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The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland

CHAPTER XV
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The pair were Mananan, god of the sea, and Fand his wife, of whom a tale of great interest is told in the Cuchulain Cycle of legends.

The sea-cloak of Mananan is the subject of a magnificent piece of descriptive poetry in Ferguson's CONGAL.
Cormac then entered a great hall with pillars of cedar and many-coloured silken hangings on the walls.

In the midst of it was a fire-place whereon the host threw a huge log, and shortly afterwards brought in a young pig which Cormac cut up to roast before the fire.
He first put one quarter of the pig to roast, and then his host said to him, "Tell us a tale, stranger, and if it be a true one the quarter will be done as soon as the tale is told." "Do thou begin," said Cormac, "and then thy wife, and after that my turn will come." "Good," said the host.

"This is my tale.

I have seven of these swine, and with their flesh the whole world could be fed.


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