Birds, Dreams, Sickness and Magic -- The Dream of Aengus (Aislinge Óenguso)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In which Aengus, son of the Dagda, dreams about a beautiful girl and then spends three years pining over her.
A bit of a different story to the ones I've told so far, and I took a slightly different approach, too, with more emphasis on retelling and less emphasis on explanation. Honestly, this story confuses me: it doesn't seem as weird as a lot of others, but then you get to the end and it's like, "Okay, but WHY?" And I don't have an answer to that. Why does anything that happens in this story happen? I don't know! It just does!
The text (in Old Irish, with modern Irish version, and translated into English) can be found here: iso.ucc.ie/Ais...
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This account is beautiful - to see a young, vibrant, impassioned storyteller doing what they were meant to do... thank you
Whats wrong with heterosexuality?
I just don't find it that interesting to read about. Bit overdone, you know? Not much left to say.
I'm kidding. But like... as someone who predominantly does queer theory (and monster theory), there's not much for me to work with in a text like AO, compared to many of the others. Hence I can't dig as deep into it, can't get as invested in it, and thus it isn't my favourite.
@@FinnLongman Ok I understand. I enjoyed your video. I am from Ireland, I am looking up different retellings of Irish mythology from various parts of the world, these stories are so old and have been told between generations for thousands of years. Sometimes I wish we had the original variations before christianity altered them to suit their ideology.
And sometimes I mourn over the loss of countless myths and stories that undoubtedly happened over the continual mass genocide of people and culture here over the 800 year occupation of Anglo Norman and eventual British rule. Thank you for your telling of this story.
Yey, you're back!
Just at the nice time to take a break from my thesis.
To be honest, I kinda like this tale a lot (though I can hardly explain why). I even wrote a short poem, inspired by it.
As for what to do next, I'd like to hear more about your thesis, but I see you are already converting it to be a paper. Other than that, I'm not sure.
Perhaps one day I'll present the article in a video as if it's a conference paper, haha. But I feel like my dissertation/article are a level of academia that's maybe not best suited to this platform, which I'm aiming to keep as accessible as possible to be suitable for a general audience...
We all have highly specific tales that we like for inexpressible reasons, I guess! I couldn't begin to explain why I like half the stories I like.