he jewel from her, the Fairy Woman, carrying the green mantle,
went into the green rath.

Then Mell took his goat by the horns and turned towards his hut. And
there, outside the gate of the Castle he saw the King's daughter,
Princess Bright Brow. She was watching the falconer training the young
hawks and the grooms and the riders of the Castle were behind her.
When she saw Mell with his hands on the goat's horns she grew high in
rage and she turned to the grooms to give an order that he be beaten
with the whips they held.

But Mell ran to her and he caught her hand and holding the jewel he
said "I wish that I was in the Island of the Shadow of the Stars and
that this young girl was with me." The hawk flew at him and the hound
sprang at him and the whips struck at him and while he was still
expecting the feel of teeth and claws and lash he was away and was in
another country altogether. There was neither hawk nor hound nor hut
nor castle nor groom nor falconer. Two beings only were there and they
were Mell the Hen-wife's son and the King's daughter, Princess Bright
Brow.

"In what country are we?" said Princess Bright Brow.

"Unless we are in the Island of the Shadow of the Stars I don't know
where we are," said Mell, the Hen-wife's Son.

"You are the Hen-wife's son and you have brought me here by
enchantment," said Bright Brow.

She wanted to go from him, but where was she to go to? All the country
was strange to her. And so, if she made two steps away from him she
soon made two steps back to him. And the end of this part of the story
is that Bright Brow became friendly to the Hen-wife's Son.

He gathered fruits off trees and he snared birds and he took the fish
out of rivers and he found sheltered places to sleep in. And often the
Princess Bright Brow was good and kind to him. And Mell the Hen-wife's
son was now as happy as anyone in the world. "Since we are so friendly
to each other now," said Bright Brow to him one day, "will you not
tell me how you were able to come here and bring me with you?"

"It was because of the jewel I wear at my breast," said Mell. And then
he told how he had found the green mantle on the ground and how the
Fairy Woman gave him the jewel and what power the jewel had.

If Mell was content to be on the Island, Bright Brow was not. And so
one evening when he was asleep she lifted up the mantle and took the
jewel that was on his breast. Then holding it in her hand she said "I
wish I w