They stayed with him, and Conall bribed the miller to put him and his sons in the sacks of bran he delivered to the king.
Conall told him that he was married, but went to sea and found a woman trying to slit the throat of a baby by a cauldron.
[2] Professional researcher and storyteller Csenge Virág Zalka lists the tale type as folklore material that depicts loving fathers.
[4] A medieval literary version, “The Sons of the Bandit,” appears in Dolopathos by John of Alta Silva.
[5][6] The Brothers Grimm removed a variant, "The Robber and His Sons," from the final edition of Children’s and Household Tales because it too closely resembled the Greek myth of Polyphemus.
[7] Joseph Jacobs included it in Celtic Fairy Tales, softening one episode and noting it occurred as The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen in Ireland.
[8] MacEdward Leach located a Celtic version from Cape Breton, which he first obtained from Ronald Smith.
[9] A Canadian variant, "Red Conall of the Tricks," appears in The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton by John Shaw.