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039 - Manannan Mac-y-Leirr · Manx Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty eight of Manx Fairy Tales. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Sonya. Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight. Mananon Machie Lear Mananon Beg was son of Leir.
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  Speaker 1: He was the first that ever had man. But as
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  Speaker 1: it seemeth unto me, he himself was but a heathen.
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  Speaker 1: Twas not with his sword he kept her, nor with
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  Speaker 1: his arrows, nor his bow. But when he would see
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  Speaker 1: ships sailing, he hid her right round with a fog.
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  Speaker 1: He'd set a man upon a brow, you'd think there
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  Speaker 1: were a hundred there. And thus did wild Mananon guard
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  Speaker 1: that island with all its booty. The rent each paid
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  Speaker 1: out of the land was a bundle of green rushes,
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  Speaker 1: and that was on them for attacks throughout the country.
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  Speaker 1: Each John's eve, some went up with the rushes to
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  Speaker 1: the great mountain up at Barul. Others would leave the
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  Speaker 1: grass below with Mananon above Kimoul. In this way then
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  Speaker 1: they lived, I think myself their tribute very small. Without
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  Speaker 1: care or anxiety or labor to cause weariness. Old ballad
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  Speaker 1: Mananon mace Eeliir. Mananon mac Eelir, the son of the Sea,
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  Speaker 1: was the first ruler of men. He was a great wizard,
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  Speaker 1: and he was so powerful that afterwards he was looked
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  Speaker 1: on as a god. He had a great stone foot
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  Speaker 1: on Peel Island, and he could make one man standing
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  Speaker 1: on its battlements seemed to be a hundred. When he
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  Speaker 1: saw his enemies ships sailing, he would cover the island
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  Speaker 1: and round with a silver mist, so that it could
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  Speaker 1: not be seen. And if in spite of the mist
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  Speaker 1: his enemies came near, he would throw chips into the
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  Speaker 1: water and change them into ships. He was out walking
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  Speaker 1: one day on Barul when he saw the warships of
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  Speaker 1: the Northmen were in the Bay of Peel, And with
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  Speaker 1: that he made himself into the shape of three legs,
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  Speaker 1: and rowed like a wheel down from the mountain top
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  Speaker 1: as fast as the wind. It was about low tide
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  Speaker 1: in the harbor, and there ran a stream of sparkling
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  Speaker 1: water out to sea. Now the banks of the stream
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  Speaker 1: were marshy, and by the river's side grew a quantity
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  Speaker 1: of sedge with broad green leaves. So Mananon made little
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  Speaker 1: boats of the sedge a good number of them, and
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  Speaker 1: sailed his boats in the stream. And when the little
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  Speaker 1: fleet floated out of the harbor, he caused them to
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  Speaker 1: look like great ships of war, well manned with fighting men.
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  Speaker 1: Then terror seized on the Northmen when they saw the
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  Speaker 1: Manx fleet, and they cut their cables, hoisted sails, and
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  Speaker 1: cleared away as fast as they could, and Manannon and
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  Speaker 1: his island were left in peace. Thus did he keep man,
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  Speaker 1: and not with his sword or his bow and arrows.
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  Speaker 1: In his fort he had a great banqueting hall, where
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  Speaker 1: handsome boys made sweet music, and others played games and
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  Speaker 1: did great feats of strength. He had a horse called
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  Speaker 1: anbar of the flowing main, who could travel like the
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  Speaker 1: wind over sea, as well as land swift hounds that
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  Speaker 1: could catch any wild beast, and the sword called the Answerer,
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  Speaker 1: whose wound was always fatal. Besides his magic branch and
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  Speaker 1: his wonderful boat wave sweeper. He governed man well for
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  Speaker 1: long long years. Man's people had the best of good
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  Speaker 1: treatment from him, and all the rent he wanted was
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  Speaker 1: that each one was to bring a bundle of green
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  Speaker 1: rushes to him on the mountain of South brule on
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  Speaker 1: Midsummer eve. The island was a happy place, full of
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  Speaker 1: sunshine and all pleasant things, and no person there was
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  Speaker 1: old or tired or sad. Man's men have never forgotten Mananon,
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  Speaker 1: and this thousand years our fishermen have prayed to him
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  Speaker 1: the following prayer, as they have put out to sea.
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  Speaker 1: Even up to the days of our fathers. It has
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  Speaker 1: been used Mananon, beck magielear little Mananon, son of the Sea,
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  Speaker 1: who bless our island, bless us and our boat, going
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  Speaker 1: out well, coming in better with living and dead in
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  Speaker 1: our bode. End of Chapter thirty eight.