. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . I would have done that,if he had come himself to ask it. Then he went and he wrote, and they went awayto come home. AMien they were coming the daughterof the Earl of the Fiughaidh Avas in a burn. 0, said the Wliite Gruagach, I am dead. What ails thee % said Manus. There is a stone, said he, in the burn, andthere are tliree trouts under the stone, and they are inthy wifes apron. As long as the trouts should bealive I would be ahve, and thy Avife has one of themnow in the * His south hand, and his northern hand. f The word which n
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . I would have done that,if he had come himself to ask it. Then he went and he wrote, and they went awayto come home. AMien they were coming the daughterof the Earl of the Fiughaidh Avas in a burn. 0, said the Wliite Gruagach, I am dead. What ails thee % said Manus. There is a stone, said he, in the burn, andthere are tliree trouts under the stone, and they are inthy wifes apron. As long as the trouts should bealive I would be ahve, and thy Avife has one of themnow in the * His south hand, and his northern hand. f The word which now means trout in Gaelic means speckled,and is sometimes translated salmon. It appears that there weresacred salmon in Irish mythology. Fish appear on the sculpturedstones of Scotland, and salmon commonly appear as somethingmagical in other Gaelic stories. MANUS. 361 Is there anything in the world, said Manus,that would do thee good? The King of the Great World has a hornedvenomous (creature), and if I could get his blood Iwould be as well as I ever Prom a Stone in the Churchyard of St. Vigeans.—Sctdptured Stones ofScotland, PL Ixx. The stone has Christian sj-mhols, but this would seem torepresent the sacrifice of some fabulous animal. The people who sculp-tured the cross, the monks, and this figure, may have intended to representthe myths or ceremonies connected with the stone in Pagan and in Chris-tian times. They reached the house, and the White Gruagachwas dead. Then Manus went, and the speckled ship wasstolen from him, and there was no knowing who in theworld had taken it from him. One of his foster brothers said that Brodram, sonof the King of the Great World, had taken it with him. 362 WEST HIGHLAND TALES. He went away to Brodrain. He asked him whatmade him take that ship from him. He said that hehad stolen her himself before, and that he had no rightto her. He said that liis father had a venomoushorned (creature), and that while the Beannach I^Timhewas alive tha
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