“I came back,” said Flann, “to bring you with me.”
“But,” said she, “I cannot leave Crom Duv’s house.”
“I’ll show you how to cross the moat,” said he, “and we’ll both be glad to be going by the moving river.”
Tears came into Morag’s eyes. “I’d go with you, my dear,” said she, “but I cannot leave Crom Duv’s house until I get what I came for.”
“And what did you come for, Morag?” said he.
“I came,” said she, “for two of the rowan berries that grow on the Fairy Rowan Tree in Crom Duv’s court-yard. I know now that to get these berries is the hardest task in the world. Come within,” said she, “and if we sit long enough at the supper-board I will tell you my story.”
They sat at the supper-board long, and Morag told
The Story of Morag
IV
I was reared in the Spae-Woman’s house with two other girls, Baun and Deelish, my foster-sisters. The Spae-Woman’s house is on the top of a knowe, away from every place, and few ever came that way.