
Stories
- Language
- English
- Collector
- Eileen Andrews
- Age
- 16
- Informant
- Patrick Andrews
When the "Danes" (Vikings) have been reduced to two, a father and a son, the Irish try to get from them the secret of how they made beer from heather. The father tells them to kill his son, and that he will then tell them the secret. When the son had been put to death, the old Dane then said to his captors: "Put me to death also, if ye so will, for I will never reveal the secret."
“Years ago a man came to this district with an army to drive out the Danes from the lios.”
“In olden times an old man lived out at Dunmuckrim. Anyone who had chilblains went to him...”
“During the Danish occupation of this country it was well known that they brewed a kind of beer from heather.”
“Tháinig beirt Lochlannach go hÉirinn fad ó shoin mar gheall rún déanta beórach a fhághail.”
“Long ago the last three of the Danes was left in Ireland.”