ame was Eevil, and I was known through
all the Kingdoms that are Under-Wave for my beautiful hair--my long,
beautiful, green hair. Something was in me that made me want to dance,
and I used to rise up through the water, and dance on the shore of the
island that is called Hathony.

Mananaun, as you, creatures, know, is Lord of the Sea, and what he
commands in the Kingdoms-Under-Wave has to be. Now Mananaun made a
promise to a King of an Earth-Kingdom, and the promise was that he
would give this King whatever he asked for. The King died according to
the ways of men, and his son, whose name was Branduv, came to rule
him.

Branduv called Mananaun out of the sea, and he asked that he renew the
promise he had made to his father. The Lord of the Sea did not want a
promise to lapse because of the death of a man, and he renewed it to
the man's son. Then Mananaun told him he would take him and show him
the Kingdoms of the Sea and whatever he saw that he desired there
would be given to him. He took him in his boat of glass "The Ocean
Sweeper" to visit the Kingdoms of the Sea.

They came to Moy Mell, the Plain of Pleasure, and there Mananaun gave
Branduv a branch of everlasting blossoms; they came to another Kingdom
and there Mananaun gave him a sword that was the best wrought in the
world; they came to a third Kingdom and there Mananaun gave him a pair
of hounds that could run down the silver-antlered stag. But as yet
Branduv the King had asked no gift from Mananaun.

They came to Mananaun's own Kingdom, Silver-Cloud Plain, and there
Branduv was left alone while Mananaun drank the Ale of the Ever-Living
Ones. The King saw from the shores of Silver-Cloud Plain "The Ocean
Sweeper," and he directed that the boat bring him to the island. And
the boat travelled as the one in it wished.

Only one thing had ever made me fearful of dancing on the shore of the
Island of Hathony--that was the presence there of a pair of Ravens.
These Ravens had once been Sea-maidens, but they had desired men for
husbands, and they had gone to them. The men forsook them, and they
had become first Witches and afterwards Ravens. Ever since their
change they wished harm to the Maidens of the Sea. I had been
frightened of them, but now I had seen them flapping about so often
that I was no longer or I was only a little, afraid.

I came up through the sea and I danced upon the shore of the island,
and the play of the waves was in my dance, and my long soft