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The most charming interpretation and a favorite style of wordplay among German travelers in Ireland is the bilingual pun: taking the German word Finnland and styling it as Phinlan to mean "Fin/Dolphin's Waters" in the "Land of Fionn" (Ireland).
#Phinlan #finnmaccool #fianna #irishmythology #giantscauseway #celticmythology @IWAIreland @waterways_Irl #fionnmaccumhaill
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Rosemary Sutcliff re-made and re-told the sagas and legends of #Beowulf, #TristanAndIseult, the Irish heroes #FinnMacCool and Cuchulain (in #TheHoundOfUlster), as well as Homer's Iliad (in #BlackShipsBeforeTroy) & The Odyssey (in #TheWanderingsOfOdysseus)
#Celtic #MythologyMonday: #FinnmacCool is depicted as a magical, benevolent giant. In a #Manx Gaelic tale, Fionn and the Buggane (a Manx huge ogre-like creature) fought at Kirk Christ Rushen. As Finn fled across the sea, the buggane tore out one of its own teeth and hit Finn
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@SheffieldStar interviewed @ukjobbingactor @voiceoverchap last week about our title #FinnMacCool being nominated in this years #audies2024. Read the article here! We’re proud to have brought this title to audio.
They are said to be "the Oscars of the audiobook world". https://t.co/jP3P2hVSBa
#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: The #Irish heroine Ailna surrounded #FinnMacCool and his musician pal Dáire with a druid`s fog so that they could not find their way home. When the Fianna were finally able to locate Fionn, the wily Conan slipped a magical drinking horn that would
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#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: The #TuathaDéDanann `refined the art of brewing until the ale of their smith and brewer #Goibniu was strong enough to endow the drinker with immortality. #Irish epics connect ale with the festival of #Samhain, when the boundaries between this world
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: In both #Irish and #Manxic folklore #FinnMacCool is depicted as a magical, benevolent giant. In a Manx Gaelic tale, Finn and the Buggane (a Manx huge ogre-like creature) fought at Kirk Christ Rushen. As Finn fled across the sea, the buggane tore out
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: The Ceffyl Dŵr is a water horse in Welsh folklore. It is said to inhabit mountain pools and waterfalls. Even though it appears solid, it can evaporate into the mist. In one form of the legend the Ceffyl Dŵr, as a horse, leaps
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happen: one of his people was slain. This went on year after year until #FinnMacCool put an end to it. He killed #Aed from the #Otherworld, who had always killed someone from the followers of the courtship out of jealousy.
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#Celtic #FaustianFriday: Deceived by the splendid sight of Midac`s palace that was surrounded by magical rowan trees, #FinnMacCool entered and made himself comfortable in the grand banquet hall. Midac came in, stared at them, and departed without a word. It was then that
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: While #FinnmacCool was away, his wife had an affair. In the process, #Lomna, #Finn`s fool, caught her and was therefore killed by #Cairbre. On his return, #Finn only had to touch his wisdom tooth with his thumb to find out the name of the murderer.
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#Celtic #FairytaleTuesday: #FinnMacCool’s sister, #Uirne, was cursed by a jealous rival and turned into a bitch. After whelping Bran and Sceolan, Uirne was restored to human form, but her twin children (variously described as daughters or sons), remained trapped in canine
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a 1/2
#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: Deceived by the splendid sight of Midac`s palace that was surrounded by magical rowan trees, #FinnMacCool entered and made himself comfortable in the grand banquet hall. Midac came in, stared at them, and departed without a word. It was then that
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: While #FinnmacCool was away, his wife had an affair. In the process, #Lomna, #Finn`s fool, caught her and was therefore killed by #Cairbre. On his return, #Finn only had to touch his wisdom tooth with his thumb to find out the name of the murderer.
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#Celtic #WyrdWednesday: Bran was born a dog because #FinnMacCool’s sister, Uirne, was cursed by a jealous rival and turned into a bitch. After whelping Bran and Sceolan, Uirne was restored to human form, but her twin children (variously described as daughters or sons),
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a 1/2
why this had to happen could never be solved by #FinnMacCool.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
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#Celtic #FolkloreSunday: Isn`t it interesting that #Ireland’s two most legendary heroes, were both taught their warrior skills by women? #FinnMacCool was raised in secret in the forests of the #SliabhBloomMountains by his #druidess aunt, #Bodhmall, and warrior woman,
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Liath Luachra & Bodhmall doing some of their everyday homesteading, with a lil’ help from Fionn.
#FestivalOfSleepDay #Celtic #MythologyMonday: The #Irish heroine Ailna surrounded #FinnMacCool and his musician pal Dáire with a druid`s fog so that they could not find their way home. Then #fairy music arose from within the fog, and they fell asleep.
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In Celtic myth a druid could wrap themselves in #fog to pass unseen. Féth fíada (lord of the mist) was sometimes a literal cloak.
#FinnMacCool’s sister, #Uirne, was cursed by a jealous rival and turned into a bitch. After whelping Bran and Sceolan, Uirne was restored to human form, but her twin children (variously described as daughters or sons), remained trapped in canine bodies. Yellow-footed and
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney: In a field near #DunollieCastle stands Clach a Choin, the “Dog Stone”. Legend has it that this was where the ancient heroic warrior of #Celtic #mythology #FinnMacCool (Fingal) would chain his massive dog #Bran. As it circled and struggled it wore a 1/2
#Celtic #FaustianFriday: The hero #FinnMacCool and his warrior band, the #Fianna, killed #Dryantore’s three sons as well as the husband of his sister #Ailna. This giant then set out to punish the murderers. After snaring them in a #druid`s fog that Ailna created, Dryantore
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#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: A nephew of #FinnMacCool and hunter for the fair Gráinne, the Fianna hero #Caílte, was a poet who entertained after the evening meal with recitations and song. He was also an athlete renowned for his fleetness of foot.
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Cailte mac Rónáin, the fastest warrior of the Fianna - nephew of Fionn mac Cumhaill, a warrior and a member of the fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. Described as being able to run at remarkable speed & communicate with animals.
#FairyTaleTuesday
#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: #Oisin, `the little fawn`, was found as a naked boy of about seven by his father, #FinnMacCool, on the old magic mountain #Benbulbin. He became a warrior-poet of the #Fianna, living 300 years in the land of eternal youth #TírNanÓg.
Benbulbin in Yeats country. Stunning
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