Finn and the Old Man's House (Live) | 8:01
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson - Topic
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Few environmentalists in Ireand know what will happen if they kill those cows. Whoever does it will be very, very sorry. They will rue the day they kill all thiose cows,for there is a warning and curse upon them from the ancient ones.THey are fools to do this.
Read from the Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley).
When those ancient gods awaken, they will not like what they see and a lot of bad will happen.
English Excerpt:
“Then reared Liath (’the Roan’) of Macha under Sualtaim and dashed on to the ramparts of Emain. Thereat Sualtaim fell under his own shield, so that the edge of the shield severed Sualtaim’s head. The horse himself turned back again to Emain, and the shield on the horse and the head on the shield. And Sualtaim’s head uttered the same words: “Men are slain women stolen, cattle lifted, ye men of Ulster!” spake the head of Sualtaim.
(The warning)
“Some deal too great is that cry,” quoth Conchobar; “for yet is the sky above us, the earth underneath and the sea round about us. And unless the heavens shall fall with their showers of stars on the man-like face of the world, or unless the ground burst open in quakes beneath our feet, or unless the furrowed, blue-bordered ocean break o’er the tufted brow of the earth, will I restore to her byre and her stall, to her abode and her dwelling-place, each and every cow and woman of them with victory of battle and contest and combat!”
Gaelic Excerpt:
Andsein driuctrais in Liath Macha ba Sualtam, acus tanic reme fa urdreich na hEmna. Is and-sain imsói a scíath fein bar Sualtam, co topacht bil a scéith féin a chend de Sualtam. Luid in t-ech féin bar cúlu arís in Emain, & in sciath barsin n-eoch , & in cend barsin sciath. Acus rabert cend Sualtaim na briathra cetna: Fir gondair, mná berdair, bae aegdar, a Ultu, bar cend Sualtaim.
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Romór bic in nuall sa, bar Conchobar, dáig nem uasaind & talam ísaind & muir immaind immá cuard. Acht munu thaéth in firmiment cona frossaib retland bar dunadgnuis in talman, ná mono mae in talam assa thalamchumscugud, ná mono thí inn fairge eithrech ochorgorm for tulmoing in bethad, dober-sa cach bó & cach ben díb ca lias & ca machad, co aitte & co adbái fadessin ar m-buaid chatha & chomlaind & chomrai
http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/Cooley/SultaimWarnings.html
“Gaelic Excerpt:
Andsein driuctrais in Liath Macha ba Sualtam, acus tanic reme fa urdreich na hEmna. “
OOO .... now I get it, why didn’t somebody just say so ..
Finn and the Old Man's House (Live) | 8:01
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson - Topic
48 subscribers | 912 views | July 21, 2021
