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To indicate a woman’s overt sexuality in early Irish literature she would be given an epithet which translates to
“With gorse (coloured) pubic hair”
Just the colour not the texture (one hopes)
“With gorse (coloured) pubic hair”
Just the colour not the texture (one hopes)
Honest to god though sometimes you read some of the literature and you can almost smell the fragile masculinity.
Fergus in the Cattle Raid of Flidais apparently could only be satisfied if he had 7 women
Like, yeah suuuuuuurrrre Fergus
Fergus in the Cattle Raid of Flidais apparently could only be satisfied if he had 7 women
Like, yeah suuuuuuurrrre Fergus
Whereas famed Irish mythical hero Cú Chulainn sounds like a YouTuber when he says
“Provided I be famous, I am content to be only one day on earth”
“Provided I be famous, I am content to be only one day on earth”
Mind you we’re dealing with a universe here in which women get pregnant by drinking insects so...
Real question is. Why haven’t the Irish myths been made into films? They’d kick Marvel’s arse tbf
Real question is. Why haven’t the Irish myths been made into films? They’d kick Marvel’s arse tbf
Some of the names might put filmmakers off maybe?
Fiacha of the broad-crown is not as snappy as Ironman is it?
Fiacha of the broad-crown is not as snappy as Ironman is it?
Or there’s Tuathal of rough baldness
I feel that one may be doable though
I feel that one may be doable though
The lashings of incest in some tales may cause problems for Hollywood though...
Other elements are pretty visual though. Trying to envisage the filmic depiction of when Findach sees a woman named Créd and is so ‘moved’ that he ‘stains watercress with his semen’, she then eats it and gets pregnant.
Or Cú Chulainn being so pissed off one day that the only thing that could distract him from mass slaughter was when the queen and women of Ulster flashed their breasts at him
This film would probably have to have a European director
This film would probably have to have a European director
Who wouldn’t want to watch the story of Medb being killed by her nephew Furbaide with a piece of cheese from his sling.
Death by cheese is very lockdown
Death by cheese is very lockdown
Anyway read the tales from the most beautiful and possibly wackiest literature in the world (yes I’m biased).
Also home of some excellent poetry and I shall end with this short ode to a woman and her frailty...
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Also home of some excellent poetry and I shall end with this short ode to a woman and her frailty...
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There is a woman in the country
(I do not mention her name)
Who breaks wind
Like a stone from a sling
(I do not mention her name)
Who breaks wind
Like a stone from a sling
