"Say to him now," said her muime, "that thou wilt not marry him unless he brings thee a kist that will lock without and within, and for which it is all the same to be on sea or on land." When she got the kist, she folded the best of her mother's clothes, and of her own clothes in it. "Say to him now," said her muime, "that thou wilt not marry him till he brings thee a golden shoe, and a silver shoe." He got her a golden shoe and a silver shoe. "Say now to him," said her muime, "that thou wilt not marry him till he brings thee a gown of silk that will stand on the ground with gold and silver." At the end of a day and year he returned He went, and at the end of a day and year he returned, and a gown of the moorland canach with him. "Say to him," said her muime, "that thou wilt not marry him till he gets thee a gown of the moorland canach." She said this to him. She went again to take the counsel of her muime. She went, crying where her muime was and her foster mother said to her, "What was the matter with her?" She said, "That her father was insisting that he would marry her." Her muime told her to say to him, "That she would not marry him till he should get her a gown of the swan's down." He went, and at the end of a day and a year he came, and the gown with him. When her father saw her he would marry no woman but her. His daughter one day tried her mother's dress on, and she came and she let her father see how it fitted her. When his wife departed, he would marry none but one whom her clothes would fit. THERE was a king before now, and he married, and he had but one daughter. THE KING WHO WISHED TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. Sacred Texts Legends & Sagas Celtic Index Previous Next The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter