The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen
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The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen | ||
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Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 953 (The Old Robber Relates Three Adventures) | |
Country | Ireland | |
Published in | Hibernian Tales |
The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen is an Irish
It is
Synopsis
A dying queen made her husband promise to hide her sons from the new queen by raising them in an island on a lake. When the king remarried, a
The princes met the Black Thief of Sloan, who warned them of the danger but came with them. When they tried to steal the horse, it rang the bells so that it warned the Knight and they were caught.
The knight took them to a furnace, to boil them, from the oldest to the youngest of the princes, and then the Black Thief. The Black Thief said that he had once been in more danger than the oldest and escaped with his life. The Knight said that if he told him that story, he would pardon the oldest son. The Black Thief told that he had once seen three
The knight pardoned the oldest son and set about to boil the second.
The Black Thief said he might yet escape, and the knight said that if he had been in another such great danger, he would pardon the second. The Black Thief told he had heard how a rich bishop had been buried with jewels and rich robes, and he went to rob the grave. He heard footsteps and lost courage. Then he met with a dark figure, which he shot at, and found it was one of the clergy, who had already rifled the tomb. Some guards came. He held up the body, and the guards shot at it, and ran into the tomb to ensure he had no others with him. The Black Thief escaped once they were past him.
The knight pardoned the second son and said he would pardon the youngest for yet another such tale.
The Black Thief told how he had once come to a castle where a woman held a child and wept. She told him that a
An old woman told the knight that he was the baby and she the woman, and the thief the man who had saved his life. They told the knight why they had to get the horse, and to spare their lives, he gave him it. The queen heard them coming, and threw herself from the tower and died.
Variants
The
Three variants were collected in
"The Byzantine Brigand," told by Angus MacLellan, was collected for Stories from South Uist.[5]
A variant from Australia, The Witch's Tale, appears in the autobiography of Simon McDonald.[6]
A Canadian variant, "The Black Thief" was given by Lauchie MacLellan of Nova Scotia.[7]
See also
- Conall Cra Bhuidhe
- How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon
References
- ^ "The Red Fairy Book". Gutenberg.
- ^ Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: Animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, and realistic tales, with an introduction. FF Communications. p. 592.
- ^ Hudson, Wilson M. Tire Shrinker to Dragster, book, 1968; Austin, Texas. p. 103 - 116.
- ^ Halpert, Herbert; Widdowson, J. D. A. (1996). Folktales of Newfoundland: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition. Garland Publishing, Inc. pp. 568–606.
- ^ Campbell, John (1961). Stories from South Uist. Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 32–42.
- ^ Anderson, Hugh (1974). Time Out of Mind: Simon McDonald of Creswick. Melbourne: National Press PTY. pp. 136–142.
- ^ Shaw, John (2000). Brìgh an Òrain/A Story in Every Song. The Songs and Tales of Lauchie MacLellan. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 306–325.