“It is Destiny, then, that is the Protagonist in the Celtic Drama … And it is Destiny, that sombre Demogorgon of the Gael, whose boding breath, whose menace, whose shadow glooms so much of the remote life I know, and hence glooms also this book of interpretations: for pages of life must either be interpretative or merely documentary, and these following pages have for the most part been written as by one who repeats, with curious insistence, a haunting, familiar, yet ever wild and remote air, whose obscure meanings he would fain reiterate, interpret.”
(From the Prologue to The Sin-Eater.)
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| Morag of the Glen | [11] |
| The Dàn-nan-Ròn | [61] |
| The Sin-Eater | [113] |
| The Ninth Wave | [167] |
| The Judgment o’ God | [185] |
| Green Branches | [201] |
| The Archer | [231] |
NOTE
In this volume all the tales, except the first and last, are re-issued from The Sin-Eater. “Morag of the Glen” is reprinted from the November issue of The Savoy; “The Archer” has not hitherto appeared in print. As the other tales have not been reset, they are, except in the matter of pagination and arrangement, necessarily unaltered.