The Fairy Flag

Introduction

I have been watching and enjoying the series Mythland on the BBC, and episode three is The Fairy Flag of Skye. If you have access to BBC iPlayer, you can watch it at the link below:

The legend says the Fairy Flag of Skye was gifted when the Fairy Queen had to leave and could be unfurled in battle only three times. The first two times guaranteed victory, and the final time was Armageddon time. It has only been unfurled twice, but when the castle was on fire in 1938, when the flag was moved, it started to rain, and the castle was saved.

In World War II, pilots were given postcards of the Fairy Flag, which they took with them to protect them on their battle flights.

Now for a tale inspired by the concept of The Fairy Flag

The Fairy Flag

They had been best friends for years, and never thought the day would come when they would say goodbye. Some thought they were lovers, but it was deeper than that; they were not lovers, but they loved each other more deeply than anyone they knew.

Then one day she told him she had to leave. He was devastated. She told him she was one of the fairy folk and had been recalled to Tir Na Nog by her folk.

She said her final goodbye to him on the Fairy Bridge and gave him her Fairy Flag to remember her by. She told him it would protect him and comfort him whenever he thought of her or needed comfort.

She faded from the bridge, and he wrapped himself in her fairy flag, and immediately her spirit was there with him, and he knew that everything would be fine.

When he touched her flag, she could feel him too.

Though they were far apart, their love would last forever.