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. ' Don't you think, Mr. Borrow, I asked, ' it was the Tuatha-de-Danaan who did that ? Keatinge expressly says that they conquered the Firbolgs by that means.' (Mr. B., somewhat out of countenance), 'Oh! Aye 1 Keatinge is the authority ; a most extraordinary writer.' ' Well, I should call him the Geoffrey of Monmouth of Ireland.' (Mr. B., changing the venue), 'I delight in Norse-stories ; they are far grander than the Greek. There is the story of Olaf the Saint of Norway. Can anything be grande...r ? What a noble character ! ' ' But,' I said, ' what do you think of his putting all those poor Druids on the Skerry of Shrieks and leaving them to be drowned by the tide ? ' (Thereupon Mr. B. looked at me askant out of his gipsy eyes, as if he thought me an example of the evils of female education ! ) ' Well I well ! I forgot about the Skerry of Shrieks. Then there is the story of Beowulf the Saxon going out to sea in his burning ship to die.' ' Oh, Mr. Borrow ! that isn't a Saxon story at all.
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