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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rise thou, and depart from this Boar," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What claim wilt thou bring why I should do this?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Conall," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Ket," }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now let men come to contend for renown with me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I claim a boon from thee if I give thee thy life, O Conor!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I choose freely to grant that boon," }, { "from": "human", "value": "said Ferloga." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take me with thee to Emain Macha, and a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sick-bed of Cuchulain, the latter part of which is also known as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jealousy of Emer, is preserved in two manuscripts, one of which is the eleventh-century Leabhar na h-Uidhri, the other a fifteenth century manuscript in the Trinity Co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell her that it goeth better with me from hour to hour;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the festival be held! cried the men of Ulster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and this he said because Fergus was the foster-father of Cuchulain, and Conall was his comrade. Then said Sencha:" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yoke for us the chariot, O Laeg! said Cuchulain. And Laeg yoked the chariot at that, and Cuchulain went into the chariot, and he cast his sword at the birds with a cast like the cast of a boomerang, so that they with their claws and wings flapped against the water. And they seiz...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, said Fergus," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and a little after that Cuchulain came from his sleep." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What hath happened to thee? said the men of Ulster; but he had no power to bid greeting to them." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who art thou, then, thyself? said the men of Ulster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am Angus, the son of Aed Abra, he answered; and the man then left them, nor did any of them know whence it was he had come, nor whither he went. Then Cuchulain sat up, and he spoke ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What wilt thou do now? said Liban;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go, he answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That is no hard matter to tell thee, she answered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spirit of Labraid is gloomy to-day, said Liban," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go and greet him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou speakest not rightly, O lady," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let now thy mind be appeased, said the lady Liban to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Laeg, the charioteer of Cuchulain, is here; and Cuchulain hath sent word to thee that he will come to join thy hosts." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome, O Laeg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do thou go, O Laeg! said Cuchulain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ill hath it been what thou hast done, O youth! she said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shame upon thee! she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not go thither at a woman's call, said Cuchulain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let Laeg then go, said the lady," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let him depart, then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is it, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It pleased him not, said Laeg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was indeed from me that the message was sent, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come and enter Where Failbe doth dwell." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who art thou? said that lady," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For strange thou art here; But if Him of Murthemne Thou servest, draw near." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Comes he hither, Of Dechtire who came?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The quest then is a good one? said Cuchulain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is goodly indeed, said Laeg," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would I could see--'twould be a marvel strange-- Yet, if I saw it, dear would be that wonder, if to Cuchulain's form thy form could change." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is there now set for us to do? said Cuchulain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No hard matter to answer, said Labraid;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They went out then, and they came to the army, and they let their eyes wander over it; and the host...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear now, said Laeg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Laeg," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look now, O Laeg! she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What sight is that of which thou speakest?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have no fear, said Cuchulain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In good sooth, answered Emer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and her grief weighed heavily upon her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By my word, said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O lady! he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By my troth, answered Fand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said she," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And Cuchulain saw the lady as she went from him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let none of you stir! cried he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aye, indeed, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let that maiden be slain! cried out the young men of Ulster; but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so! said Conor;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Levorcham, said Deirdre," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dignity and good fortune to thee! said Levorcham;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall never be in good h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fair is the young heifer that springs past me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well may the young heifers be great, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast, as thy bull, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would choose betwee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, they said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There shall evil come on thee from this, said they;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not so! said the king," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Depart hence! said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said they," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let them come to us then, said Conor," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is better their protection...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is welcome news for us, they said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whom dost thou hate the most, said Conor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thee thyself, she answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, said Conor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ha, Deirdre, said Conor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah Deirdre! it is the glance of a ewe when set between two rams that thou castest on me and on Eogan!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Combat at the Ford, the best-known episode of the Irish romance or romantic epic, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "War of Cualnge, will hardly be, by Irish scholars, considered to want a reference. It is given in the Book of Leinster, which cannot have been written...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "recall the French" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beausire ; it may be also noted that these compliments are paid even when Ferdia is protesting against Cuchulain's reproaches; s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "War of Cualnge" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hound." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would be better for thee to stay! said the charioteer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be thou silent, O my servant!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my servant! said Ferdia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my servant! said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The horses are harnessed, said the charioteer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arise now, O Ferdia! said the servant," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my servant! said Ferdia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my friend Ferdia! said Cuchulain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And, O my friend Ferdia! said Cuchulain" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To what weapons shall we next resort, O Cuchulain?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou hast the choice of weapons until the night, said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, said Ferdia," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What weapons shall we turn to to-day, O Ferdia? said Cuchulain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou hast the choice of weapons until the night, answered Ferdia," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us then, said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ill dost thou appear to me to-day, O Ferdia! said Cuchulain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thy hair hath been darkened to-day, and thine eye hath been dimmed, and the form and the features and the visage that thou art wont to have are gone from thee." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us desist from this now, O Cuchulain!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us cease indeed, said Cuchulain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my friend Laeg! said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mark those noble, rapidly changing, wonderful feats which Ferdia displays, and I know that all of those feats will in turn be tried upon me; and for this reason if it be I who begin to go backwards th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thine is the choice of weapons until the night, said Ferdia." