The Story of Deirdre · page 31 2 3201When the bodies of the brothers were put in the grave, Deirdre said:--202Come over hither, Naois, my love, Let Arden close to Allen lie; If the dead had any sense to feel, Ye would have made a place for Deirdre.203The men did as she told them.204She jumped into the grave and lay down by Naois, and she was dead by his side.205The king ordered the body to be raised from out the grave and to be buried on the other side of the loch.206It was done as the king bade, and the pit closed.207Thereupon a fir shoot grew out of the grave of Deirdre and a fir shoot from the grave of Naois, and the two shoots united in a knot above the loch.208The king ordered the shoots to be cut down, and this was done twice, until, at the third time, the wife whom the king had married caused him to stop this work of evil and his vengeance on the remains of the dead.1 2 3← previousThe Sprightly Tailornext →Munachar and Manachar↑ back to Celtic Fairy TalesThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/page/3/