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Fionn mac Cumhaill

" ... he heard far off in the deepening gloom the first notes of the fairy harp. Never such music was made by mortal hand, for it had in it sorrows that man has never felt, and joys for which man has no name, and it seemed as if a man listening to that music might burst from time into eternity..."

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston

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Fionn mac Cumhaill

" ... he heard far off in the deepening gloom the first notes of the fairy harp. Never such music was made by mortal hand, for it had in it sorrows that man has never felt, and joys for which man has no name, and it seemed as if a man listening to that music might burst from time into eternity..."

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston

#StephenReid #IrishFolklore #illustration #art #FionnMacCumhaill #FinnMcCool #mastodaoine

Fionn mac Cumhaill

" ... he heard far off in the deepening gloom the first notes of the fairy harp. Never such music was made by mortal hand, for it had in it sorrows that man has never felt, and joys for which man has no name, and it seemed as if a man listening to that music might burst from time into eternity..."

The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston

#StephenReid #IrishFolklore #illustration #art #FionnMacCumhaill #FinnMcCool #mastodaoine

...he searched hither and thither for a fortnight, till at last he found that island, which was an island indeed with the sea over it and around it and beneath it. There dwelt the red-haired ocean-nymphs in glittering palaces among the sea-flowers...

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston, et al, Illustrated by Stephen Reid

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