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Long Ago There Dwelt In Ireland The Race Called By The Name Of De Danaan, Or People Of The Goddess Dana. They Were A Folk Who Delighted In Beauty And Gaiety, And In Fighting And Feasting, And Loved To Go Gloriously Apparelled, And To Have Their Weapons And Household Vessels Adorned With Jewels And Gold. They Were Also Skilled In Magic Arts, And Their Harpers Could Make Music So Enchanting That A Man Who Heard It Would Fight, Or Love, Or Sleep, Or Forget All Earthly Things, As They Who Touched The Strings Might Will Him To Do. In Later Times The Danaans Had To Dispute The Sovranty Of Ireland With Another Race, The Children Of Miled, Whom Men Call The Milesians, And After Much Fighting They Were Vanquished. Then, By Their Sorceries And Enchantments, When They Could Not Prevail Against The Invaders, They Made Themselves Invisible, And They Have Dwelt Ever Since In The Fairy Mounds And Raths Of Ireland, Where Their Shining Palaces Are Hidden From Mortal Eyes. They Are Now Called The Shee, Or Fairy Folk Of Erinn, And The Faint Strains Of Unearthly Music That May Be Heard At Times By Those Who Wander At Night Near To Their Haunts Come From The Harpers And Pipers Who Play For The People O

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Author

Thomas William Hazen Rolleston

Publisher

Library of Alexandria

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781465592408

Category

nonfiction