Then went the three sons of Esse Enchinde, viz. by Kuno Meyer, pp. Hosts and multitudes and many armed men flee with the terror of my face.”, “Those are good fights of a tender boy,” said the maiden, “but thou hast not yet p.74 Fifteen feet and nine score was the size of that house. , Gloss: i.e. , A small stringed instrument played with the fingers. He met an old woman on the road who was blind of her left eye. Its name was originally Rae-bán (White Field) until then. This was the crew of the one ship, viz., Lugaid and Luan Da Mac Loich and Ferbaeth and Larin and Ferdiad and Drust, son of Serb. She looked at him, but did not speak to him, so much did the striking shape which she saw on the youth move her desire. Carvings of red yew were therein. Me thinks, a shower of pearls has been poured in his mouth. “I may not marry,” said the maiden, “before the sister who is older than I am, viz., Fial, daughter of Forgall, whom thou seest near me here. Story Archaeologists ♦ 27/07/2017 ♦ Leave a Comment. The King of Ana, I said, and his Servant (gnia), i.e., Cerna through which we passed. Beatrix Färber), 2008-10-27: Header modified; keywords added; file validated. It was called Ange after the king whose horses the Tuatha De Danann washed in it.
Emer was instructing the women of the area in needlework and craft, when her sister saw a chariot approaching. She bound that man by dint of her strength, and left him in the wood. The other horse jet-black, hard-headed, round, slender-footed, broad-hoofed [...] spirited, curly, plaited, tressed, broad-backed, firmly shod, [...] fiery, fierce, strongly striding, firmly stamping, long-maned, curly-maned, long-tailed, with firm curls, broad of forehead, beautiful he moves along after having beaten the horses in the land, he bounds over the smooth dry sward, he follows the levels of the midglen, he finds no obstacle in the land [...] A chariot of fine wood with wicker-work, on which are white bronze wheels. And she told him to be on his guard wherever he went, lest he should destroy him. Segmentation: div0=the saga; div1=the section (= the editor's paragraph). Cuchulaind then went with Aife and slept with her that night. Not hard to tell, said he. Then the champion remembered his feats of valour, and Cuchulaind returned them as if he had been taught them from his youth, and the champion fell by him, and he struck his head off. She was sovereign for seven years. “There is a charioteer before him in that chariot, a very slender, long-sided, much freckled man. (Anecdota from Irish MSS. “True,” said she, “someone who has achieved valour somewhere else.” And from her she sent her daughter to know who the youth was. V 28–30, 1913). She bound every one of them, one after the other and brought them all in one chain to Ulster. I have champions that follow me to guard me from whoever will take me against their pleasure, without their and Forgall's knowledge of my act.”, “Who are the champions that followed thee, oh maiden?” said Cuchulaind. III. There Cuchulaind killed hundred men of them. “Where did you sleep?” said she. Rudolf Thurneysen, Verba Scáthaige nach 22 N 10, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 9 (1913) 487f. He was a whole year near it but could not approach her for the number of the watch. The electronic texts represents Kuno Meyer's translation of the work, including introductory remarks and annotations. Let us go, said he, to the border of the land., When they were on the shore of Loch Cuan,42 they beheld two birds on the sea. Then he said: Fair is this plain, the plain of the noble yoke. Then the maiden spoke these words: No one comes to this plain, said Emer, who does not slay as many as a hundred (comainm n-aircid) on each ford from the Ford of Scennmenn at Ollbine, to Banchuing Arcait21 where swift Brea breaks the brow of Fedelm. Fair is this plain, the plain of the noble yoke, said Cuchullaind. Then, from fear of Cuchulaind, p.301 ), thin-mouthed, with long tresses, with broad foreheads, much speckled, slightly slender, very broad, impetuous, with curling manes, with curling tails. “Arise,” said Conchobar, “and bring me the herds that I have in Slieve Fuait.” Then Cuchulaind went, and drove together whatever he found in Slieve Fuait of swine and stags, and of every sort of fowl game besides, and drove them in one drove with him to the meadow of Emain. Then Scathach told him what would befal him in the future, and sang to him in the seer's large shining ken, 38 and spake these words: “Welcome, oh victorious, warlike {⬌}.” 39, Then Cuchulainn went in his ship to reach Erinn.
