The Leeching of Kayn’s Leg 179

finished they requested my mother and sister to go to see
its interior. They had no sooner entered than. the doors
were shut.; and the church went away into the skies in the
form of a tuft of mist.

 

 

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‘Stretch out your leg, Kayn, till I put a salve of herbs and
healing to it. Salve and binding herb and the poultice are
eooling; the worm is channering. Pressure and haste hard
bind me, for I must hear Mass in the great chureh at Rome,
and be in Norway before I sleep.

Kayn Mac Loy said:

“‘May it be no foot to Kayn or a foot to any one after one,
or I be Kayn son of Loy, if I stretch out my foot for you to
put a salve of herbs and healing on it, till you tell me if you
heard what befell your mother and sister.” :