` Ah , lord , hast thou not received all thou didst ask ? ' said the bishop . ` Set now my wife free ! ' ` That I will gladly , ' answered Manawyddan , unloosing the cord from her neck , and as he did so the bishop struck her with his staff , and she turned into a young woman , the fairest that ever was seen . ` Look around upon thy land , ' said he , ` and thou wilt see it all tilled and peopled , as it was long ago . ' And Manawyddan looked , and saw corn growing in the fields , and cows and sheep grazing on the hill-side , and huts for the people to dwell in . And he was satisfied in his soul , but one more question he put to the bishop . ` What spell didst thou lay upon Pryderi and Rhiannon ? ' ` Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about him , and Rhiannon has carried the collars of my asses around her neck , ' said the bishop with a smile . From the ` Mabinogion . ' The Believing Husbands Once upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife , and of all the maidens round about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer . The girl was willing and the father was willing , and very soon they were married and went to live at the farm . By and bye the season came when they must cut the peats and pile them up to dry , so that they might have fires in the winter . So on a fine day the girl and her husband , and the father and his wife all went out upon the moor . They worked hard for many hours , and at length grew hungry , so the young woman was sent home to bring them food , and also to give the horses their dinner . When she went into the stables , she suddenly saw the heavy pack-saddle of the speckled mare just over her head , and she jumped and said to herself : ` Suppose that pack-saddle were to fall and kill me , how dreadful it would be ! ' and she sat down just under the pack-saddle she was so much afraid of , and began to cry . Now the others out on the moor grew hungrier and hungrier . ` What can have become of her ? ' asked they , and at length the mother declared that she would wait no longer , and must go and see what had happened .
As the bride was nowhere XXXXX the kitchen or the dairy , the old woman went into the stable , where she found her daughter weeping bitterly .
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