IN LEGEND AND FABLE 57 



We will close this Chapter with a pretty- 

 legend of the northland. It is partly fairy 

 tale and partly myth, and in it we shall learn 

 how the swallows bring the summer to the 

 frozen countries of the far north. 



The Scotch Princesses and the 

 Swallows 



A Legend of Lapland 



A certain king of Scotland was in the 

 habit of having his wives strangled as soon 

 as a son came. He had already sent five 

 wives into the; other world, when he sought 

 and obtained as his sixth companion Tuigga, 

 the lovely daughter of the king of Ireland. 

 After a few months had passed, her husband 

 had her shut up in a tower under the guard 

 of an old woman named Odaffa and an old 

 man U If eld, the same who had performed 

 the five services of which you know. But 

 one or the other of them took pity on the 

 poor queen, and when two little daughters 

 came to her they concealed the fact from the 



