Martin Shaw

Now, if that wasn't strange enough that the dogs would be protecting the animal, the animal then walks forward and places her, you know, her nose in the hands of Finn, utterly without fear.

Finn immediately recognizes that he is in the presence of something extremely unusual.

Now, we would call that an encounter with fairy.

The Irish may say rather beautifully, this is what they call the people of the she, the people of the hill, the gentry, the other folk.

Finn turns and he says, everybody on one knee.

We are in the presence of something very mysterious and I place, it's a lovely phrase, druid bonds.

Some people call it gesa or gesh.

I place druid bonds on this animal that I shall protect it because clearly it is vulnerable and it comes from some other dimension.

So this has been a development, you know, the day has definitely accelerated and they take the deer back and all night long everybody's feasting and the young poets have something new to write about the emergence of this doe and that she's clearly fairy but we don't know how.

Well anyway, it gets to the end of the day and Finn is bushed and he goes off to bed.

Now, he is just about to close his eyes and there's a knock at the door of Finn's chamber.

Now, Finn, believe it or not, he's not used to knocks at that time of night.

And he opens the door.

Well, there she is.

He will always call her the bright pulse of his whole understanding.

He will call her the sky woman of the dawn.

Standing in the doorway is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen.

Eyes like the midnight and hair like the morning.

That kind.

He just says, I promise you, I'm all yours.