Reading Notes: Celtic Tales, Part B

 Celtic Tales by Joseph Jacobs

Beth Gellert

- Now Prince Llewelyn had a little son a year old with whom Gellert used to play, and a terrible thought crossed the Prince's mind that made him rush towards the child's nursery.

*Yikes, this is intense.*

- At last he felt sure the dog had destroyed his child, and, shouting to Gellert, "Monster, thou hast devoured my child," he drew out his sword and plunged it in the greyhound's side, who fell with a deep yell and still gazing in his master's eyes.

*Oh no! This is so sad.*

Andrew Coffey

- MY grandfather, Andrew Coffey, was known to the whole barony as a quiet, decent man. And if the whole barony knew him, he knew the whole barony, every inch, hill and dale, bog and pasture, field and covert.

*I like this description of the old man. It's sweet.*

-But when my grandfather clapped eyes on him, he knew him for Patrick Rooney, and all the world knew he'd gone overboard fishing one night long years before. 

*Creepy*

- "You'd better not," said Patrick, and he gave him a cock of his eye, and a grin of his teeth, that just sent a shiver down Andrew Coffey's back. Well, it was odd that here he should be in a thick wood he had never set eyes upon, turning Patrick Rooney upon a spit. 

*What is this story?? Ha ha.*

Celtic Tales (Source: Needpix)

Bibliography: Celtic Tales by Joseph Jacobs. Website: Mythology and Folklore UN-Textbook.