Here is the story of the little boy and the big giant. There was once a king who had a daughter. She got married. It happened one day that her husband was not at home. The Great Giant of Reibhlean came and won.
The little boy and the big giant
A year later, her husband got up:
- It's been a year since my wife left; I'm going to pick her up today.
He left and encountered a sheep pen. He approached the shepherd:
- Who are these sheep? he said.
- To the Great Giant of Reibhlean, north and south of Erin, to the beautiful little woman, daughter of a king of Erin; as big as your finger ran every tear down her white cheek, mourning her husband, mourning her man, mourning her three brothers, so that she misses the little boy with three quarters even more than the four men she left in Erin , the low.
He left and met a man standing at a door:
- Let me pass, he said.
- I won't let you pass, said the porter, unless you pay the toll.
He put his hand in his pocket and handed her the money. He did not stop until he was at the house of the Great Giant of Refbhlean. The woman saw him coming:
- What a pity, she said, that you did not stay at the house! When that man comes home tonight, he'll kill you.
They had a fun day, until night came.
"It's as much for you to go and hide now," she said, before this man saw you.
She put it under her bed.
It wasn't long ago that the Great Giant of Reibhlean arrived, with a large deer across his shoulders. He passed it through the fire, through the ashes and put it in his mouth.
- Frou! frâ! feasôg! he said, I smell the scent of the Irish liar, rascal, which is spreading this evening in my yard and my castle.
- My secret and my love, said the woman, will it not be so as long as I am here?
"There is this and something more," said the Great Giant.
- I was at the top of the house and Erin's little birds came by and landed on me. This is the smell you smell.
"There is this and something more," he said.
He got up and searched up and down so that he found the man under the bed. He pulled it out, took a dark magic wand and turned it into a stone pillar.
A year later, his brother stood up:
- She left two years ago today and her husband went looking for her a year ago and I'm going to look for her myself.
He went. He did not stop until he was at the home of the Great Giant of Reibhlean. The woman saw him coming.
- What a pity, she said, that you did not stay at home. When this man comes home, he will kill you.
They had a day of fun and singing until night came.
"It's as much for you to hide now," she said; in a little while this man will come to the house.
He had not been hidden for a long time when the Great Giant of Reihhlean entered, an old white beast on his shoulder. He passed it through the fire and the ashes and put it in his mouth.
- Frou! frâ! feasôg! he said, I can smell the scent of the liar, rascal Irishman spreading through my yard and castle tonight.
- My secret and my love! she said, won't it be so while I'm here?
- There is this and something more.
- I was at the top of the house and Erin's little birds landed on me, that's the smell you smell.
- There is this and something more.
He got up and searched up and down, so that he found the man. He carried it away, took a dark magic wand and made it into a stone pillar.
A year later, the second brother stood up:
- She left three years ago today. It is now two years and a day that her husband went to look for her. My brother left today a year ago and I will be leaving today.
He left. He did not stop until he was at the Great Giant's house.
- Oh! what a pity! she said, that you did not stay at home! When this man comes home, he will kill you. My husband is lying here as is your brother.
They had a day of fun and singing until the night came.
- It is as much for you to go and hide now, she said, in a little while this man is coming.
She hid it. It had not been long since the Great Giant entered, a large fallow deer across his shoulders. He passed it through the fire and the ashes and put it in his mouth.
- Frou! frâ! feasôg! he said, I can smell the lying, deceitful Irishman spreading through my yard and castle tonight.
- My secret and my love! she said, won't it be so while I'm here?
- There is this and something more.
- I was at the top of the house. Small Erin birds have landed on me, here's the smell you smell.
- There is this and something more.
He searched up and down so that he found the man. He took it off. He took a dark magic wand and turned it into a stone pillar.
A year later, another of his brothers stood up:
- She left four years ago today. It is now three years since her husband went to look for her. It has been two years today that my brother went to look for them; It's been a year since another of my brothers left. May misfortune and poverty fall on me if I do not go looking for my brothers today!
