Harp

Stories tagged Harp:

• The King with the Horse’s Ears Aug 13, 2025

  

  There was once a king whose ears were the ears of a horse. They were not ugly as such things go, but they were unmistakable, and the king—being vain as a magpie—hid them beneath a velvet cap and commanded that none should speak of them on pain of silence forever.

  Each spring, the hair beneath the cap grew hot and restive, and the king needed a barber with careful hands. That year they chose young Donnchadh, a barber whose razors were kind and whose eyes knew how to look away.

• The Harp of Dagda Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the ancient days when the Tuatha Dé Danann ruled over Ireland with wisdom and magic, there lived among them a mighty god known as the Dagda. The Dagda was the father of all gods, master of life and death, controller of the seasons, and keeper of the great cauldron that could feed any number of people without ever emptying.

  But of all the Dagda’s magical possessions, none was more precious to him than his enchanted harp, called Uaithne. This was no ordinary instrument, but a harp of such extraordinary power that its music could control the very fabric of reality itself.