Ler and the swans by Harold Robert Millar 1910s
"Then Aoife got back into her chariot, and went to visit her father. She spent a moth in Bobh Dearg’s house, and told him the children were still with their father. When the time came for her to return, she told Lir that the children had decided to stay with their grandfather. But her deception could not go unnoticed forever. At length, Lir set out to fetch his children back, and both he and Bobh Dearg were shocked when each realized the other did not have the children. Both men raced back to Lir’s castle to confront Aoife, but on the way they heard the sound of children’s voices coming from the lake.
Lir searched high and low for his children along the lakeshore, but he could not find him; the only living things on the lake were four beautiful swans. But then the swans swam over to him, and he heard his children’s voices speaking out of the birds’ beaks."
-The Children of Lir
Lir searched high and low for his children along the lakeshore, but he could not find him; the only living things on the lake were four beautiful swans. But then the swans swam over to him, and he heard his children’s voices speaking out of the birds’ beaks."
-The Children of Lir
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| Ler and the swans by Harold Robert Millar 1910s. From: Squire, Charles (n.d.), “Chapter 1: The Gods in Exile”, in Celtic Myth And Legend Poetry And Romance, London: Gresham Publishing Company, page 144. Originally published under the title The Mythology of the British Islands, London: Blackie and Son, 1905. |
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