Identifier: phynodderreeothe00call (find matches)
Title: The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Callow, Edward Watson, W. J., ill
Subjects: Tales, Manx Fairy tales, English
Publisher: London : J. Dean and Son
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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"And," continued King Olave, withdrawing the hissing blade from the
body as it fell at his daughter's feet, and turning towards the door, "thus
do I punish you my one-legged travelling companion, and prove the temper
of this wondrous sword."
Before the now affrighted Hiallus-nan-urd could reach the door again
to make his escape, the king made one cut at him, and, striking on the top
of his head, the sword went down through his body, severing it in two.
No sooner had the divided hammerman fallen to the ground than the
white-spotted raven pounced upon one half. Seizing the still quivering
heart, he tore it out, and flew off with it in the direction of the Isle of Man,
croaking quite triumphantly as he passed out of the open window.
The fair Emergaid had swooned directly she saw her father fall, and
thus was spared the dreadful sight of the hammerman's fate.
To her the twice-saved monarch now turned his attention, and raising
her gently in his arms, he bore her from the smithy, gazing with admiration
on her lovely face. As he did so he felt his own heart struck by as hot
and sharp a pang as that by which he had slain her father.
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THE DEATH OF LOAN MACLIBHUIN, THE DARK SMITH.

84 KING OLAVE THE SECOND.
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At first the wooing of King Olave Goddardson did not progress. Grief
for the loss of her father forbade her listening to the love of him who had
made her an orphan. Still her first sight of him, when he proved how
stalwart a knight he was by cleaving her father's anvil, had more than
favourably impressed her, and she could not but admire so gallant a
suitor; so as he was as resolute in love as in other matters, he finally won
her consent and made the best amends he possibly could for depriving her
of one protector in her father by becoming himself her protector and her
husband. Suffice to say that his frank and manly bearing won her heart, and she
consented to share with him the royal honours and duties of his little island
kingdom. King Olave conducted his lovely bride with a large fleet in great state to
the Isle of Man, where he had her crowned queen; and though history is
silent on the subject, we may naturally conclude they lived happily together.
From the union were descended a long line of kings of Man, one of
whom was the great Olave the Black, the boldest sea rover of his day.
The last descendants of Olave Goddardson and Emergaid the Fair, who
reigned in Mona, was Magnus, and in him ended the royal race of Goddard
Crovan, surnamed the Conqueror.


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