When the Danes captured Dublin in the eighth century, the poet Rumann - the Irish Virgil - went to this city to pay off the newcomers in his own way. He composed a poem about the invaders and, as a reward - and no one could refuse it - demanded one penny from each vile Dane and two pennies from each noble. The city was full of foreign robbers, but the poet’s disciples took away whole bags of coins. Moreover, all the coins were two pennies.
Rumann took his booty to the best school in Rathain, near Kilbegan. He gave a third of everything to the school, divided the other third among the visiting students who inhabited the seven streets of Rathain, and left the last third for himself and his many students.
That's what the old books tell.
In the old days they said:
"You shouldn't break into an open door."
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru