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alled Newgrange, there stood long ago the shining Palace of a prince of

rolling water

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arms by which they and all their possessions became invisible to mortals, and thus they continued to lead their old joyous life in the holy places of the land, and their palaces and danc

. On the same day Fand, the wife of Mananan the Sea God, bore him a daughter, and since Angus was a friend of Mananan and much beloved by him, the child of the Sea God was

food, or of any other, yet she continued to seem healthy and well-nourished. This was reported to Angus, and by him to Mananan, and Mananan by his wisdom discovered the cause of it. One of the lords of the Danaans, happening to be on a visit with Angus, was rendered distraught by the maiden's beauty, and one day he laid hands upon her and strove to carry her away to his own dwelling. Ethne escaped from him, but the blaze of resentment at the insult that lit up in her soul consumed in her the fairy natur

r other maidens along with her. After they had refreshed themselves in the cool, amber-coloured water, they arrayed themselves i

ark recess among the great trees that bordered it, for Ethne was dearly loved by all of them; but neither trace nor t

ce of Angus was but a wooded hill. She knew not where she was, and pierced with sudden terror she fled wildly away, seeking for the familiar places that she had known in the fairy life, but which were now behind the Veil. At length she came to a high wall wherein was a wicket gate, and through it she saw

y and brought her to St Patrick himself, who instruct

own name called

lamentations, and her own name called again and again in a multitude of voices, thin and faint as the crying of curlews upon the moor. She sprang up and gazed around, calling in return,

he fell into a sickness from which she never recovered. In no long time she died with her head upon the breast of the holy Patrick, and she was buried i

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