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Yeah… there’s definitely some scribal error going on with this. The Book of Leinster version of the Book of Invasions might be the oldest one, and funnily enough, it doesn’t call Manannan “Manannan...

mac Lir can mean either son of the sea or son of Ler/Lir. Eugene O’Curry goes with the latter meaning (son of Ler) in his translation and one of his notes for The Sick-bed presumably because he...

Hmmm… still feels like it’s underplayed here. I mean, Manannan abandoning Fand is what caused Fand to seek out Cu in the first place. It actually took Cu a while to warm up to Fand. And his rejection...

No mention of how Manannan abandoned Fand, eh?

? Are you talking about the scene where Emer complains to Laeg about him and the Ulster men not finding a cure for Cu already when he would’ve done the same for any of them? Because after she does...

Nope, Manannan is mentioned in the Book of Leinster recension of the Tain here:



This quote is then cross-referenced with the line from the first recension to get the conclusion that Manannan...

Well, if my memory of the story in Gods and Fighting Men isn’t too off, Manannan did gender-bend one of his servants to help with fetching a girl he was interested in, so this is somewhat in...

I’m glad they acknowledged Manannan had given gifts to Cu. It looks like they don’t know what gifts those were, though. Can’t blame them. Much of that information is hard to find even in English....

I’ve seen only one book (That’s Ireland: A Miscellany) that claimed Nuada’s sword was the same as Fragarach, but that same book mixed up Lugh’s spear, the Tuatha treasure, with the Gae Assail, the...

I don’t know if you’re referring to these comments, warellis, but this is what I found on page 17 of the English translation of the HF 1 booklet concerning Archer and Sakura:



By the way,...

To be honest, Fionn is a difficult character to work with because the Fenian Cycle doesn’t have a strong central story. Moreover, Fionn is either absent or the butt-of-jokes in many Fenian stories....

@Byegod: Ah, thank you. (The potato within me is getting pretty bad for me to forget that, so I’ll probably drop out soon.)

I see what you mean. I guess TM might explain it by saying one is at an...

Yup, yup. You’re quite right. The pseudo stuff is a perfect example of disappointment that.

Would you mind refreshing me on her shadow fox form, by the way? My mind is feeling kinda like a potato...

Most of those descriptions work pretty well at getting the point across, yeah. Really appreciate the attention to detail concerning his normal hair, too. It’s not often that I see people mentioning...

That’s true. Koyan being what she is means the door is still technically open for Beast Tamamo/Amaterasu. I just wonder if this Koyan story might not diminish that event’s impact by stealing its...

You mean that’s what the text in this book says about his Riastrad features and his hair? Or are you referring to the descriptions in the Ulster Cycle sources (e.g. Book of Leinster, Yellow Book of...

Yeah… I think this might be it. Maybe the backlash to Tamamo’s portrayal in Extella sealed the deal in TM’s mind to never have her go Beast mode. But why have an OC mashup do it? Why not let the real...

Thank you for sharing that. I honestly hadn’t heard of the book before now.

Thanks, too, for sharing some pictures. It looks like the artist was trying to recreate Cu’s unusual hair coloring to...

The funny thing about the blue choice is that TM could’ve rolled with the Irish idea at that time of blue being related to sovereignty. And sovereignty is a pretty important concept in Cu’s mythos....

To be fair, most of the Irish characters they’ve included were, more often than not, described as having blonde hair in the sources. Red-headed Irish characters in those cycles were rare in fact. The...

I knew you weren’t talking about Heian. My thought was whether whatever happened in Heian could be used to explain the inconsistency in Goredolf’s knowledge. But thanks to Comun reminding me what...

Ah. In that case, pinetree’s thought of “Goff dumb” would be the more likely reason behind Goredolf not thinking anything of OG Tamamo in the Enmatei event, huh?

Unfortunately, I can’t remember right now, either, but I know what comment you’re talking about. My memory says it was fumei who translated that, so maybe he can clear this up for us.

They haven’t, this is true. It’d just be a matter of how long the effect that Dullahan mentioned lasts among the survivors.

Would the “Nasu is a hack” complaints start soon after that or much later?