"...After working on the great bridge night and day for a week, Finn MacCool was tired. He needed to rest so that he would be ready to fight his foe, a giant named Benandonner. So he bought time (and, as it turned out, achieved victory) by a cunning ruse. Benandonner came to Finn's house, ready to fight Finn. But Finn and his wife fooled him into thinking that Finn was much tougher and stronger than the Scottish giant. This made Benandonner so frightened that he fled Finn's house without a fight. He ran all the way back to Scotland across Finn's bridge, destroying it as he went. And today all that is left are the polygonal columns of Giant's Causeway and Staffa (an island off the coast of Scotland with similar rock formations)." From St. Louis Public Library
