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A CELTIC MISCELLANY ADVISORY EDITOR: BETTY RADICE PROFESSOR KENNETH JACKSON was born in 1909 and educated at Whitgift School and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read classics and archaeology and anthropology. He was a Fellow of St John’s College and a lecturer at Cambridge University from 1934 to 1939. He was Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and from 1950 until 1979 was Professor of Celtic Languages, Literatures, History and Antiquities at Edinburgh University. His most notable books include Language and History in Early Britain, The International Popular Tale and Early Welsh Tradition, The Oldest Irish Tradition, A Historical Phonology of Breton, The Gododdin and The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1957 and appointed CBE in 1985. Kenneth Jackson died in 1991; in his obituary The Times declared him ‘a master of all four of the major Celtic languages… and a world authority on most, if not all, of the subjects his Edinburgh chair called upon him to profess’. A CELTIC MISCELLANY Translations from the Celtic Literatures KENNETH HURLSTONE JACKSON PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11, Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Private Bag 102902, NSMC, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 5 Watkins Street, Denver Ext 4, Johannesburg 2094, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, England First published by Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951 Revised edition published in Penguin Books 1971 25 Copyright 1951 by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson Copyright © Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, 1971 All rights reserved Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser ISBN: 978-0-14-193523-2 TO JANET, STEPHANIE AND ALASTAR CONTENTS Preface Maps: (i) Ireland (ii) Wales HERO-TALE AND ADVENTURE Note 1. How Cú Chulainn Got His Name 2. Cú Chulainn and the Charioteer 3. The Killing of Edarcomhol 4. Cú Chulainn’s Meeting with Findabhair 5. Ceithern’s Blood-transfusion and Death 6. Cú Chulainn in the Valley of the Deaf 7. The Story of Deirdre 8. The Death of Conchobhar 9. How Celtchar Killed the ‘Brown Mouse’ 10. How Cobhthach Contrived his Brother’s Death 11. The Recognition of Ulysses NATURE Note 12. May-time 13. The Coming of Winter 14. Winter Cold 15. Winter 16. The Four Seasons 17. A Storm at Sea 18. The Hermit’s Hut 19. Arran 20. The Hill of Howth 21. Deirdre Remembers a Scottish Glen 22. The Ivied Tree-Top 23. Suibhne the Wild Man in the Forest 24. Suibhne Praises the Garbh 25. To May and January 26. The Birch-wood Bower 27. The Snow 28. The Mist 29. The Stars 30. The Burial of the Poet, Dead for Love 31. The Poet’s Arbour in the Birch-wood 32. To a Birch-tree Cut Down, and Set Up in Llanidloes for a Maypole 33. The Mansion of the Woods 34. To the Sun 35. To the New Moon 36. To the Moon 37. The Mountain Stream 38. Winter and Summer LOVE Note 39. The Dream of Oenghus 40. How Trystan Won Esyllt 41. Secret Love 42. The Jealous Husband 43. The Seagull 44. In Defence of Women 45. To Her Hair 46. Reconciliation 47. The Lover’s Doubts 48. Do Not Torment Me, Woman 49. The Hidden Love 50. Take Those Lips Away 51. Trust No Man 52. Happy for You, Blind Man! 53. Hate Goes Just as Far as Love 54. The Blackthorn Pin 55. The Indifferent Mistress 56. Parted Lovers 57. The Message of the Eyes 58. She’s the White Flower of the Blackberry 59. How Glad Are the Small Birds 60. Young Lad of the Braided Hair 61. At the Fiddlers’ 62. He Whose Hand and Eye are Gentle 63. The Black-haired Lad 64. The Laundress’s Sweetheart 65. Mary, My Darling 66. Kate of Garnavilla 67. The Ballad of Marivonnik 68. Fhir a’ Bhàta 69. The Slender Lad EPIGRAM Note 70. The Wayside Fountain 71. The Blackbird’s Song 72. The Hermit Blackbird 73. The Spring 74. Heather Flowers 75. Mountain Lakes 76. Sliabh gCua 77. Merioneth 78. The Pole Star 79. Night 80. Night and Morning 81. The Wind 82. The Storm 83. Thick Snow 84. The Snowfall 85. Flood-tide 86. Autumn 87. Winter Has Come 88. Women’s Tongues 89. Women’s Hats 90. The Proud Lady 91. The Twig and the Root 92. Love Gives Wings 93. Her Light Step 94. Like the Birch-tree 95. Lovelier than the Sun 96. Red and White Roses 97. Promiscuity 98. Dream and Reality 99. The End of the Day 100. The Boorish Patron 101. Finn’s Generosity 102. Weariness of Body and Weariness of Spirit 103. How Happy Are the Wild Birds 104. Quando Ver Venit Meum? 105. Sorrow 106. Woe Is Me that I Ever Was Born 107. Old Age Comes not Alone 108. Old Age and Death 109. Life’s Uncertainty 110. Thoughts of Death 111. Stealthy Death 112. Not Divided in Death 113. On the Tomb 114. The Lover’s Grave 115. For a Grave at Trawsfynydd 116. Epitaph on a Little Girl 117. Everyman’s Epitaph 118. On Two Shipwrecked Sailors 119. The Praises of God 120. Christ before Pilate 121. A Vain Pilgrimage 122. The Monk’s Mistress 123. On Mael Mhuru the Poet 124. Dinas Bran 125. Imperial Caesar Dead and Turned to Clay 126. The Court of Ifor Hael ‘CELTIC MAGIC’ Note 127. The Adventure of Conle 128. The Story of Lludd and Llefelys 129. Ruadh in the Land Under the Wave 130. The Creation of Blodeuwedd 131. The Magic Gaming-board 132. From The Voyage of Mael Dúin 133. The Magic Pigs of Cruachu 134. The Black and White Sheep and the Blazing Tree 135. From The Voyage of the Uí Chorra 136. The Three Werewolves from the Cave of Cruacha 137. How the Fenians Found the Fairy Hill 138. The Air Ship 139. The Burial of the Priest’s Concubine 140. Drowned Giantesses DESCRIPTION Note 141. Froech in the Dark Pool 142. Froech and the Fairy Women 143. Midhir’s Invitation to the Earthly Paradise 144. The Islands of the Earthly Paradise 145. The Arrival at the Earthly Paradise 146. Morning Sun 147. Sunshine through the Window 148. The Mowers 149. The White Lake of Carra 150. Iubhdhán’s Fairy House 151. Uncomfortable Lodgings 152. The Cliff of Alternan 153. Édaín the Fairy 154. Olwen 155. Gruffudd ap Cynan’s Wife 156. The Reign of Gruffudd ap Cynan 157. From The Misty Corrie 158. From The Song of Summer 159. You Are Whiter than the Swan 160. At the Battle of Magh Mucraimhe 161. The Battle of Ventry 162. The Monster of Scattery Island 163. St Brendan’s Vision of Hell 164. The Homeward Voyage 165. The Troublesome Gillie HUMOUR AND SATIRE Note
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