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Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Laughing Knights' Island Folktale (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   back his wits and he put all his weight on the bangle and tightened it round his neck. The roars of the brute would make anyone weak. There was a tree with extending branches. He ran for the tree and threw his end across the bough, caught it on the other side and ran on. He was a very heavy man.
   The beast was still following him, but when he came as far as the branch, Jack gave a pull and lifted him off his front feet, and his neck was pulled against the bough. Jack pulled and then tightened and held on till the brute was choked.
   Then Jack released the pull on the bangle and the monster dropped to the ground dead.
   '' Well, by this and by that, but that was a close shave says Jack
   '' but you'll never kill another cow, you ugly '' brute, and long life to the Queen of the Sea, for only for your bangle, '' I was done,
   and now for the beheading. ''
   Jack fell to and cut off his head. It was nearly as thick as a barrel, but with his hatchet and his heavy sword, he got it done in time

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   B. O Grady

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

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