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11. 'A beauty of a wondrous land,Whose aspects are lovely,Whose view is a fair country,Incomparable is its haze. 12. 'Then if Aircthech 1 is seen,On which dragonstones 2 and crystals dropThe sea washes the wave against the land,Hair of crystal drops from it...

Mit der intuitiven Weitsicht der Winde erkenne ich, dass die Natur uns Mutter und Vater ist, dass der Kreis des Lebens uns Lehrer ist und dass diese Erkenntnis uns alle verbindet. Durch die reinigende Kraft der Flamme erlebe ich, die Stärke meines Glaub...

The Voyage of Bran Son of Febal to the Land of the Living AN OLD IRISH SAGA NOW FIRST EDITED, WITH TRANSLATION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY, BY Kuno Meyer London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand [1895]

THE old-Irish tale which is here edited and fully translated 1 for the first time, has come down to us in seven MSS. of different age and varying value. It is unfortunate that the oldest copy (U), that contained on p. 121a of the Leabhar na hUidhre, a MS. writ...

Imram Brain maic Febail, ocus a Echtra andso sís 1. ’TWAS fifty quatrains the woman from unknown lands sang on the floor of the house to Bran son of Febal, when the royal house was full of kings, who knew not whence the woman had come, since the ramparts ...

silver with white blossoms, nor was it easy to distinguish its bloom from that branch. Then Bran took the branch in his hand to his royal house. When the hosts were in the royal house, they saw a woman in strange raiment on the floor of the house. ’Twas then...

6. 'Feet of white bronze under itGlittering through beautiful ages. 1Lovely land throughout the world's age,On which the many blossoms drop. 7. 'An ancient tree there is with blossoms,On which birds call 2 to the Hours. 3’Tis in harmony it is their wont...

   16. At sunrise there will comeA fair man illumining level lands;He rides upon the fair sea-washed 1 plain,He stirs the ocean till it is blood. 17. 'A host will come across the clear sea,To the land they show their rowing;Then they row to the conspicuous...

21. 'There will come happiness with healthTo the land against which laughter peals,Into Imchiuin at every seasonWill come everlasting joy. 22. 'It is a day of lasting weatherThat showers silver on the lands, 1A pure-white cliff on the range of the sea,Which...

26. 'A great birth 1 will come after ages,That will not be in a lofty place, 2The son of a woman whose mate will not be known,He will seize the rule of the many thousands. 27. 'A rule without beginning, without end, 3He has created the world so that it is...

31. Thereupon the woman went from them, while they knew not whither she went. 1 And she took her branch with her. The branch sprang from Bran's hand into the hand of the woman, nor was there strength in Bran's hand to hold the branch. 32. Then on the morr...

34. 'What is a clear seaFor the prowed skiff in which Bran is,That is a happy plain 1 with profusion of flowersTo me from the chariot of two wheels. 15. 'Bran seesThe number of waves beating 2 across the clear sea:I myself see in Mag Mon 3Red-headed flowers...

39. 'Though (but) one chariot-rider is seenIn Mag Mell 1 of many flowers,There are many steeds on its surface, 2Though them thou seest not. 40. 'The size of the plain, the number of the host,Colours glisten with pure glory,A fair stream of silver, cloths ...

44. 'We are from the beginning of creationWithout old age, without consummation 1 of earth, 2Hence we expect not that 3 there should be frailty,The sin has not come to us. 45. 'An evil day when the Serpent wentTo the father to his city! 4She has perverted...

49. 'This shape, he on whom thou lookest,Will come to thy parts; 1’Tis mine to journey to her house, 2To the woman in Line-mag. 3 50. 'For it is Moninnan, the son of Ler,From the chariot in the shape of a man,Of his progeny will be a very short whileA fai...

54. 'He will be a stag with horns of silverIn the land where chariots are driven,He will be a speckled salmon in a full pool,He will be a seal, he will be a fair-white swan. 55. 'He will be throughout long ages 1An hundred years in fair kingship, 2He will c...

58. 'He will be--his time will be short-- 1Fifty years in this world:A dragonstone from the sea will kill him 2In the fight at Senlabor. 3 59. 'He will ask a drink from Loch Ló, 4While he looks at the stream of blood,The white host 5 will take him under a w...

     about the island. Whenever his man came past Bran, his comrades would address him. But he would not converse with them, but would only look at them 1 and gape at them. The name of this island is the Island of Joy. Thereupon they left him there. 62. It...

63. Home-sickness seized one of them, even Nechtan the son of Collbran. 1 His kindred kept praying Bran that he should go to Ireland with him. The woman said to them their going would make them rue. However, they went, and the woman said that none of them ...

'For Collbran's son great was the follyTo lift his hand against age,Without any one casting a wave of pure water 1Over Nechtan, Collbran's son.' 66. Thereupon, to the people of the gathering Bran told all his wanderings from the beginning until that time....