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Overview
Conchubar encounters Teeval asleep beside retreating waves while waiting for Culain’s weapons. She has golden hair, blue eyes, pearls and a many-coloured seaweed dress. He binds her with his girdle. She identifies herself as Princess of the Ocean and begs release; the narrative calls her a mermaid but supplies no explicit lower-body anatomy.
After he frees her, she instructs Culain to engrave her figure and name on the shield. Looking at it and calling her name will transfer the enemy’s strength to Conchubar and his men. The promised aid enables his victories and Ulster kingship, but he never sees her again. Morrison’s preface identifies this tale among those taken from earlier printed sources, unlike the accounts she personally heard.
Origins & earliest records
Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911); Teeval, Princess of the Ocean, pp. 110–115.
Records & interpretation
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Manx Fairy Tales: Teeval, Princess of the Ocean, pp. 110–115
Complete selected tale inspected in the original-edition transcription.
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- Primary collected narrativeMorrison 1911: Teeval, Princess of the Ocean, pp. 110–115Research access: 2026-10-05
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