#MythologyMonday: As #Bres refused beer to #Cairbre mac Éadoine, the bard paid him back in kind, leveling a (literally) blistering satire at the king, which forced him to step down: “Without food upon a dish, without a cow’s milk on which calves grow, without a house in the gloomy night, without storytellers to entertain him, let this be Bres’s future.” Stung by the satire, Bres felt his face break out in boils.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`