Week 11, Reading Diary B: Celtic Fairy Tales I

Celtic Fairy Tales I
This weeks reading has been very interesting!

King O'Toole and His Goose
This story is about a King that loved to hunt. As he grew older, he was unable to keep up his hunting, but got a goose to keep him company and to do some hunting for him. The goose would swim over the lake and catch fish for the King on Friday's. After time, the goose grew old too. Along comes St. Kavin, and he tells the King that he will make his goose young again if he gives St. Kavin the land that the goose flies over. Not long after that the goose was hunting for fish and accidentally grabbed an eel that killed her, although it wouldn't eat her since she had been blessed.



The Tale of Ivan
This story is about a man named Ivan who goes to work for a farmer away from his home. The farmer said he would tell Ivan a piece of advice instead of his wages. This happened for three years straight.

The advice given was:
1. Never leave the old road for the sake of a new one
2. Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman
3. Honesty is the best policy

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After three years, the farmer gave Ivan a cake and told him to break it as soon as they were at their happiest. Long story short, the advice saved Ivan's hide two times and the last time it lead to him getting a job as a servant of the King. After he and his wife opened the cake, the three years wages was in the middle.