Lady Enelya
Tarkaan 
Royal Seeress
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Post by Lady Enelya on Nov 29, 2004 9:43:04 GMT -5
There was once a king called Lír which means king of the sea. He had 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Their mother died and he remarried a women name Aoife. Who was a sorceress. She was jealous of the love the children had from their father and so she lured them to a great lake and turned them to swans.
Out fo mercy she let them keep their beautiful human voices. when she returned to the castle she told Lír they had drowned and thier bodies swept away.
Lír heard from the corner of his kingdom that 4 swans sang beautifully on the lake and their singing eased pain so his court went to the lake.
End of part 1
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Post by piñata on Nov 29, 2004 9:50:30 GMT -5
Their mother died and he remarried a women name Aoife. Wow, I met a woman named Aoife once (she was working at the local theme park, Busch Gardens -- I'm not sure if she's still there, though, since they tend to have a high turnover rate there  ). Also, on a more on-topic note, I vaguely remember hearing that story when I was a little kid... I don't think I was old enough to realize it was Irish, though.  |
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Lady Enelya
Tarkaan
Royal Seeress
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Post by Lady Enelya on Nov 30, 2004 5:38:54 GMT -5
part 2
On arrival at the lake the swans went to the thier father and in their human voices told him of Aoife's treacery.
In anger the king went to Aoife and asked her what she feared most.
To which she replyed , "to be a creature of the air without form or grace."
And Lír waved his staff and called upon his Father the great god of the sea and Aoife's human form fell from her like a beautiful gown and she rose as a demon of the air bound to wander the earth to collect the tears of dying babies.
Lír and his court lived by the lake until Lír died and the swans sang in grief until the day 300years after thay had been changed that they knew they must leave
End of Part 2
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Post by Selvo on Dec 7, 2004 20:08:39 GMT -5
I have an Irish lore book, I picked it up in Kilkenny the lasrt time I was on the island
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Post by Predator-Fan on Mar 2, 2006 13:23:44 GMT -5
Hmmmmm.....I think I vaguely remember reading this. I'm trying to learn everything about Ireland everything down to the blarney *words* and to be able to pronounce anything that I read.
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