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Ireland's Fairy Lore

Michael Patrick Mahon

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...Danaan became associated with them, is a task that still confronts us. CHAPTER XVIII Another account of the distribution of the fairy palaces. Origin of fairy belief. Aboriginal fairies or gods. Accession of Tuatha De Danaan to their ranks. Fairy palaces. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" on holes in the ground. Manannan. Bow Derg. Some of the Shees. Knock-Ma. Road from Headford to Tuam. Tuam Cathedral. IN the Christian redactions of the Conquest of the Sid, the Dagda is left out of sight altogether in the account of the distribution of the fairy palaces. The implication is that he was dead before this happened. Hence we have two versions of the story, agreeing substantially, but differing in matters of detail. There is another tract bearing on the same subject, and preserved in the "Book of Leinster." It bears the strange name of "Mesca Ulad or Intoxication of Ulster." It gives the credit of the distribution to Amergin. He divided Ireland between the conquerors and the conquered. "And he," the Mesca says, "gave the part of Erin that was underground to the Tuatha De Danaan and the other part to his own 'corporeal' people, the sons of Miled, after which the De Danaans went into hills and fairy palaces." There is another version of the same tract that agrees with the "Conquest." This version says, "the Tuatha De Danaan went into fairy palaces (sidbrugaib) so that they spoke with 'Side' under ground." There are other ancient stories such as the "Sick Bed of Cuculain" that represent the Tuatha De Danaan as visiting the palaces of previously existing gods. These were evidently the local gods of the aboriginal inhabitants, the tutelary deities of races that preceded the Tuatha De ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ireland's Fairy Lore. To get started finding Ireland's Fairy Lore, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Release: 2012

ISBN: 115234515X

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...Danaan became associated with them, is a task that still confronts us. CHAPTER XVIII Another account of the distribution of the fairy palaces. Origin of fairy belief. Aboriginal fairies or gods. Accession of Tuatha De Danaan to their ranks. Fairy palaces. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" on holes in the ground. Manannan. Bow Derg. Some of the Shees. Knock-Ma. Road from Headford to Tuam. Tuam Cathedral. IN the Christian redactions of the Conquest of the Sid, the Dagda is left out of sight altogether in the account of the distribution of the fairy palaces. The implication is that he was dead before this happened. Hence we have two versions of the story, agreeing substantially, but differing in matters of detail. There is another tract bearing on the same subject, and preserved in the "Book of Leinster." It bears the strange name of "Mesca Ulad or Intoxication of Ulster." It gives the credit of the distribution to Amergin. He divided Ireland between the conquerors and the conquered. "And he," the Mesca says, "gave the part of Erin that was underground to the Tuatha De Danaan and the other part to his own 'corporeal' people, the sons of Miled, after which the De Danaans went into hills and fairy palaces." There is another version of the same tract that agrees with the "Conquest." This version says, "the Tuatha De Danaan went into fairy palaces (sidbrugaib) so that they spoke with 'Side' under ground." There are other ancient stories such as the "Sick Bed of Cuculain" that represent the Tuatha De Danaan as visiting the palaces of previously existing gods. These were evidently the local gods of the aboriginal inhabitants, the tutelary deities of races that preceded the Tuatha De ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ireland's Fairy Lore. To get started finding Ireland's Fairy Lore, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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