He went. He didn't stop until he was at the Great Giant's house.
- Oh! what a pity that you did not stay at home! When this man comes home, he will kill you. Your two brothers laying out there and my husband, and you'll be with them tonight.
They had a day of fun and singing until night came.
- It is as much for you, she said, to go and hide yourself now. In a little while this man will be home.
He went into hiding.
It hadn't been long since the Great Giant entered, a great old beast across his shoulders. He passed it through the fire, through the ashes and put it in his mouth.
- Frou! frâ! feasôg! said the giant, I can smell the scent of the Irish liar, rascal, which pervades my yard and my castle this night.
- My secret and my love! she said, won't it be so as long as I'm here?
- There is this and something more.
- I was at the top of the house. There were little Erin birds to land on me. This is the smell you smell.
- There is this and something more.
He searched up and down so that he found the man. He won. He hit it with a dark magic wand and turned it into a stone pillar.
A year later, the little boy with three quarters stood up:
- My mother left a long time ago, he said, my three uncles left for a long time and misfortune and poverty fall on me if I do not go and look for them!
He went. He prepared his hen and his oatmeal cake. He left and met the shepherd of the sheep:
- Who are these sheep? he said.
- To the Great Giant of Reibhlean, north and south of Ireland, to the beautiful little woman, daughter of a king of Ireland; as big as your finger ran every tear down her white cheek, mourning her husband, mourning her man, mourning her three brothers, so that she misses the little boy with three quarters even more than the four men she left in Erin the low.
- Let me pass.
- I will not let you pass, said the shepherd of the sheep, unless you pay the toll.
The little boy with three quarters cut off his head and continued on his way. He didn't stop until he was at the Great Giant's house. The mother saw him coming:
- Oh! my darling son, she said, it is a pity that you did not stay at home! When that man comes home tonight, he'll kill you. Your father and your three uncles are lying outside.
She smothered him with kisses, drowned him with tears; she wiped it with a silk and satin coat and laid it on a feather bed. When night came, she went down to where the little boy with three quarters was.
- Oh! my darling son, oh! my darling son, she said, oh! my darling son, in a little while this man is coming to the house and it is just as well for you to go and hide before he kills you.
The Great Giant wasted no time entering, a great old beast hanging across his shoulders. He passed it through the fire, through the ashes and put it in his mouth.
- Frou! frâ! feasôg! he said, I smell the scent of the liar, rascal Irishman that pervades my yard and my castle tonight.
- Oh! my secret and my love! will it not be so as long as I am here?
- There is this and something more.
"Yes, and here I am," said the little boy with three quarters.
The little boy with three quarters arrived.
- What do you prefer, said the Great Giant, to fight or to fight hard?
- I prefer to fight, said the little boy with three quarters; I practiced wrestling in small villages, in big villages, in the villages of my father and my mother.
They took each other in the hard embraces of the struggle, so that they made a soft egg with rock, rock with a soft egg, a fountain of living water in the middle of the gray rock. If anyone came from the north of the world to the south of the world, it was to look at these two that he would come, so that the evening and the end of the day came.
The little boy with three quarters hugged him and drove him to the ground up to his knees, and a second hug to the Adam's apple.
"A little green lump above his head, dirty rascal," said the little boy with three quarters.
- Don't do that, said the Giant, I'll give you half of what's outside and what's inside.
"It's been mine for two days," said the little boy with three quarters, blowing his head with nine furrows and nine furrows.
The head returned to the body. He struck the pericranium on the head.
- It's not unfortunate for you, said the head; if I returned to the body, neither you nor Erin's men would separate her.
He came in. He found the dark magic wand. He struck a blow on his father and on his three uncles. They stood up, as they were before. They gathered what was outside and inside and took it with them. He went away with his mother, father and three uncles; they arrived home and lived well until their death.
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