The tale survived in the history books until the end of the 19th century when it was rejected as a legend by critically minded historians.
This bogus tale did not survive into the printed editions of Chaucer's Works.
Each motif of the Song of Heritage tells a tale important to my family surviving and thriving over many centuries on Triex.
Yet some of you who have provided the ears without which no tale can survive a single day are likely not so willing.
The mythological tales survived more easily, and the information found in them is probably closer to pagan originals.
Recently, however, at least two young males have shown signs of this gift, and tales survive of others during the Ages of Chaos.
Two short tales survive which associate Mongán with the otherworld, both dating from the late 10th or early 11th century.
Cotten has asserted, however, that the tale of Dare as the White Doe had survived for some three centuries as part of colonial folklore.
One tale survives from the golden age that followed.
The tale survives in two recensions: a short version written mainly in Old Irish and a later, expanded version of the Middle Irish period.