geoffrey that Shakespeare took the plot for his King Lear.possession of" is an obvious69THE PURSUIT OF THE HARD MANThe stories about Finn Mac Cool belong to a later legendary cycle than thetwo previous Irish stories in this book.There are a great many tales connectedwith Finn and his followers, and this is not surprising, since he is the best-loved hero of the Gaelic-speaking peoples in Scotland and the Isle of Man,as well as in Ireland.Finn Mac Cool who is wlileely to have been a real historical figure, inspite of many theories to tins effect and his men of the Fianna formed astanding army of well-tried warriors wlio could be called upon by the HighKing of Ireland to defend the land for him in times of danger; and when Finnand his friends were notfigluing, they were hunting.Many of his adventuresbegin with the words: ' When Finn and the Fianna were hunting in.' Thetwo following stories are of this kind. The first one is light and cheerful, and not very serious.Every year, so long as Ireland was at peace, from the beginning of Mayto the end of October, the Fianna would hunt each day with theirhounds, going here and there all about Ireland in search of deer andboar.One year, when they were on their first hunt of the summer, Finnand a few of his companions amongst them were Oisin, his son, red-haired Oscar, his grandson, Gaul Mac Morna, Fergus Finnvel, the poet,Conan the Bald, and Finn's nephew, handsome, aubum-hairedDermot O'Dyna sat down to rest from the chase on the top of the hillof Knockainy, in Limerick.Finn was ever fond of a game of chess, sothey set out the chessboard and the men on the green grass, and hebegan a game with one of the others, while Finn Ban Mac Bresal stooda short way off and kept watch.The game had only been started a little time when Finn Ban camerunning back towards them, calling out excitedly, and they all jumpedto their feet.70THE PURSUIT OF THE HARD MAN'There is a giant coming this way, leading a horse,' lie cried
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Freethy Barbara Zatoka Aniołów 05 Ogród tajemnic
Freethy Barbara Zatoka Aniołów 02 Na cienistej plaży
Rybałtowska Barbara Bez pożegnania 003 Kolo graniaste
Kalicińska Małgorzata, Grabowska Barbara Irena
Wood Barbara Kobieta tysišca tajemnic
Kaye Barbara W drodze do Kalifornii SR045
Barbara Wood Zielone miasto w słońcu
Kingsolver Barbara Biblia jadowitego drzewa
Córka dymu i koÂści Taylor Laini