Myths & legends of the Celtic race by Thomas William Rolleston

Author:Thomas William Rolleston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781440051920
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 1911-11-15T06:00:00+00:00

Seven days was Finn absent, and he drove the Northmen

[pg 268] from the shores of Erin. But on the eighth day

he returned, and when he entered his dun he saw

trouble in the eyes of his men, and of their fair womenfolk,

and Saba was not on the rampart expecting his

return. So he bade them tell him what had chanced,

and they said:

"Whilst thou, our father and lord, wert afar off

smiting the foreigner, and Saba looking ever down the

pass for thy return, we saw one day as it were the likeness

of thee approaching, and Bran and Skolawn at thy

heels. And we seemed also to hear the notes of the

Fian hunting-call blown on the wind. Then Saba

hastened to the great gate, and we could not stay her, so

eager was she to rush to the phantom. But when she

came near she halted and gave a loud and bitter cry,

and the shape of thee smote her with a hazel wand, and

lo, there was no woman there any more, but a deer.

Then those hounds chased it, and ever as it strove to

reach again the gate of the dun they turned back. We

all now seized what arms we could and ran out to drive

away the enchanter, but when we reached the place there

was nothing to be seen, only still we heard the rushing

of flying feet and the baying of dogs, and one thought

it came from here, and another from there, till at last

the uproar died away and all was still. What we could

do, O Finn, we did; Saba is gone."

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