#Aonghus Óg’s lover visited him in dreams for a year, until he sickened with desire to be with her in the flesh. Aonghus found his beloved, #Cáer, and flew away with her in the shape of white swans whose song was so lovely that it enchanted people to sleep for three days and three nights.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Caer is a Celtic goddess associated with dreams & sleeping who takes the form of a swan every other y…
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#Grainne, the daughter of the High King of #Ireland, #Cormac mac Art, had agreed to marry #Fionn Mac Cumhaill. After first setting eyes on her groom, an old gray-haired hero, #Grainne forced #Diarmaid by means of géis to flee with her. They went on the run so they could escape Fionn’s wrath and be together, never sleeping more than a night in one place. After sixteen years of outlawry peace was at last made for #Diarmaid by the mediation of #Aonghus Óg with King Cormac and with Fionn. #Grainne bore to #Diarmaid four sons and a daughter.
While hunting, the Boar of Ben Bulben mortally wounded #Diarmaid. Fionn would have had the ability to save his former captain and friend, but hesitated until Diarmaid was dead.
#Grainne was at first enraged with Fionn, and sent her sons abroad to learn feats of arms, so that they may take vengeance upon him when the time would be ripe. But despite everything #Grainne made peace between Fionn and her sons, and dwelt with Fionn as his wife until he died.
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwF-6cf97c
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#Celtic #FolkloreThursday #NationalStoryTellingWeek: In the chase of Diarmaid and Grania, it is Fionn's hound Bran that warns Diarmaid of Fionn's approach. On #Samhain, t…
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#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: Deceived by the goddess #Bóand with the god #Dagda, the #Irish god #Nuada was further deceived when the son of that affair, #Aonghus Óg, tricked the leader of the Tuatha dé Danann out of the great palace Brú na Bóinne, the great tumulus on the River Boyne.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#Celtic #FaustianFriday: #Diancecht had inserted a prosthesis of silver for #Nuada's severed arm, but a black beetle lived in it, causing the king …
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#Aonghus Óg’s lover visited him in dreams for a year, until he sickened with desire to be with her in the flesh. Aonghus found his beloved, #Cáer Ibormeith, and flew away with her in the shape of white swans whose song was so lovely that it enchanted people to sleep for three days and three nights.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Caer is a Celtic goddess associated with dreams & sleeping who takes the form of a swan every other year. Irish God Aonghus saw her in…
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