NeuKelte on Nostr: #Celtic #MythologyMonday: The Lúin Cheltchair was borne by one of the warriors who ...
#Celtic #MythologyMonday: The Lúin Cheltchair was borne by one of the warriors who assailed Queen Medb, who fought Cú Chulainn, and her guards spoke what they saw that night:
“A great warrior, his spear reaches to the height of his shoulder. When its spear-heat seizes it, he strikes the butt of the great spear across the palm, so that the fill of a sack-measure of fiery tinder-sparks bursts out over its blade and over its tip, when its spear-heat takes hold of it.
Before him there is a cauldron of black blood, of dreadful liquid, prepared by night by his sorcery from the blood of dogs and cats and druids, in order that the head of that spear might be dipped in that poisonous liquid when its spear-heat comes to it”
Source: The Spear of Fire | Tales from the Ulster Cycle By the Emerald Isle
“A great warrior, his spear reaches to the height of his shoulder. When its spear-heat seizes it, he strikes the butt of the great spear across the palm, so that the fill of a sack-measure of fiery tinder-sparks bursts out over its blade and over its tip, when its spear-heat takes hold of it.
Before him there is a cauldron of black blood, of dreadful liquid, prepared by night by his sorcery from the blood of dogs and cats and druids, in order that the head of that spear might be dipped in that poisonous liquid when its spear-heat comes to it”
Source: The Spear of Fire | Tales from the Ulster Cycle By the Emerald Isle