#Wyrdnesday: `Elcmar's daughter went to the House of Arms, and her two sons with her, and a bed of healing was made ready for #Caoilte, and a bowl of pale gold was brought to her, and it full of water. And she took a crystal vessel and put herbs into it, and she bruised them and put them in the water, and gave the bowl to Caoilte, and he drank a great drink out of it, that made him cast up the poison of the spear that was in him.` #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#Wyrdnesday: `The young woman was the Kingship of Ireland, and she had a band of gold on her head, and a silver vessel with hoops of gold beside her, and it full of red ale, and a golden bowl on its edge, and a golden cup at its mouth. She said then to #Lugh, the master of the house: "Who am I to serve drink to?" "Serve it to Conn of the Hundred Battles," he said, "for he will gain a hundred battles before he dies." And the young woman left the vessel with Conn, and the cup and the bowl, and she gave him along with that the rib of an ox and of a hog; twenty-four feet was the length of the ox-rib.` #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#Wyrdnesday #LegendaryWednesday: Eri, daughter of Delbaith, told #Bres that his father was a king of the Fomor, Elathan, son of Dalbaech, and that he came to her one time over a level sea in some great vessel that seemed to be of silver, but she could not see its shape.` #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook