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قراءة كتاب The Washer of the Ford Legendary moralities and barbaric tales
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The Washer of the Ford Legendary moralities and barbaric tales
THE
WASHER OF THE FORD
LEGENDARY MORALITIES
AND BARBARIC TALES
NEW YORK
STONE & KIMBALL
M DCCC XCVI
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Pharais: A Romance of the Isles
The Mountain Lovers: A Romance
The Sin-Eater
IN PREPARATION:
Green Fire: A Romance
Lyric Rimes and Founsheen
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Prologue | 3 | |
| The Washer of the Ford | 25 | |
| St. Bride of the Isles | 51 | |
| The Fisher of Men | 97 | |
| The Last Supper | 117 | |
| The Dark Nameless One | 135 | |
| The Three Marvels of Hy | 149 | |
| I. | The Festival of the Birds | 151 |
| II. | The Sabbath of the Fishes and the Flies | 161 |
| III. | The Moon-Child | 170 |
| The Annir-Choille | 183 | |
| The Shadow-Seers | 237 | |
| I. | The Sight | 239 |
| II. | The Dark Hour of Fergus | 244 |
| III. | The White Fever | 254 |
| IV. | The Smoothing of the Hand | 260 |
| Seanachas | 267 | |
| The Song of the Sword | 271 | |
| The Flight of the Culdees | 289 | |
| Mircath | 301 | |
| The Laughter of Scathach the Queen | 309 | |
| Ula and Urla | 321 | |
“Here are told the stories of these pictures of the imagination, of magic and romance. Yet they were gravely chosen withal, and for reasons manifold.... What if they be but dreams? ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made of.’ What if they be but magic and romance? These things are not ancient and dead, but modern and increasing. For wherever a man learns power over Nature, there is Magic; wherever he carries out an ideal into Life there is Romance.”
Patrick Geddes:
“The Interpreter.”
PROLOGUE
(TO KATHIA)
Eternal Beauty wandering on her way.
The Rose upon the Rood of Time.
TO you, in your far-away home in Provence, I send these tales out of the remote North you love so well, and so well understand. The same blood is in our veins, a deep current somewhere beneath the tide that sustains us. We have meeting-places that none knows of; we understand what few can understand; and we share