10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «USNECH»
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology
Levarcham knows of only one such man — King Conchobar's nephew, Naoise,
one of the three sons of Usnech. Levarcham foolishly tells Deirdre of the young
man named Naoise. The maiden asks Levarcham to invite the young man to the
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Evans Lansing Smith, Nathan Robert Brown, 2008
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The Epics of Celtic Ireland: Ancient Tales of Mystery and Magic
Usnech's sons go to offer their services to foreign kings. But Conchobar, enraged,
instigates plots against them. Someone is forever trying to kill them. They cross
the sea and set themselves up in Scotland in a deserted place. No longer able to
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ardry upon them, for he put a great-waved sea along the field before the Children
of Usnech. And the men of Ulster two feet behind them, and sad it was that the
Children of Usnech wero overwhelmed in the great sea, and Naisi uplifting ...
Then the nobles of Ireland came as we have related to accompany Fintan to
Usnech, and they took leave of one another on the top of Usnech. And he set up
in their presence a pillarstone of five ridges on the summit of Usnech. And he ...
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The Sorrows: A Grand Retelling of 'The Three Sorrows'
that battle, the rest having kept away from it because they were sent out to patrol
Emain Macha's borders on the day before the sons of Usnech came to the hillfort.
But when they heard the story of the great battle, they rushed back to Emain ...
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Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the ...
... conn cetchatach's son connla, on the hill of Usnech. according to medieval
irish tradition, conn was high King of ireland, the hill of Usnech the centre of
ireland. connla is the chosen mate and in fact the only one pres- ent on the hill of
Usnech ...
Soon after, Deirdre happened to meet Noise, son of Usnech, who was the exact
image of her ideal lover, and initially she offered herself to him openly. But he,
like Diarmaid, had principles and rejected her, for he could not look at a girl who
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The Wisdom of the Celts
—IRELAND, 8TH CENTURY From The Exile of the Sons of Usnech: The story of
Deirdre, which appears in The Exile of the Sons of Usnech, is one of the most
famous—and most tragic—love stories in the Irish Ulster Cycle. In this tale, the ...
Philosophical Library, 2010
“I bear a message from Conor, the king of the Ulaid. for Naisi, eldest son of
Usnech. He must show himself." Every shred of Naisi—mind, body, heart—had
already sprung into movement without pausing to absorb the startling stab of
adrenaline ...
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The Poet's Ogam: A Living Magical Tradition
And these are the trees which grew up from those berries: the Ancient Tree of
Tortu and the tree of Ross, the tree of Mugna and the Branching Tree of Dathe,
and the Ancient Tree of Usnech.' Fintan says of the being 'he was an angel of
God, ...
