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037 - The Red Etin · Blue Fairy Book

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  Speaker 1: The red etin of The Blue Fairy Book. This is
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  Speaker 1: Urg recording by Scott Mather. The Blue Fairy Book by
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Lang the red etin There were aunce tis widows
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  Speaker 1: that lived on a small bit of ground which they
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  Speaker 1: rented from a farmer. One of them had twa sons,
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  Speaker 1: and the other had done and by and by it
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  Speaker 1: was time for the wife that had twa sons to
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  Speaker 1: send them away to seek their fortune. So she told
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  Speaker 1: her eldest son a day to take a can and
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  Speaker 1: bring her water from the well, that she might bake
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  Speaker 1: a cake for him. And however much or however little
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  Speaker 1: water he might bring, the cake would be a great
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  Speaker 1: or small accordingly, and that cake was to be all
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  Speaker 1: that she could gee him when he went on his travels.
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  Speaker 1: The lad gave way with the can to the well
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  Speaker 1: and filled it with water, and then came home again.
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  Speaker 1: But the can being broken, the maced part of the
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  Speaker 1: water had run out before he got back, so his
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  Speaker 1: cake was very small. Yet small as it was, his
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  Speaker 1: mother asked if he was willing to take the half
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  Speaker 1: of it with her blessing, telling him that if he
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  Speaker 1: chose rather to have the hail he would only get
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  Speaker 1: it where a curse. The young man, thinking he might
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  Speaker 1: hate to travel far away and not knowing when or
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  Speaker 1: how he might get other provisions, said he would like
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  Speaker 1: to hat the hail cake come of his mother's Mallison
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  Speaker 1: would like, so she gave him the hail cake and
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  Speaker 1: her malice in a lang wit. Then he took his
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  Speaker 1: brother aside and gave him a knife to keep till
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  Speaker 1: he should come back, desiring him to look at it
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  Speaker 1: every morning, and as long as it continued to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: then he might be shoe sure that the owner of
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  Speaker 1: it was well. But if it grew dim and rusty,
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  Speaker 1: then for certain some ill had befallen him. So the
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  Speaker 1: young man set out to seek his fortune, and he
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  Speaker 1: gained other day and other next day, And on the
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  Speaker 1: third day, in the afternoon, he came up to where
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd was sitting with a flock of sheep, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave up to the shepherd and asked him what
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  Speaker 1: a sheep belang to, and a man answered. The red
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  Speaker 1: etin of Ireland once lived in Bellagan and stole King
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm's daughter, the King of fair Scotland. He beats her,
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  Speaker 1: he binds her, he lays her on a band, and
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  Speaker 1: every day he dings her with a bright silver Wand
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  Speaker 1: like Julian de Roman, he's one that fears no man.
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  Speaker 1: It said, there's unpredestined to be his mortal foe, but
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  Speaker 1: that man is yet unborn, and lang may it be sore.
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  Speaker 1: The young man then went on his journey, and he
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  Speaker 1: had not gone far when he spied an old man
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  Speaker 1: with white locks herding a flock of swine. And he
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  Speaker 1: gave up to him and asked whose swine these were?
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  Speaker 1: When a man answered, the red Eton of Ireland Aunce,
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  Speaker 1: lived in Bellegan, and stole King Malcolm's daughter, the King
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  Speaker 1: of fair Scotland. He beats her, he binds her, he
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  Speaker 1: lays her on a band, and every day he dings
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  Speaker 1: her with a bright silver Wand like Julian de Roman,
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  Speaker 1: he's one it fears no man. It's said, there's unpredestined
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  Speaker 1: to be his mortal foe, but that man is yet unborn,
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  Speaker 1: and lang may it be so. Then the young man
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  Speaker 1: gate on a bit further and came to another very
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  Speaker 1: old man herding goats, and when he asked whose goats
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  Speaker 1: they were, the answer was the red etin of Ireland.
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  Speaker 1: Aunts lived in Bellegan and stole King Malcolm's daughter, the
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  Speaker 1: King of Scotland. He beats her, he binds her, he
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  Speaker 1: lays her on a band, and every day he dings
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  Speaker 1: her with a bright silver Wand like Julie de Roman,
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  Speaker 1: he's one at fears no man. It's said, there's unpredestined
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  Speaker 1: to be his mortal foe. But that man is yet unborn,
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  Speaker 1: and lang may it be so. This old man also
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  Speaker 1: told him to beware of the next beasts that he
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  Speaker 1: should meet, for they were of a very different kind
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  Speaker 1: from any he had yet seen. So the young man
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  Speaker 1: went on and by and by he saw a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of very dreadful beasts ilk anadem with twa heads, and
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  Speaker 1: on every head four horns. And he was so frightened
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  Speaker 1: and ran away from them as fast as he could.
