Can you Furrify this? I'd honestly like to see what you fellow furs got for furrifying Irish-Gaelic Mythology ~ it'd be interesting to see what you guys came up with.
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THE TALE OF CU-CHULAINN:
By Miracle-Of-Sound
(Retold By SimoTheFinlandized - 2021 CE)
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In the sodden winter snows
Of the Irish hills
Was born a Tuatha's child;
With a fighting heart
And immortal skill
And a spirit fiery and wild;
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Through a prophecy
He was bound and doomed
To a short and a glorious life;
And he bore the name
Of Setanta till
A famous fateful night;
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With his hurley in his hands,
His name would cross the land!
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Well his Uncle Connor
Who wore the crown
Of Ulster on his head;
In the home of Culainn
The smith sat down
For mead and mutton and bread;
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At the door lay the Cú,
The faithful hound
A huge and terrible beast;
When a thief or enemy
Trod his ground
Their bones bеcame his feast;
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Well Sеtanta joined them
Much later that night
And the hound, it leapt to shred;
But he raised his hurley,
And pucked the ball
Right through the poor beast's head;
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He spoke remorse
As the smith he cried
For his lost and murdered hound;
'I will be your Cú
Now from this night
Till another you have found'
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So he lay outside the door,
One eye watching on the moors!
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And the name Cú Chulainn
Was sung out loud that night
In a tale of rage and ruin and of might;
And the name Cú Chulainn
So furious and wild;
To remain in myth and memory
A legend of the isle!
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Cosantóir tragóideach
(Tragic guardian)
Fuil dhiaga Lú
(Divine blood of Lugh)
Finscéal an Chú
(Legend of the hound)
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Cosantóir tragóideach
(Tragic guardian)
Fuil dhiaga Lú
(Divine blood of Lugh)
Curradh lán le fiúnach
(Warrior filled with fury)
Finscéal an Chú
(Legend of the hound)
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Cosantóir tragóideach
(Tragic guardian)
Fuil dhiaga Lú
(Divine blood of Lugh)
Finscéal an Chú
(Legend of the hound)
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Cosantóir tragóideach
(Tragic guardian)
Fuil dhiaga Lú
(Divine blood of Lugh)
Curradh lán le fiúnach
(Warrior filled with fury)
Finscéal an Chú
(Legend of the hound)
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He trained on the Isle
Of Sky and Shadow -
Bore an abandoned son;
And met his battle-brother
Named Ferdiad
Many a tale they spun;
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Well he fought with the
Strength of many men
A beast who bloodied the fields;
In a bloodlust battle frenzy
His skin would shift and peel!
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His son would find him
As a grown man
But would not tell his name;
So he took a spear
To his own child
And doomed himself to shame;
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When the canny Queen Méabh
Attacked his land
To steal the bull of brown;
She sent out Ferdiad to fight
Cú Chualainn struck him down;
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Blood of son and brother fell,
He wailed and cried farewell
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And the name Cú Chulainn
Was sung out loud that night
In a tale of rage and ruin and of might;
And the name Cú Chulainn
So furious and wild;
To remain in myth and memory
A legend of the isle!
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Cosantóir tragóideach
(Tragic guardian)
Fuil dhiaga Lú
(Divine blood of Lugh)
Finscéal an Chú
(Legend of the hound)
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Cosantóir tragóideach
(Tragic guardian)
Fuil dhiaga Lú
(Divine blood of Lugh)
Curradh lán le fiúnach
(Warrior filled with fury)
Finscéal an Chú
(Legend of the hound)
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When the father
Of fair Emer
Refused to give her to wed;
Cú Chulainn tore
His castle down
And left the whole place dead;
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They loved each other,
Man and wife
Despite his many affairs;
Then he met the Morrigan,
Turned her down
And earned her vengeful glare;
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She weakened him
And broke his strength
With trickery and lies;
By feeding him
The flesh of dogs
Three crones were her disguise;
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The Queen and Lugaid
Saw their chance
To fight the Cú and win;
When he battled next
3 spears were thrown
And one tore through his skin;
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So he tied himself
To a mighty stone
By his guts and belt he hung;
And so he still stood
Right on his feet
Till the last breath left his lungs;
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And a light shone out so grand,
Till the raven came to land!
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And the name Cú Chulainn
Was sung out loud that night
In a tale of rage and ruin and of might;
And the name Cú Chulainn
So furious and wild;
To remain in myth and memory
A legend of the isle!
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Scaoil amach on ceol!
(Let loose the music!)
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