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The Tain (Paperback)
Anonymous; Translated by Joseph Dunn
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The Tain (Paperback)
Joseph Dunn
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R432
R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
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ONCE of a time, that Ailill and Medb had spread their royal bed in
Cruachan, the stronghold of Connacht, such was the pillow talk that
befell betwixt them: Quoth Ailill: 'True is the saying, lady, 'She
is a well off woman that is a rich man's wife.'' 'Aye, that she is,
' answered the wife; 'but wherefore opin'st thou so?' 'For this, '
Ailill replied, 'that thou art this day better off than the day
that first I took thee.' Then answered Medb: 'As well off was I
before I ever saw thee.' 'It was a wealth, forsooth, we never heard
nor knew of, ' Ailill said; 'but a woman's wealth was all thou
hadst, and foes from lands next thine were used to carry off the
spoil and booty that they took from thee.' 'Not so was I, ' quoth
Medb; 'the High King of Erin himself was my sire, Eocho Fedlech
('the Enduring') son of Finn, by name, who was son of Findoman, son
of Finden, son of Findguin, son of Rogen Ruad ('the Red'), son of
Rigen, son of Blathacht, son of Beothacht, son of Enna Agnech, son
of Oengus Turbech. Of daughters, had he six: Derbriu, Ethne and
Ele, Clothru, Mugain and Medb, myself, that was the noblest and
seemliest of
The history of Ireland remains to be written, for the purpose of
Irishmen remains yet to be achieved. The struggle for national
realization, begun so many centuries ago, is not ended; and if the
long story offers a so frequent record of failure, it offers a
continuous appeal to the highest motives and a constant exhibition
of a most pathetic patriotism linked with the sternest courage.
"Then they all gazed upon him. They wondered and marvelled. "Come,
boys " cried Folloman, Conchobar's son," the urchin insults us.
Throw yourselves all on yon fellow, and his death shall come at my
hands; for it is geis among you for any youth to come into your
game, without first entrusting his safety to you. And do you all
attack him together, for we know that yon wight is some one of the
heroes of Ulster.
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