HERO-TALES OF IRELAND COLLECTED BY JEREMIAH CURTIN LONDON MACMILLAN AND CO. 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN MORLEY, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR IRELAND. SIR,— To you, a thinker who values every age of human history, and a statesman who takes deep interest in the nation which produced and kept these tales, I beg to dedicate this volume. JEREMIAH CURTIN. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION ix ELIN GOW, THE SWORDSMITH FROM ERIN, AND THE COW GLAS GAINACH 1 MOR’S SONS AND THE HERDER FROM UNDER THE SEA 35 SAUDAN OG AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF SPAIN; YOUNG CONAL AND THE YELLOW KING’S DAUGHTER 58 THE BLACK THIEF AND KING CONAL’S THREE HORSES 93 THE KING’S …
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