Children of Lir

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• attestation: Children: Children, he added, were not different from the man who begot them, since they drew from him... (The Danish History, > Book Seven.)

  "Children, he added, were not different from the man who begot them, since they drew from him their common principle of birth."

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Children of Lir, who, though (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

  "With this account of the fairy wife frequenting a lake island to converse with her husband on shore, compare the Irish story of the Children of Lir, who, though"

• attestation: However, the change into a swan is also known on Irish ground: take for instance the story of the Children of Lir, who were converted into swans by their stepmother, and lived in that form on Loch Dai (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter VI: The Folklore of the Wells)

  "However, the change into a swan is also known on Irish ground: take for instance the story of the Children of Lir, who were converted into swans by their stepmother, and lived in that form on Loch Dairbhreach, in Westmeath, for three hundred years, and twice as long on the open sea, until their destiny closed with the advent of St."

• attestation: favourite Celtic notion illustrated by the transformations here instanced, to which may be added the case of the Children of Lir, pp (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "favourite Celtic notion illustrated by the transformations here instanced, to which may be added the case of the Children of Lir, pp. 93, 549, changed by the stroke of their wicked stepmother's wand into swans, on Lough Erne."

• attestation: to which may be added the case of the Children of Li (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "to which may be added the case of the Children of Lir"