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, said Cuchulain," }, { "from": "human", "value": "[FN#58]" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us do so indeed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! said Laeg," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said Ferdia." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have my death of that; and I have but breath enough to say that thou hast done an ill deed against me. It was not right that thy hand should be that by which I should fall." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rise up now, O Cuchulain! said Laeg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How shall I be the better for arising, O my servant! said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O my friend Ferdia! unhappy was it for thee that thou didst make no inquiry from any of the heroes who knew of the valorous deeds I had done before thou camest to meet me in that battle that was too hard for thee! Unhappy was it for thee that thou didst not inquire from Laeg, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, O my friend Laeg! said Cuchulain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come ye all to fight German," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come now, Cuchulain, said Laeg," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now indeed will we depart, O my friend Laeg! said Cuchulain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "COMBAT AT THE FORD" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tain bo Cuailnge, one, obviously older, represented by the eleventh-century MS. Leabhar na h-Uidhri (L.U.), and the fourteenth-century MS. Yellow Book of Lecan (Y.B.L.); the other, obviously younger, by the twelfth-century Book of Leinster (L.L.), was pointed out by Professor He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tain bo Cuailnge" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "that this conclusion does not enable us to declare dogmatically (1) that all portions of the L.U.-Y.B.L. version must go back to the eighth century; (2) that all portions of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tain bo Cuailnge has been translated by Miss Winifred Faraday (Grimm Library, No. xvi. 1904). In her Introduction (p. xvii.) Miss Faraday argues against the assumption" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and questions" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The truth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ferdiad" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is thus Fer Diad will come to seek you, with new beauty of plaiting and haircutting and washing and bathing.... It would please me if you went to the place where you will got the same adorning for yourself, to the place where is Emer of the Beautiful Hair.... So Cuchulain wen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tain" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By a means that he devised, do airec memman, lit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So that she became well-nourished, &c., lit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "sult probably means" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and feth" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "West of Alba is literally" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "iar n-Albai: iar is, however, also used in the sense of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Da Airbrech in line 12 may mean" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Labraid the Tracker." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That he desired full knowledge of. There seems to be something with the Irish here; the word is co fessta which could only be third singular subj. pass." }, { "from": "human", "value": "which does not ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So long as they were, not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The choking misery, &c., lit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "His burial mound," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is reported." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And great gain, &c." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Were collecting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "not" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wrought a great healing, &c. Irish, ro lessaig," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Windisch);" }, { "from": "human", "value": "For fear of danger. Ba...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fairy Mound of Croghan. Irish, co sith sínighe Cruachan; for sínighe read Maighe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three wands of yew." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hath smitten thee, rotirmass for ro-t-ormaiss," }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fairy host, &c." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Since he for a long time, &c.," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To gaze at her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it shall not be in the abode, &c." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and no" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ": the image would be better, but it is not the Irish. Barr is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and folt is" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in the first case unless it does so in the second. The idea in the first case seems to be that the hosts are reflecte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He ascended. Fosrocaib for sosta: fosrocaib is an unknown compound (=fo-sro-od-gaib). Perhaps frisocaib for sosta," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Casting their light on every side, cacha air di = cacha airidi," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If thou dost...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eochaid arose, Atrigestar Eochaid. Strachan thinks it much more likely that this is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eochaid feared him, the verb coming from atagur. It is, however, just possible that the word might be a deponent form from atregaim," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All things that seemed good, &c., lit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been accustomed to get what seemed good to thee," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anger for anger," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In order that Eochaid should stand i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Place on the land, place close on the land, very red oxen, heavy troop which hears, truly manlike ? troops, strong heavy placing of trees, very red . . . is led past them with twisted wattles, weary hands, the eye slants aside (squints) because of one woman. To you the vengeance...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crimthann Nia Nair has said (A.O.). Nia is" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why wouldest thou talk to a woman if something were not amiss? (A.O.)." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why dost thou speak against a woman unless something fails on that account" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By him Ireland (shall be roused) over the peo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pierced through with a spear. The different ways in which Ket claims to have conquered his rivals or their relations may be noted; the variety of them recalls the detailed descriptions of wounds and methods of killing so common in Homer. There are seven victories claimed, and in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Courtship of Emer; Cuscrid makes a third with the same two principal champions in the early part of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sick-bed; Eogan mac Durthacht is the slayer of the sow of Usnach in the old version of that tale; and Celtchar mac Uitechar is the M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Samhain. Samhain was held on November 1st, and on its eve," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hallow-e'en" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Combat at the Ford" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Their three blemishes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like the cast of a boomerang." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I deem it as being by me that the distribution was made. The words" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I deem it" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dun Imrith nor yet to Dun Delga. Dun Imrith is the castle in which Cuchulain was when he met the War-Goddess in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Apparition of the Morrigan, otherwise called the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tain bo Regamna." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Near the entrance of the chamber in which Cuchulain lay. It does not yet seem certain whether imda was a room or a couch, and it would seem to have both meanings in the Antiquarian form of this story. The expression forsind airiniuch na imdai which occurs here might be rendered"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plain of Cruach. Cromm Cruach is the name of the idol traditionally destroyed by St. Patrick in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lives." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hath released her, Irish ros leci. These words are usually taken to mean that Manannan had deserted Fand, and that she had then turned to Cuchulain, but to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Said Liban. The text gives" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This seems to be a scribal slip: there is a similar error corrected on page 79, line 21, where the word" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fand is written" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "E...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fand. The derivations of the names of Fand and of Aed Abra are quite in keeping with the character of the Antiquarian form, and would be out of place in the other form of the romance. It may perhaps be mentioned that the proper meaning of Abra is" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "if Windisch's Dictionary is to be followed; line 5 would seem to begin" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(oirgniu); and line 7 should begin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Labraid the swift hand-on-sword-of-ba...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chased thee away" } ]