#MythologyMonday: `Queen #Medb of #Connacht seems to have been eager to get rid of the king of #Ulster. Before marching into his territory the consulted #druid prophesied that her son Maine would kill king #Conchobar. None of Medb`s 7 sons had that name, so […]

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#MythologyMonday: `Queen #Medb of #Connacht seems to have been eager to get rid of the king of #Ulster. Before marching into his territory the consulted #druid prophesied that her son Maine would kill king #Conchobar. None of Medb`s 7 sons had that name, so she renamed them all.`
Source: P.
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#MythologyMonday: `On returning from her chief druid queen #Medb met Fedelm of Cruachan. When the queen of #Connacht, hoping for victory, asked what the future of the cattle raid would be, the druid Fedelm predicted, “I see crimson, I see red.” Her words […]

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#MythologyMonday: `On returning from her chief druid queen #Medb met Fedelm of Cruachan.
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#MythologyMonday: `Queen #Medb went to her chief #druid and demanded of him what her own lot in the Tain Bó Cuilgne should be. But the druid said only: “Whoever comes back in safety, or comes not, thou thyself shalt come.”
Source: Dru Magus #Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“

#MythologyMonday: `Queen #Medb went to her chief #druid and demanded of him what her own lot in the Tain Bó Cuilgne should be. But the druid said only: “Whoever comes back in safety, or comes not, thou thyself shalt come.”
Source: Dru Magus #Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“