Chapter 1
One day something happened to Fionn, the son of Uail; that is,
he departed from the world of men, and was set wandering in great
distress of mind through Faery. He had days and nights there and
adventures there, and was able to bring back the memory of
these.
That, by itself, is wonderful, for there are few people who
remember that they have been to Faery or aught of all that happened
to them in that state.
In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Faery, and in the
beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years. But
when we return the memory is quickly clouded, and we seem to have
had a dream or seen a vision, although we have verily been in
Faery.
It was wonderful, then, that Fionn should have remembered all
that happened to him in that wide-spun m
