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The Best of All
4 quatrains: good things in life = wine, women, friendship; but only thing to count on is friend
The Black Month
Author's Note: In parts of Brittany it is the belief that on the Eve of All Souls, the Dead are permitted to return to the world; but that, being shapeless and voiceless, they enter into the bodies of the beggars who are called by the people the '…
The Story of Castaille Dubh
tale of The Black Castle, Athole hills, in Scotland, during civil war. Earl of Athole loses possession, earldom bestowed upon an alien from the south, Sir Walter Stewart, who abuses the people; “With the New Year came one Uninvited…
Dermot's Spring
Dermot destroys Murchard O’Byrne, King of Tir-Cullen of Ireland, 25 Nov 1133, and 17 other rivals
The Love-Kiss of Dermid and Grannie
Dermid and Grainne love each other despite desire of King Finn
Frost
Kailyard fiction
The Mother of Jesus
story of a young mother whose infant dies, but Mother of God takes him
A Winter Song
3 quatrains, abab