It was said that the Fenians were sleeping inside this Rock, and that if anyone would go in there and blow three times on the Wooden Whistle, which lies next to Finn, they would rise up alive and healthy as they were before. A blacksmith who lived on the island heard this story and decided to try to enter the Rock. He reached the place where she was, and then a good idea came to him about the key to the entrance hole. He returned to the forge and made a key that fit the well. Then he returned to the Rock, and as soon as he turned the key in the well, the door opened.
He saw in front of him a vast, spacious place and enormously large people lying on the floor. One man, larger than the rest, lay in the middle, and next to him was a large hollow wooden staff. The blacksmith thought it was
Wooden Whistler. But it was so big that the blacksmith was afraid that he would not be able to lift it, much less whistle into it. He stood for a while, looking at it, but in the end he realized that he had gone too far and must try at any cost. He took hold of the Wooden Whistle and with difficulty brought it to his mouth. He blew into it with all his might, and the sound was as loud as
The rock with everything on it collapsed on his head. The huge, clumsy people who were lying on the floor shuddered from the tops of their heads to their soles. He blew on the Wooden Whistler another time, and with one jerk they stood up on their elbows. Their fingers were like forest grape vines, and their hands were like iron oak branches. With their size and terrifying appearance, they plunged him into such horror that he threw away the Wooden Whistler and rushed away. Then they shouted after him: “It’s bad that you found us; even worse that you left us!”
But he didn't look back until he got outside and locked the door. Then he pulled the key out of the well and threw it into the lake that was next to the Rock and which is called to this day Lake of the Blacksmith's Rock.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru