Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . ^ One day we shall delight in the remembrance of these quotation is from Vergil, Mn i. 203 Sacred poet is atranslation of the vates sacer of The Offering of Diuran the Rhymer 330 THE HOME-COMING Then Maeldan went to his own home and kindred,and Diuran the Rhymer took with him the piece ofsilver that he had hewn from the net of the pillar, andlaid it on the high altar of Armagh in triumph andexultation at the miracles that God had wrought forthem. And they told again the story of all that hadbefallen them, and all the marvels they had se
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . ^ One day we shall delight in the remembrance of these quotation is from Vergil, Mn i. 203 Sacred poet is atranslation of the vates sacer of The Offering of Diuran the Rhymer 330 THE HOME-COMING Then Maeldan went to his own home and kindred,and Diuran the Rhymer took with him the piece ofsilver that he had hewn from the net of the pillar, andlaid it on the high altar of Armagh in triumph andexultation at the miracles that God had wrought forthem. And they told again the story of all that hadbefallen them, and all the marvels they had seen bysea and land, and the perils they had story ends with the following words : Now Aed the Fair [Aed Finn ^], chief sage ofIreland, arranged this story as it standeth here ; and hedid so for a delight to the mind, and for the folks ofIreland after him.** * This sage and poet has not been identified from any otherrecord. Praise and thanks to him, whoever he may have been. 3Si CHAPTER VIII: MYTHS AND TALESOF THE CYMRY Bardic Philosophy THE absence in early Celtic literature of anyworld-myth, or any philosophic account of theorigin and constitution of things, was noticedat the ope
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