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Post by trescuinge on Apr 26, 2016 22:16:31 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on May 13, 2016 6:18:02 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 19, 2016 13:20:33 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 27, 2016 22:31:07 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 31, 2016 17:45:32 GMT -5
Gallarus Oratory in County Kerry... *Painting by Jim Fitzpatrick and John Quigley.
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Post by deuce on May 31, 2016 17:48:53 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on May 31, 2016 18:04:26 GMT -5
The word of the week on eDIL is:
DANT-MÍR is obviously a combination of DANT 'tooth' + MÍR 'morsel' but the concept of the 'dant-mír' is poorly understood. The few attestations we have suggest that the term refers to a piece of food which was put between the teeth of the dead. In a fragment of text on the death of Finn mac Cumaill, for example, a 'fer dubh' (dark/gloomy man) insists that a piece of fish is given as a 'dant-mír' to Finn's decapitated head.
Interesting that it is a dark man that gives the dant mír to Finn.
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Post by deuce on Jul 14, 2016 12:30:17 GMT -5
Jim Fitzpatrick is the greatest painter the Irish have produced. His painting of St. MacDara's Isle off County Galway:
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Post by deuce on Jul 28, 2016 17:06:43 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jul 30, 2016 8:17:39 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 8, 2016 12:33:32 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Aug 8, 2016 18:38:29 GMT -5
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Post by valeriaspirit on Aug 15, 2016 13:40:28 GMT -5
Hi, Guys - In consideration of the current Rio Olympics and the consequent interest in the nation of Brazil, Peter & Sandra's Medievalverse newsletter has the following, which includes a link to the early 20th. century lecture by Roger Casement when he was a British consul to Belem do Para, at the mouth of the Amazon: Hy-Brassil: Irish origins of Brazil August 14, 2016 By Medievalists.net Hy-Brassil: Irish origins of Brazil By Roger Casement Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2006) [Illustrated by a map of] Brasil as shown in relation to Ireland on a map by Abraham Ortelius (1572) Abstract: The name Brazil could only have come to the Portuguese from the Celtic legendary name applied to the ‘islands of the blessed’, the Tír na nÓg of the land of the setting sun, which the Galway and Mayo peasant still sees in the sunset just as the Galician and Lusitanian wayfarers in Cabral’s day dreamt of it before their eyes had actually fallen on the peaks of Porto Seguro rising from the western waves. Here is the link to the article: www.medievalists.net/2016/08/14/hy-brassil-irish-origins-of-brazil/Valeria Spirit
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Post by deuce on Aug 18, 2016 10:41:27 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Aug 27, 2016 9:46:15 GMT -5
At the Battle of Mag Mucrama Lugaid Mac Con and his foster-father Lugaid Lága returned from exile with a British army to challenge the King of Ireland Art Mac Cuinn and the King of Munster, Éoghan Mór. Béinne the leader of the Britons kills Éoghan who also happens to be Lugaid Lága's nephew. Lugaid does not take the slaying of a kinsman lightly, even by an ally: ro mbuí Béinne Britt oc béim a chind de Eogan mac Ailell.a donarraid Lugaid Lágae. Is and asbert ar ra ngab ell chondailbe. Ó díb nguallib súas atacomaing Béinne .i. 1. ísel béim benas Béinne. Ardd béim benas Béinne. dotháet mo recht assa richt bemmend benas Béinne Britt. Dobert béim la sodain do Béinne dara munél co mbuí a chend for bruinni Eogain. Donairthe Mac Con ocasain. Olc ind imbeirt sochraiti sin a Lugaid ar se. Cumma duit or Lugaid dobersa cend ríg Herend duit indossa dara éissi Luid i ndegaid in madma sathúaid arridisi. co comarnaic fri Art conidro marb. & décmaing a chend de. Béinne Britt was striking off the head of Éogan son of Oilill and Lugaid Lága came upon him. Then a surge of family affection seized Lugaid and since Béinne had struck Eogan above his shoulders, Lugaid said: Low the blow that Béinne strikes High the blow that Béinne strikes My fury passes propriety At the blow that Béinne Britt strikes. With that he struck Béinne on the neck so that his head fell on Éogan’s breast. Just then Mac Con came up. ‘That is bad treatment for allies, Lugaid’, he said. "It doesn’t matter to you", said Lugaid, "Instead, I will soon give you the head of the king of Ireland." He followed the rout northwards until he met Art and slew him and struck off his head. See here for a synopsis of the story: www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Cath_Maige_Mucrama
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