The pursuers overtook them at Ath n-Imfúait on the Boyne. Forgall went home, and the warriors arose in the morning and set themselves to do what they had vowed. Not hard to tell, truly, said the maiden, Tara of the women,11 the whitest of maidens, the [...] of chastity, a prohibition which is not taken, a watchman who sees no one.12 A modest woman is a worm,13 a scaldcrow [...] a rush which none come near.14 The daughter of a king, a flame of honour, a road that cannot be entered [...] viz. 30 There was a famous king here in Erinn, viz,: Ruad, son of Rigdond, of Munster. (East Linton 1999) 507–508. After the full lore of his soldierly arts with Scathach had passed for Cuchulaind—as well as the apple-feat, the thunder-feat, the blade-feat, the foen-feat, and the spear-feat, the rope-feat, the body-feat, the cat's feat, the salmon-feat of a chariot-chief, the throw of the staff, the jump over {⬌}, the whirl of a brave chariot-chief, the spear of the bellows, 37 the boi of swiftness, the wheel-feat, the othar-feat, the breath-feat, the brud geme, the hero's whoop, the blow {⬌}, the counter-blow, running up a lance and righting the body on its point, the scythe-chariot, and the hero's twisting round the p.303 “It is true,” said Forgall the Wily. The youth had also told him there was a large glen before him, and a single narrow path through it which was full of monsters that had been sent by Forgall to destroy him, and that was his road to the house of Scathach across terrible high strong districts. Conchobor paid Emer's wedding gift on the morrow, and Cuchulaind's honour price was paid, and he slept then with his wife, and they did not separate after that until they both died. Cúchulainn and his foster-son Lugaid Riab nDerg see the swans, and Cúchulainn shoots Derbforgaill down with his sling. These were the youths in Emain at that time, about whom the poet spoke, setting forth their names: Title (uniform): The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn, Title (original, Irish): Tochmarc Emire la Coinculaind, Title (supplementary): English Translation, Electronic edition compiled by: Benjamin Hazard, Funded by: University College, Cork and The Irish Higher Education Authority via the LDT Project, Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork, Address: College Road, Cork, Ireland.—http://www.ucc.ie/celt. Todd, p. 139. When Forgall the Wily heard this, he went to Tara, and said to Lugaid that the best maiden in Erinn, both in shape and chastity and handiwork, was living with him unmarried. And [...] were made to keep off the plague. 5 A hundred fillings of beverage went into it every evening. , Imbas Forosnai. Emer lifted up her lovely fair face and recognised Cuchulaind. The Wooing of Emer and other stories by Patrick Brown The fullest version of The Wooing of Emer is found in the Book of Leinster (c.1160) in a text dating from the tenth or eleventh century. According to Hennessy, Chron. To Beldine, i.e. (ed. she smeared herself with rye-dough and {⬌}. Three grandsons of Cletechbright perfectionUath, Urud and Aslinge. Two Lui, two Luath, Luath and Lath Goible, son of Tethra, Triath and Trescath, Brion and Bolor, Bas, son of Omnach, eight Condla, Cona, son of Forgall. From him is the saying, 'a story of Scel's,' for he was a mighty story-teller. Then Cuchulaind went up to her two sons, and sprang on the path, and met them all three, and they fell by him. She came back to the fire. After those noble words, Cuchulaind went from them, and they did not hold any further converse on that day. Not as a churl looks to the heritage of his children, not between flag-stone and kneading-trough, nor from the fire to the wall, nor on the floor of the one larder (?) The daughter of Domnall had raised that vision in order to sever Cuchulaind from his companions to his ruin. Sorrowful was the woman Scathach at this. There he met a maiden of fair make in the house. And send news and messages to thy absent friends to the meadow-lands of the Norse (co iathaib Gallecda, co Galliathaib na n-Gall), viz., to Amláib (or Olaib), the grandson of Inscoa, the king of Lochlann, to Findmór, son of Rofer, the king of the seventh part of Lochlainn, to Baré of the men of the Faroer (Seiggire), to the dun of the Fishercarls (Piscarcarla), to Brodor Roth and Brodor Fiúit, to Siugraid Soga, the king of Súdiam, to Sortadbud, the king of the Orkneys, to the seven sons of Romrach, to Hil, to Mael, to Muile, to Abram, son of Romrach, to Cet, son of Romrach, to Celg son of Romrach, to Mod, son of Herling, to Conchobor the victorious, son of Artur, son of Bruide, son of Dungal, to the son of the king of Alba, and Clothra, daughter of Conchobor the famous.” Several Irish chiefs were then sent on this errand, with the Norsemen Cano to guide them across the strait of the sea and the great ocean. by Kuno Meyer, pp. The maiden told him fully. (ed. reached the strength of chariot-chiefs.” “Truly, oh maiden,” said he, “well have I been brought up by my dear foster-father Conchobor. Scot. Then he gave him an apple, and told him to follow the ground where the apple would run, and that in such wise he would reach the far end of the plain. “We slept,” he said, “in the house of the man who tends the cattle of the plain of Tethra.” “What was your food there?” she asked. Several versions have come down to us, on which see Jubainville, Catalogue de la Littérature Epique de L'Irlande, p, 227. For he had promised his comrades not to return again to Emain, unless he had reached Scathach, or found death. the Great Dam, between the God and his Seer, over the Marrow of the woman Fedelm, between the Boar and his Dam, over the Washing of the Horses of Dea, between the King of Ana (or Ara) and his Servant, to Mondchuile of the Four Corners of the World, over Great Crime, over the Remnants of the Great Feast, between Dabach and Dabchine, to Luglochta 10 Loga, to the daughters of the nephew of Tethra, King of the Fomori.”, “What is the account of thee, oh maiden?” said Cuchulaind. I [...] anybody before wise men, I attend to their speeches. He went out then. You can add this reference to your bibliographic database by copying or downloading the following: Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. Segais was its name in the Sid, the river Segsa from the Sid to the Pool of Mochua, the Arm of the Wife of Nuadu and the Thigh of the Wife of Nuadu after that, the Boyne in Meath, Manchuing Arcait it is called from the Finda to the Troma, the Marrow of the Woman Fedelm from the Troma to the sea.
Whence hast thou come? she asked. Ferdia, son of Daman, and Noise, son of Usnech, and Lochmor, son of Egomas, and Fiamain, son of Fora, and an innumerable host besides. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Leabhar na hUidre: p 121a–127b. But it shall avail them nothing. The youth gave him a wheel and told him to follow its track thence across one-half of the plain. For the druids used to make two fires with great incantations, and to drive the cattle between them against the plagues, every year.
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