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  Speaker 1: And glad was he when he came to a castle
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  Speaker 1: that stood on a hillock, with a door standing wide
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  Speaker 1: to the wall, and he gave into the castle for shelter,
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  Speaker 1: and there he on old wife sitting beside the kitchen fire,
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  Speaker 1: He asked the wife if he might stay there for
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  Speaker 1: the night, as he was tired with a lang journey,
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  Speaker 1: and the wife said he might, but it was not
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  Speaker 1: a good place for him to be in, as it
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  Speaker 1: belonged to the red Etin, who was a very terrible
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  Speaker 1: beast with three heads that spared no living man he
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  Speaker 1: could get hold of. The young man would have gone away,
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  Speaker 1: but he was afraid of the beasts on the outside
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  Speaker 1: of the castle, so he beseeched the old woman to
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  Speaker 1: conceal him as well as she could, and not to
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  Speaker 1: tell the etten that he was there. He thought, if
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  Speaker 1: he could put over the night, he might get away
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and without meeting with the beasts, and
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  Speaker 1: so escape. But he had not been long in his
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  Speaker 1: heidi hole before the awful eten came in. And nay,
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  Speaker 1: sooner was he in than he was heard crying, Snarkbot
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  Speaker 1: and snark Paine. I find the smell of an air man,
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  Speaker 1: be he living or be he dead? His heart this
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  Speaker 1: night shall kitchen my bread. The monster soon found the
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  Speaker 1: poor young man and pulled him from his hole, And
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  Speaker 1: when he had got him out, he told him that
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  Speaker 1: if he could answer him three questions, his life should
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  Speaker 1: be spared. The first was whether Ireland or Scotland was
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  Speaker 1: first inhabited. The second was whether man was made for
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  Speaker 1: woman or woman for man. The third was whether men
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  Speaker 1: or brutes were made first. The lad not being able
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  Speaker 1: to answer one of these questions, the red etin took
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  Speaker 1: a mace and knocked him on the head and turned
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  Speaker 1: him into a pillar of stone. On the morning after
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  Speaker 1: this happened, the younger brother took out the knife to
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  Speaker 1: look at it, and he was grieved to find it
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  Speaker 1: a brown with rust. He told his mother that the
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  Speaker 1: time was now come for him to go away upon
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  Speaker 1: his travels. Also so she requested him to take the
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  Speaker 1: can to the well for water, that she might bake
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  Speaker 1: a cake for him. The can being broken, he brought
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  Speaker 1: him as little water as the other had done, and
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  Speaker 1: the cake was as little. She asked whether he would
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  Speaker 1: have the hail cake with her Mallison or the half
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  Speaker 1: we're blessing, And like his brother, he thought it best
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  Speaker 1: to have the hail cake come of the mallicon what
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  Speaker 1: might so he gave away, and everything happened to him
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  Speaker 1: that had happened to his brother. The other widow and
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  Speaker 1: her son heard of all that had happened for a fairy,
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  Speaker 1: and the young man determined that he would go also
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  Speaker 1: upon his travels and see if he could do anything
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  Speaker 1: to relieve his twaff friends. So his mother gave him
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  Speaker 1: a can to go to the well and bring home
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  Speaker 1: water that she might bake him a cake for his journey.
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  Speaker 1: And he gazed, and as he was bringing hing the water,
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  Speaker 1: a raven or a boony's head, cried him to look,
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  Speaker 1: and he would see that the water was running out.
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  Speaker 1: And he was a young man of sense, and seeing
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  Speaker 1: the water running out, he took some clay and patched
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  Speaker 1: up the holes so that he brought home enough water
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  Speaker 1: to bake a large cake. When his mother put it
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  Speaker 1: to him to take the half cake with her blessing,
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  Speaker 1: he took it in preference to having the hail with
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  Speaker 1: her malicon. And yet the half was bigger than what
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  Speaker 1: the other lads had got aught together, so he gave
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  Speaker 1: away on his journey, And after he had traveled a
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  Speaker 1: far away, he met with an old woman that asked
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  Speaker 1: him if he would give her a bit of his bannock,
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  Speaker 1: and he said he would gladly do that, and so
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  Speaker 1: he gave her a piece to the bannock, and for
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  Speaker 1: that she gave him a magical wand that she said
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  Speaker 1: might yet be of service to him if he took
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  Speaker 1: care to use it rightly. Then the old woman, who
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  Speaker 1: was a fairy, told him a great deal that what
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  Speaker 1: happened to him, and what he ought to do in
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  Speaker 1: all circumstances. And after that she vanished in an instant
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  Speaker 1: at his sight. He gat on a great way further.
