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In the proud and far back days when Cormac, High King, ruled at Tara, Finn the son of Cool claimed the Captaincy of the Fianna, a mighty brotherhood that held the shores of Erin from all invaders. And it was under this Finn Mac Cool that the Fianna came to their greatest glory.
There is the tale of how Finn won—and lost—the beautiful Saba, one of the fairy race, who left with Finn their son, Oisin. There is the story of the battle of Tir-fa-Thonn in the Land under the Sea. And the tale of how Finn gained his great hounds, Bran and Skolawn. There is the tragedy of Dearmid and Grania.
As in her earlier The Hound of Ulster, Rosemary Sutcliff, in her retelling from fairy tale and folklore of the legends of Finn Mac Cool, has again joined company with the great storytellers of old. As she says, "They are stories made simply for the delight of story-making, and I have retold them in the same spirit—even adding a flicker or a flourish of my own, as everyone who has retold them in the past thousand years or so has done before me."
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