I read these online and I found the online iformation for it.
Scanned and proofed by Phillip Brown. Formatted at sacred-texts.com, 2003 and 2009 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
Here is the web page.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cft/index.htm
I really don't know how I feel about these stories or who I would recomend them to. They just seemed weried and not to much like fairy tails. I read the four of them and I have a really hard time following them and keeping track of all that was going on. It is kind of hard to sit here and write something good and well about stories that I really did not enjoy. These are children fairy tales but I do not think that I would share them with my kids, I will stick with the clasics and maybe a Grimm fairy tale here and there for my boy(s) (if I have any.) I am one person though, so maybe read one of them, you could like them, but my oppion is they arent good, just to much all over the place.
So if you enjoy stories like these, then you would like these fairy tales and should read them.
There was an old fisherman and he was having no luck catching fish. He met the sea maiden and she said that she would make it to were he would always have fish if she would give her his first born son. He agreed.
When the time came for him to give her the son, he didn't. The son set off on a jurney. He came across a dog, a falcon, and an otter fighting over some food. He split it up between them giving them all different shares. These animals then promised their help to the boy in time of need for him. The boy went to work for the king. Thoughout the tale he fights a giant, a crone, and a three headed monster. All witht he help of the animals. This three headed monster is one with a bounty on it though. Who ever kills this monster gets to marry the kings daughter, but someone is already set to kill this monster. The boy kills it but the general takes all the credit for it, and the princess says that the general did kill the monster too, so the boy gets no credit for what he did. Then there was a rule made that she had to marry the one who could take the heads ooff the knot, and the general could not and the boy could. So they were to be married. The sea maiden came to collect her boy, and this left the princess sad. She went to the shore and began to play music and the sea maiden came out to listen. She showed her him and then she took the princess instead. He finds out the secerit of the sea maiden, that there is an island and on the island there is a trout with an egg in it, and that egg was the soul of the sea maiden. So he sets off to destory the egg and with the help of the animals he is able to find the trout and destroy the egg. Right before he broke the egg the sea maiden pleeded with him not to brake the egg and she will give him everything. He took hold of both the princesses hands and steped on the egg, and the sea maiden died.
I also read these Jacobs Tales:
The Lad with the Goat-Skin
The Story-Teller at Fault
Jack and his Master
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