⚙️ Roy Phillips#SundayLit Prompt: Physical appearance
Flann O’Brien’s description of Fionn mac Cumhaill is the mic-drop for physical appearance depictions in literature.
Kai Ash...he searched hither and thither for a fortnight, till at last he found that island, which was an island indeed with the sea over it and around it and beneath it. There dwelt the red-haired ocean-nymphs in glittering palaces among the sea-flowers...
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, by T. W. Rolleston, et al, Illustrated by Stephen Reid
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From the fairy tale "How Fin went to the Kingdom of the Big Men." (Jacobs, 1895)
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_Celtic_Fairy_Tales/How_Fin_Went_to_the_Kingdom_of_the_Big_Men
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Felix BernoullyIch bin allen Ernstes letztes Jahr einmal abends wieder aus dem Bett geklettert und habe nachgeschaut, ob die Rewe Bio Finn-Toasties als "nordische" oder "nordirische" Spezialität beworben werden.
Es ist "nordisch" und "Finn" meint wahrscheinlich Finnland, ich muss aber immer auch an Finn MacCool denken, den "legendary hero of old Ireland", den Flann O'Brien in "At Swim-Two-Birds" so schön auf die Schippe nahm.
"Nearer and nearer the music came, then ceased; but Fionn, gazing steadily before him, became aware of a gigantic figure standing some distance away, like a darker blot on the starlit darkness of the night ... Then through the darkness came a shaft of flame, blown from the enchanter's mouth, and Fionn raised his shield to catch it."
Excerpt from "Heroes of the Dawn" (Russell 1914) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Heroes_of_the_dawn/The_Enchantment_of_Tara
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