Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . sios,father of Danac, in the Greek myth, had her imprisonedin a high tower which he caused to be built on aprecipitous headland, the Tor M5r, in Tory placed the girl in charge of twelve matrons, whowere strictly charged to prevent her from ever seeingthe face of man, or even learning that there were anybeings of a different sex from her own. In thisseclusion Ethlinn grew up—as all sequestered princessesdo—into a maiden of surpassing beauty. Now it happened that there were on the mainlandthree brothers, namely, Kian, Sawan, and Goban theSmith, the
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . sios,father of Danac, in the Greek myth, had her imprisonedin a high tower which he caused to be built on aprecipitous headland, the Tor M5r, in Tory placed the girl in charge of twelve matrons, whowere strictly charged to prevent her from ever seeingthe face of man, or even learning that there were anybeings of a different sex from her own. In thisseclusion Ethlinn grew up—as all sequestered princessesdo—into a maiden of surpassing beauty. Now it happened that there were on the mainlandthree brothers, namely, Kian, Sawan, and Goban theSmith, the great armourer and artificer of Irish myth,who corresponds to Wayland Smith in Germaniclegend. Kian had a magical cow, whose milk was soabundant that every one longed to possess her, and hehad to keep her strictly under protection. Balor determined to possess himself of this day Kian and Sawan had come to the forge tohave some weapons made for them, bringing fine steelfor that purpose. Kian went into the forge, leavingno. Sawan gave the cows halter to the boy no THE COMING OF LUGH Sawan in charge of the cow. Balor now appeared onthe scene, taking on himself the form of a little red-headed boy, and told Sawan that he had overheard thebrothers inside the forge concocting a plan for using allthe fine steel for their own swords, leaving but commonmetal for that of Sawan. The latter, in a great rage,gave the cows halter to the boy and rushed into theforge to put a stop to this nefarious scheme. Balorimmediately carried off the cow, and dragged her acrossthe sea to Tory Island. Kian now determined to avenge himself on Balor,and to this end sought the advice of a Druidess namedBir5g. Dressing himself in womans garb, he waswafted by magical spells across the sea, where Birog, whoaccompanied him, represented to Ethlinns guardiansthat they were two noble ladies cast upon the shorein escaping from an abductor, and begged for were admitted ; Kian found means to ha
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