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Gods and Fighting Men
Lady Gregory
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And there were many women loved Angus, and there was one Enghi, daughter of Elcmair, loved him though she had not seen him. And she went one time looking for him to the gathering for games between Cletech and Sidhe in Broga; and the bright troops of the Sidhe used to come to that gathering every Samhain evening, bringing a moderate share of food with them, that is, a nut. And the sons of Derc came from the north, out of Sidhe Findabrach, and they went round about the young men and women without their knowledge and they. . . Read More
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This book is responsible for a lot of things: For me becoming a professional storyteller, for me falling in love with Irish legends, and for me having an English vocabulary that is mostly full of terms for Iron Age weaponry and strangely spelled Gaelic names. There is really no other way to write a
"Gods and Fighting Men" represents Lady Gregory's effort to gather the scattered, disparate tales of the Mythological and Finnian cycles of early Irish lore, and to present them in a more or less coherent format, much as she did with with Ulster cycle in her "Cuchulain of Muirthemne". Unlike that ea
Very important cultural stories but a somewhat boring presentation. I think these myths and legends could do for a modern update in terms of syntax.
Gods and Fighting Men - The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland is an amazing collection of tales from the Mythological and Fenian cycles of Irish mythology, collected and translated and pieced together by Lady Augusta Gregory, in 1905. This is the only book still in print tha
By far, the most comprehensive collection of tales from the Mythological and Fenian Cycle that I have found. Unfortunately, it is a jumbled mess and not very well translated. For example a sentence will be as follows: Nuada said, "We are all here," he said. That is a slightly comical mock example bu
Gregory's versions of the myths are written with the music that can be missing from more recent tellings, rather in the same way that the Good News Bible loses the lyricism of the King James. Her arrangements are more demur than Kinsella's, but this is part of their charm.
Unpronounceable names, shape-shifting, fighting, profound oaths, fighting, magic cauldrons, fighting, hunting strange beasts, even more fighting, and all rounded off with a rejection of Christianity. What more do you want?
This is fantastic mythology. I love ireland and anything irish and despite that, I would have love this book anyway because this type of mythology has amazing aspects and elements I haven't read before. There's something about the irish style of storytelling and stories that have been passed down, s
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Po