Standoff With A Shapeshifter - Táin Bó Regamna
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In which Cú Chulainn and the Morrígan have a disagreement about a cow, and future events are foreshadowed.
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The description of the chariot reminds me of Yasaburo Shimogamo's cart except pulled by a stick-horse
I don't know what the tain poem should be but it NEEDS to include a line about Cu letting Medb go because he found her while she was peeing.
I'm not on UA-cam much these days so I just saw this, but you have no idea how great it is to see a new video from you!! I always love your retellings of these stories.
Thank you! I am also not on UA-cam much these days 😅 Hoping the next one will come a little bit more promptly than this one did, though.
An Irish curse could be cast by standing on one leg, closing one eye and pointing one finger at your intended victim (I’m guessing as a way of focussing your powers) so a one legged horse (impaled through the head by a single chariot shaft) might have certain associations for an Irish audience - ie, enough for them to suspect the woman is bad news. By extension, maybe she’s not just prophesying Cuchulain’s future, but putting a curse on him? Just a thought.
Good point! The loss of limbs in association with magic also shows up more physically with the children of Cailitín, who each lose an arm, a leg, and I think an eye, as infants and therefore are raised to be magical. (But that's more prominent in the later version, and late texts tend to get literal with ideas that are expressed in vague terms in the earlier ones.) The implication is definitely "nothing about this is normal, this woman is supernatural", and it could well be implying a curse, as you say. What seems odd is that Cú Chulainn doesn't seem to recognise that supernatural danger until the point where she transforms into the bird, and you would think he would have drawn those conclusions sooner. He behaves as if this is a normal horse/chariot situation, which is a fundamentally odd thing for him to do, as he definitely knows better.
@@FinnLongmanForgot about Calatin’s sons!
Re this particular story; I guess Cuchulain may just be pretending ignorance, knowing his antagonist will reveal her true identity sooner or later. It's hard to tell, either way.
@@aonghusfallon8327 Yeah, I really don't know. It seems odd that he'd pull his whole "sorry, I don't talk to WOMEN" thing if he knew it was the Morrígan the whole time, but it's hard to imagine he could be completely clueless, either. Definitely one of the story's weirder details!