Look for them on the eve when this world and the Otherworld meet.” “Though you scorn me, I shall grant you this. “You will not ask me in vain, loving Dianaimh,” he said softly. “The gift of the safe return of the chieftains’ sons.” “If you love me, Eich-Uisge, then you must give me a gift.” I need your love and that of no other.”ĭianaimh found her soul longed for the cool, strong magic of the handsome man-horse.
I have been crying for you, these last few days. He stood there, in human form, as strong and handsome as ever he had been. So she answered the call of the Kelpie and went down to the sea-shore, where once they had been lovers. Then came the day when Dianaimh decided to challenge the Kelpie and demand to know the fate of the young men. For some days she sat wondering about them, for the story of how they were carried off by the Kelpie had spread from mouth to mouth, making the grief the harder to bear among the womenfolk of the islands.Įach day she heard the Kelpie calling her, but she was no longer its slave. It was now that she truly realized the fate of all the young men she had grown up with and there was sadness upon her. She knew that her love was impossible and that this world and the Otherworld could not be as one. The magic of the Kelpie’s tear had been dissolved within her breast, once she saw the Eich-Uisge for what he truly was.
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