![]() ![]() He could fashion a spear-shaft while you'd count five, and the spear-head at three strokes of a hammer. If he didn't build Ferns, he built other castles for some of the five kings or the great chiefs. Maybe it was him that built the Castle of Ferns part of the walls are thick enough to be built by any goban, or gow, that ever splintered wood, or hammered red-hot iron, or cut a stone. It is a long time since the Goban Saor was alive. He cuts off horses' legs to shoe them with the greater ease to himself, and sets an old woman in his furnace, in the vague hope that he may hammer her into a fresh young lass when she is hot enough. ![]() Asbjornsen and Moƫ is altogether unprincipled. Voelund returns evil for evil, and the master smith of MM. Our smith is a more moral, as well as a more fortunate man, than the Voelund of the Northern saga. All that remains to us is to make the most we can of our materials. These old-world legends have reached our time and our province in an unsatisfactory and degraded state. Vulcan or Prometheus was the original craftsman perhaps Daedalus might dispute the honour with them. It is probable that a more complete legend concerning this celebrated gow (Smith) would be met with in Mayo or Kerry. Unconnected adventures of this character are met with in every country of Europe. The Goban Saor, pronounced Gubawn Seer (free smith, free mason, or free carpenter, in fact), is a relative of Wayland Smith, or Voelund, in the Voelundar Quida but with equal skill he is endowed with more mother wit than the Northern craftsman. ![]()
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