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026 - Teeval Princess of the Ocean · Manx Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty five of Manx Fairy Tales. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Nadeu Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Tivel, Princess of the Ocean. In the old days, Klain,
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  Speaker 1: the Smith of the Gods, was living in the Isle
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  Speaker 1: of Man. It was the time when Conkubar was at
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  Speaker 1: the court of the King of Ulster and had nothing
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  Speaker 1: but the sword in his hand. He was a fine,
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  Speaker 1: handsome young man, and he had made up his mind
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  Speaker 1: to make himself a king. So he went one day
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  Speaker 1: to the Druid of Clogger to ask him what he
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  Speaker 1: had best do. Go thy way, said the Druid, to
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  Speaker 1: the Isle of Man. There thou wilt find the great
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  Speaker 1: smith Kline. Get him to make thee a sword and
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  Speaker 1: a spear and a shield, and with these thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: win the kingdom of Ulster. Conkubar went away and hired
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  Speaker 1: a boat and put out to sea. He landed in
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  Speaker 1: Man and made straight for Klaine's smithy. It was night
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  Speaker 1: when he got there, and the red glow of the
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  Speaker 1: furnace shone out into the dark. He could hear from
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  Speaker 1: inside the smithy the roar of the bellows and the
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  Speaker 1: clanging of the hammer on the anvil. When he came near,
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  Speaker 1: a great dog as large as a calf began to
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  Speaker 1: bay and to growl like thunder, and brought his master out.
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  Speaker 1: Who art thou, young man, said he o Kulaine, cried Conkubar,
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  Speaker 1: It is from the Druid of Clogherd that I come.
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  Speaker 1: And he bade me ask THEE to make me a
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  Speaker 1: sword and a spear and a shield. For only weapons
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  Speaker 1: of thy making can I win the kingdom of Ulster.
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  Speaker 1: Coolaine's face grew black at first, but after he had
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  Speaker 1: gazed for a while at Conkubar, he saw that he
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  Speaker 1: had the look about him of one who would go far,
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  Speaker 1: and he said it shall be done for THEE, that
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  Speaker 1: thou must wait, for the work is long. So Coolaine
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  Speaker 1: began to make the weapons, and Conkubar waited in the island.
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  Speaker 1: Early one brave morning in May, when the sun had
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  Speaker 1: just risen over Kronkieyila, he was walking on the strand,
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  Speaker 1: wondering to himself how much longer Kolaine would be making
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  Speaker 1: his weapons, and thinking it was full time for him
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  Speaker 1: to return. The tide was going out and the sun
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  Speaker 1: was shining on the wet sand. Suddenly he saw something
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  Speaker 1: flashing at the edge of the waves a few paces
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  Speaker 1: from him. He ran up to it, and behold it
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  Speaker 1: was was the most beautiful woman he had ever put
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  Speaker 1: sight on. Fast asleep. Her hair was golden like the
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  Speaker 1: gorse in bloom, her skin whiter than the foam of
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  Speaker 1: the sea, her lips red as the coral, and her
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  Speaker 1: cheeks rosy like the little clouds that were flying before
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  Speaker 1: the face of the rising sun. The fringe of her
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  Speaker 1: dress of many colored seaweeds, rose and fell with the
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  Speaker 1: ebb and flow of the waves. Pearls gleamed on her
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  Speaker 1: neck and arms. Concubar stood and looked on her. He
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  Speaker 1: knew that she was a mermaid, and that as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she woke, she would slip back into the ocean
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  Speaker 1: and be lost to him. So he bound her fast
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  Speaker 1: with his girdle. Then she awoke and opened her eyes,
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  Speaker 1: which were blue as the sea, And when she saw
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  Speaker 1: that she was bound, she cried out with terror. Loose
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  Speaker 1: me man, loose me. Concubar did not answer, so she
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  Speaker 1: said again, loose me, I beg THEE, in a voice
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  Speaker 1: as sweet as the music of haw More, the fairy fiddler.
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  Speaker 1: By this time Concubar was feeling that he would give
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  Speaker 1: all he had to keep her. He answered, trembling, woman,
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  Speaker 1: my heart, who art thou? I am Tivil, Princess of
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  Speaker 1: the Ocean, said she set me free, I pray thee.
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  Speaker 1: But if I set THEE free, said Concubar, thou wilt
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  Speaker 1: leave me. I cannot stay with thee. Concubar, she cried,
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  Speaker 1: set me free, and I will give THEE a precious gift.
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  Speaker 1: I will loose thee, answered Concubar. It is not for
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  Speaker 1: the gift, but because I cannot resist THEE. He unfastened
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  Speaker 1: the girdle from her, and she said, my gift to
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  Speaker 1: THEE is this. Go now to Kolaine, who is making
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  Speaker 1: thy shield, and tell him that Tevil, Princess of the Ocean,
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  Speaker 1: bids him to put her figure on the shield and
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  Speaker 1: round it to grave her name. Then thou shalt wear
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  Speaker 1: it always in battle. And when thou shalt look on
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  Speaker 1: my face and call my name, thy enemy's strength shall
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  Speaker 1: go from them, and shall come into thee and thy men.
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  Speaker 1: When she had said this, she waved her white arm
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  Speaker 1: to Concubar and plunged into the waves. He looked sadly
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  Speaker 1: for a long time at the spot where she had disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: and then walked slowly to the forge of Coolaine and
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  Speaker 1: gave him the message. Koulaine finished the mighty shield, as
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  Speaker 1: the princess had said, and forged also for Concubar a
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  Speaker 1: golden hilted magic sword and a spear set with precious stones.
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  Speaker 1: Then Concubar and his crimson mantle and white gold embroidered tunic,
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  Speaker 1: and armed with his great shield and his mighty weapons,
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  Speaker 1: went back to Ireland. All that the Princess of the
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  Speaker 1: Ocean had said came true. When he went into battle,
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  Speaker 1: he looked at the beautiful face in his shield and
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  Speaker 1: cried helped evel. Then he felt strength come into him,
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  Speaker 1: like the strength of a giant, and he cut his
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  Speaker 1: enemies down like grass. Before long he was famous all
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  Speaker 1: over Ireland for his great deeds, and in the end
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  Speaker 1: he became King of Ulster. Then he invited Kulaine to
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  Speaker 1: come and live in his kingdom, and gave him the
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  Speaker 1: plain of Murthami to dwell in, but he never again
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  Speaker 1: saw the lovely mermaid end of Chapter twenty five.