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But the Manx

But the Manx girl has only to eat a salt herring, bones and all, without drinking or uttering a word, and to retire backwards to bed

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But the Manx girl has only to eat a salt herring, bones and all, without drinking or uttering a word, and to retire backwards to bed (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

but the man I slew was Aurlyg (Njál's Saga, The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 86. Hrapp'S Voyage From Iceland)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: But the Manx girl has only to eat a salt herring, bones and all, without drinking or uttering a word, and to retire backwards to bed (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

    "But the Manx girl has only to eat a salt herring, bones and all, without drinking or uttering a word, and to retire backwards to bed."

Njál's Saga

  • attestation: but the man I slew was Aurlyg (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 86. Hrapp'S Voyage From Iceland)

    ""What manslaughter was that," says Kolbein, "and what men have the blood-feud?"

"The men of Weaponfirth," says Hrapp, "but the man I slew was Aurlyg, the son of Aurlyg, the son of Roger the White."

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