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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Dublin or Wexford or Waterford, the husband of some saffron-robed
Irish princess, "fair as an elf," as the old saying was; some
"maiden of the three transcendent hues," of whom the old book of
Linane says:
Red as the blood which flowed from stricken deer,
White as the snow on which that blood ran down,
Black as the raven who drank up that blood;
- and possibly, as in the case of Brian Boru's mother, had given his
fair-haired sister in marriage to some Irish prince, and could not
resist the spell of their new creed, and the spell too, it may be,
of some sister of theirs who had long given up all thought of
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