When she died, a pine grew from her grave and intertwined with a pine from her lover's grave, growing as a single tree.
James Stephens' novel about this figure ends with her drinking the blood of her lover. When she died, a pine grew from her grave and intertwined with a pine from her lover's grave, growing as a single tree. She had initially run away to Alba, but is tricked into returning, only to see Naoise [NYE-ose] killed. Before she was born, the druid Cathbad, predicted her beauty and her tale, but she would not heed him and attempted to escape Conchobar's grasp. FTP, name this maiden, whose tragedy caused all of Ulster sorrow according to Celtic myth.
James Stephens' novel about this figure ends with her drinking the blood of her lover.
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