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  Speaker 1: And then he came up to the old man herding
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  Speaker 1: the sheep. And when he asked whose sheep these were,
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  Speaker 1: the answer was the red Eton of Ireland once lived
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  Speaker 1: in Bellagin and stole King Malcolm's daughter, the King of
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  Speaker 1: fair Scotland. He beats her, he binds her, he lays
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  Speaker 1: her on a band, and every day he dings her
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  Speaker 1: with a bright silver Wand like Julian do Roman, he's
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  Speaker 1: one that fears no man. But now I fear his
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  Speaker 1: end is near, and destiny at hand, and you're to
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  Speaker 1: be I plainly see the heir of all his land.
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  Speaker 1: The young man then went on his journey, and he'd
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  Speaker 1: not gone far when he had spied an old man
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  Speaker 1: with white lochs herding a flock of swine. And he
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  Speaker 1: get up to him and asked whose swine these were.
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  Speaker 1: Man answered the red Aden of Ireland, once lived in Bellagan,
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  Speaker 1: and stole King Malcolm's daughter, the King of fair Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: He beats her, he binds her, he lays her on
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  Speaker 1: a band, and every day he dings her with a
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  Speaker 1: white silver Wand like Julian de Roman, he's one that
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  Speaker 1: fears no man. But now I fear his end is near,
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  Speaker 1: and destiny at hand, and your to be, I plainly
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  Speaker 1: see the heir of all his land. Then the young
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  Speaker 1: man get on a bit further and came to the
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  Speaker 1: very old man herding goats, And he asked whose goats
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  Speaker 1: they were, and the answer was the red Etin of Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: once lived in Belligan, and stole King Malcolm's daughter, the
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  Speaker 1: King of fair Scotland. He beats her, he binds her,
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  Speaker 1: he lays her on a band, and every day he
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  Speaker 1: dings her with a bright silver Wand like Julian the Roman,
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  Speaker 1: he's one that fears no man. But now I fear
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  Speaker 1: his end is near, and destiny at hand, and your
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  Speaker 1: to be, I plainly see the heir of all his land.
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  Speaker 1: This old man also told him to beware of the
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  Speaker 1: next beasts that he should meet, for they were of
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  Speaker 1: a very different kind from any he had yet seen.
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  Speaker 1: When he came to the place where the monstrous beasts
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  Speaker 1: were standing, he did not stop nor run away, but
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  Speaker 1: went boldly through among them. One came up, roaring with
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  Speaker 1: open mouth to devour him, when he struck it with
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  Speaker 1: his wand and laid it in an instant dead at
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  Speaker 1: his feet. He soon came to the Etens castle, where
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  Speaker 1: he knocked and was admitted. The old woman that sat
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  Speaker 1: by the fire warned him of the terrible Eton and
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  Speaker 1: what had been the fate of his twapriths, but he
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  Speaker 1: was not to be daunted. The monsters soon came in, saying,
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  Speaker 1: snark Bart and the snark bane, I find the smell
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  Speaker 1: of an earthly man. Be he living or be he dead,
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  Speaker 1: His heart shall be kitchen to my bread. He quickly
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  Speaker 1: espied the young man and made him come forth on
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  Speaker 1: the floor, and then he put the three questions to him.
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  Speaker 1: But the young man had been told everything by the
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  Speaker 1: good fairy, so he was able to answer all the questions.
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  Speaker 1: When the Eeten found this, he knew that his power
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  Speaker 1: was gone. The young man then took up the axe
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  Speaker 1: and hewed off the monster's three heads. He next asked
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  Speaker 1: the old woman to show him where the king's daughters lay,
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  Speaker 1: And the old woman took him upstairs and opened a
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  Speaker 1: great many doors, and out of every door came a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful lady who had been imprisoned there by the Eeten,
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  Speaker 1: and another ladies was the king's daughter. She also took
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  Speaker 1: him down into a low room, and there stood two
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  Speaker 1: stone pillars that he had only to touch with his
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  Speaker 1: Wand when his two friends and neighbors started into life
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  Speaker 1: and the hail of the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance,
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  Speaker 1: which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent
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  Speaker 1: young man. Next day they all set out for the
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  Speaker 1: king's court, and a gallant company they made, and the
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  Speaker 1: king married his daughter to the young man that had
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  Speaker 1: delivered her, and gave a noble's daughter to ilk honor
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  Speaker 1: the other young men, And so they all lived happily
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  Speaker 1: all the rest of their days. End of the red
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  Speaker 1: etin