Myths and legends; the Celtic race (1910) (14783476225)

Identifier: mythslegendscelt00roll (find matches)
Title: Myths and legends ; the Celtic race
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920
Subjects: Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, Celtic
Publisher: Boston : Nickerson
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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that men begrudge to each other.Heavy and many were the loads they saw going to it,and all that was ground in it was carried away west-wards. So they crossed themselves and sailed away. The Island of the Black Mourners An island full of black people continually weepingand lamenting. One of the two remaining foster-brothers landed on it, and immediately turned blackand fell to weeping like the rest. Two others went tofetch him ; the same fate befell them. Four othersthen went with their heads wrapped in cloths, thatthey should not look on the land or breathe the airof the place, and they seized two of the lost ones andbrought them away perforce, but not the foster-brother.The two rescued ones could not explain their conductexcept by saying that they had to do as they saw othersdoing about them. The Island of the Four Fences Four fences of gold, silver, brass, and crystal dividedthis island into four parts, kings in one, queens inanother, warriors in a third, maidens in the fourth.3i«
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Half the corn of your country is ground here 318 THE ISLAND OF THE GLASS BRIDGE On landing, a maiden gave them food like cheese, thattasted to each man as he wished it to be, and anintoxicating liquor that put them asleep for threedays. When they awoke they were at sea in theirboat, and of the island and its inhabitants nothing wasto be seen. The Island of the Glass Bridge Here we come to one of the most elaborately wroughtand picturesque of all the incidents of the voyage. Theisland they now reached had on it a fortress with abrazen door, and a bridge of glass leading to it. Whenthey sought to cross the bridge it threw them back-ward.^ A woman came out of the fortress with a pailin her hand, and lifting from the bridge a slab of glassshe let down her pail into the water beneath, andreturned to the fortress. They struck on the brazenportcullis before them to gain admittance, but themelody given forth by the smitten metal plunged themin slumber till the morrow morn. Thrice over thishap