Title Page : THE PHYNODDERREE AND OTHER LEGENDS OF THE ISLE OF MAN. BY EDWARD CALLOW. WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS. Drawn Expressly For This Work, And Engraved On Wood, By W. J. Watson. J. Dean & Son London [1882] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned and proofed at sacredspiral.com, by Eliza Yetter, April, 2005...
The Buggane's Vow. Chapter Ii : p. 92 CHAPTER II. EEL Harbour once cleared, all sail was set on to the vessel, and as the evening closed in she was well away from the land of Mona, making a fair way towards the Irish coast--Brodar Merune pacing the deck, and chuckling to himself as he contemplated his cleverness in overreaching...
Tom Kewley And The Lannanshee. Chapter Ii : p. 39 CHAPTER II OM KEWLEY had important business at Douglas that necessitated his proceeding there a day or so after the events of the preceding chapter. A settlement between the crew of a herring-boat that he had been working with during the past season and the purchasers of their fish w...
King Olave The Second And The Great Sword. Part 02 : p. 77 CHAPTER III. AOCH'S extraordinary execution, with the particulars of King Olave's steadfast courage and escape, soon became the topic of conversation far and wide, and was the theme of many a travelling minstrel's song. In time the news reached the shores of Norway and the city of Drontheim...
King Olave The Second And The Great Sword. Part 04 : p. 61 KING OLAVE THE SECOND AND THE GREAT SWORD MACABUIN. A TALE OF THE ISLE OF MAN p. 62 p. 63 CHAPTER I N the latter part of the eleventh and the early part of the twelfth centuries, the Isle of Man was the home of the boldest race of rovers that scoured the seas; and one of the Manx monarchs...
Untitled : Title Page Preface Contents Mona's Isle THE PHYNODDERREE: A TALE OF FAIRY LOVE Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V TOM KEWLEY AND THE LANNANSHEE Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV KING OLAVE THE SECOND AND THE GREAT SWORD MACABUIN Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter...
The Buggane's Vow. Chapter I : p. 85 THE BUGGANE'S VOW: A LEGEND OF ST. TRINION'S CHURCH. p. 86 p. 87 CHAPTER I. ERY many years ago, during the period when that redoubtable warrior William the Norman was following up his successful battle of Hastings, and making good his possession of the good land of England, there w...
The Phynodderree. A Tale Of Fairy Love. Chapter I : p. xi "Then take the air, With a butterfly pair Linked to a petal blue."--See page 53 p. 1 THE PHYNODDERREE: A TALE OF FAIRY LOVE CHAPTER I. "I must not think, I may not gaze On what I am, on what I was." BYRON. HE wide open Bay of Ramsey, on the northern coast of the Isle of Man, is the largest...
The Phynodderree. A Tale Of Fairy Love. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II NE summer evening Kitty was seated as usual under the shade of the fuchsia trees at the cottage door, her delicate fingers busy with the yarn, while her spinning-wheel whirled round and round with a pleasant and homely hum, its treadle worked with the prettiest little foot in the isl...
King Olave The Second And The Great Sword : p. 80 CHAPTER IV. ING OLAVE and the one-legged hammerman journeyed on day after day, neither one gaining much advantage over the other. They both reached the Point of Ayre, the northernmost coast of the Isle of Man, the day after leaving Peel Castle. Here each had a boat in readiness to cross...
The Phynodderree. A Tale Of Fairy Love. Chapter : p. 12 CHAPTER III VERY evening, punctually as the twilight hour approached, did Kitty Kerruish feel an irresistible fascination steal over her that drew her to the trysting-place under the blue rowan tree in the Magher-Glass of Glen Aldyn to meet her elfin lover; and there she would sit, listening...
The Buggane's Vow. Chapter Vi : p. 107 CHAPTER VI. ONG after all about Brodar Merune and the tricks of the buggane had been forgotten and faded from the memory of the Manx people, some worthy and well-disposed persons determined to put the church into a proper state of repair, and render it fit and complete for the services...
Tom Kewley And The Lannanshee. Chapter I : p. 29 p. 30 p. 31 TOM KEWLEY AND THE LANNANSHEE; OR, THE FAIRY CUP OF KIRK MALEW. CHAPTER I. ALLASALLA is a quiet little Manx village on the bank of a rushing, leaping, murmuring trout stream, which, after tearing down from the sides of South Barrule mountain, and winding in and out between...
Tom Kewley And The Lannanshee. Chapter Iii : p. 49 CHAPTER III OW," said the king, so soon as his henchman had filled his jewelled goblet with bright amber-coloured wine--"now let us resume our merry-making. Let those near our mortal guest, Tom Kewley, see that he is hospitably entertained, as so worthy a guest should be, and the master...
The Phynodderree. A Tale Of Fairy Love. Chapter V : p. 20 CHAPTER V ITTY KERRUISH was true to her appointment at the blue rowan tree, and had been waiting some few minutes when Uddereek arrived. After returning his fond embrace, she began to upbraid her elfin lover for his late arrival, jestingly twitting him with his inability to tear himself away...
The Buggane's Vow. Chapter Iii : p. 100 CHAPTER III. DESIGN for the church was settled, which those who are acquainted with the primitive barn-like simplicity of the ecclesiastical architecture of the Isle of Man will readily understand did not occupy much time in doing. The work was commenced without delay. Jarl Haco very...
The Phynodderree. A Tale Of Fairy Love. Chapter Iv : p. 15 CHAPTER IV REAT were the preparations the next evening among the Elfin community for the coming feast and dance in the Magher-Glass of Glen Rushen. Fairies from all parts of the island assembled to do honour to their Elfin monarch and his beauteous queen. Even the arch and naughty bugganes...
Mona's Isle : p. x Ah, Mona's isle, fair Mona's isle, No land so dear as thou to me; Thy gorse and heather covered hills, With waterfalls and sparkling rills, Which join the bright green sea. I love to wander in solitude By the banks of thy gurgling streams, Or sit and muse on a mossy stone Of fairy-lore...
Preface : p. viii p. vii PREFACE. N no part of the British Islands has the belief in the existence of Fairies retained a stronger hold upon the people than in the Isle of Man. In spite of the tendency of this matter-of-fact age to destroy what little of poetry, romance, and chivalry Nineteenth Century...
King Olave The Second And The Great Sword. Part 03 : p. 69 CHAPTER II. HE other jarls of Man, hearing of the fate of their friend and neighbour Kitter, and fearing a general rising of the Manx peasantry against them, assembled together to take counsel for their united defence. Their suspicions were unanimously fixed on Eaoch, the cook, who they...
Tom Kewley And The Lannanshee. Chapter Iv : p. 57 CHAPTER IV T was some considerable time ere anything like consciousness returned to Tom Kewley, and his first supposition was that every bone in his body was not merely broken, but smashed into little bits, and the top of his crown utterly crushed in by his fall. He lay on the ground...