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Author's Note: This rendering of the Breton legend ‘Sant Efflamm hag ar Roue Arzur' is based on the ballad of that name given by the late Vicomte Hersart de 1a Villemarqu~ in the Barzaz-Breiz.—i.e., Ballads of Brittany (1839).

Tradition of evergreen garlands at Christmas

Author's Note: The following story, of which I here give a translation, is no doubt largely due to the vivid imagination of some itinerant mendicant working in his own interest.

Dermid and Grainne love each other despite desire of King Finn

Dermot destroys Murchard O’Byrne, King of Tir-Cullen of Ireland, 25 Nov 1133, and 17 other rivals

“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The…

Ballad of Sir Robert, the Laird of Lag, who captures a hill lad to make him tell where Tam Glen is; he refuses; Robert kills him, to horror of his men; mother comes and cleans body

Angus Ogue is older than all the gods; he is their soul; he is eternal Spring/Youth/Hope

3 stanzas, ababab