The King of Ireland's Son

Fedelma The Enchanters Daughter Connal was the name of the King who ruled over Ireland at that time. He had three sons and as the fir-trees grow some crooked and some straight one of them grew up so wild that in the end the King and the Kings Councillor had to let him have his own way in everything. This youth was the Kings eldest son and his mother had died before she could be a guide to him. Now after the King and the Kings Councillor left him to his own way the youth Im telling you about did nothing but ride and hunt all day. Well one morning he rode abroad-—His hound at his heel His hawk on his wrist; And I went where the rowans grow