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# XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire.

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XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 237 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/2/) — \_--Curtin, \_Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland\_, p. 114 \_seq.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/3/) — \_ I have shortened the earlier part of the tale, and introduced into the latter a few touches from Campbell's story of "Fionn's Enchantment," in \_Revue Celtique\_, t. i., 193 \_seq.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/4/) — \_
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/5/) — \_Parallels\_.--The early part is similar to the beginning of "The Sea-Maiden" (No. xvii., which see).
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/6/) — The latter part is practically the same as the story of "Fionn's Enchantment," just referred to.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/7/) — It also occurs in MacInnes' \_Tales\_, No. iii., "The King of Albainn" (see Mr. Nutt's notes, 454).
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/8/) — The head-crowned spikes are Celtic, \_cf.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/9/) — \_ Mr. Nutt's notes (MacInnes' \_Tales\_, 453).
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/10/) — \_Remarks\_.--Here again we meet the question whether the folk-tale precedes the hero-tale about Finn or was derived from it, and again the probability seems that our story has the priority as a folk-tale, and was afterwards applied to the national hero, Finn.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/11/) — This is confirmed by the fact that a thirteenth century French romance, \_Conte du Graal\_, has much the same incidents, and was probably derived from a similar folk-tale of the Celts.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/12/) — Indeed, Mr. Nutt is inclined to think that the original form of our story (which contains a mysterious healing vessel) is the germ out of which the legend of the Holy Grail was evolved (see his \_Studies in the Holy Grail\_, p. 202 \_seq.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/49/13/) — \_).

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