Arthur Herbert Leahy

Name: The Courtship of Ferb
Author: Arthur Herbert Leahy

The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

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“The Courtship of Ferb”, published in 1902, is a work by Arthur Herbert Leahy. It explores elements such as Conor, Maev and Gerg.

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ If from each man a bushel of gold and a bushel of silver and of bronze had been due, the rivets of the spear of each man of them, with the rings of gold that were about their hair, would have made good the debt. In the house were a hundred tables of brass. A brazen vat was upon the floor of the house, and it had been filled up with wine. For the whole time of three days and three nights had they been feasting; and, when Conor came to the door, only one half of the wine remained. In the house was Gerg and Buan his wife and Mani Morgor, with his troop of warriors, drinking the wine and the ale ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ The name of Fomorians was generally applied to pirates who appeared as late as the heroic period; and in our tale Conor is, in his attack on the house of Gerg, supported by [2] the Fomorians only, not by the warriors of Ulster. A poet, who sympathised with the defeated men of Connaught, could therefore with safety show his sympathy without any fear of wounding the susceptibilities of the ruling race of Ulster, provided he did full justice to the valour of the Ulster king who employed the pirate warriors. ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ In most of the romances connected with the Heroic Age, a general knowledge is assumed of the state of open or concealed warfare between Connaught under Maev and Ailill, and the kingdom of Ulster under Conor, supported by the celebrated heroes of the Red Branch, who are alluded to in the poem marked II. line 6: "As the lord of heroes known." An extant Ogham inscription to "Fraech, son of Medb," [1] found on the site of her traditional palace, has been supposed to refer to this queen; and, in later times, she was regarded by the Irish peasantry as the queen of the fairies ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ In the tale called the "Sick Bed of Cuchulainn," the name of Conor's wife is Ethne Aitencaithrech, apparently the same lady. She was sister to Maev, and the tale of her death in the river Eithne, which was named after her, is given in the ancient compilation of the Coir Anmann or "Fitness of Names," a sort of classical dictionary for names occurring in Irish romance. The story is also in the Dinnshenchas, a mediaeval Irish collection of legends of places. ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ Page 56.—Thirty fell by Fergus' side.— Of the eleven warriors mentioned here, Windisch, from grammatical reasons, considers that Fergus, Donnell, Corpre, and Angus belonged to Ulster, the rest to Connaught. This does not, however, agree with the Egerton version (p. 60) , where Donnell and Angus are, as pointed out by Windisch, immediate followers of Gerg. All the men in each group of thirty appear to have had the same name ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ Maev with her own hand struck down sixteen warriors, also the two Amalgaid, even the two sons of Conor. One hundred of the men of Ulster were slain; but four hundred of the men of Connaught and the people of Maev fell in the fight, and Maev was defeated. Then the men of Ulster went to the burg (where Gerg had dwelt) , and none of the folk of that burg escaped from their hands ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ Page 50.—On her silken braided hair.—The original is "Silken stripes upon her head"; the stripes may simply mean her hair, or may mean that, like the Roman deities, her hair was in fillets (vittæ) to show her divine origin. ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ Not long is it ere it is in the hands of strangers. Troops shall be (?) provoked. Heroes shall perish. Houses shall be destroyed. Battles . . . Duels shall be provoked for deeds with weapons. Thus shall it be. ”

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Arthur Herbert Leahy, The Courtship of Ferb (1902)

“ Upon the outer marches of thy kingdom is Mani Morgor, the son of Alill; three times fifty is the number of the warriors with him, and in Glen Geirg near to thee is he now, for his wedding with the daughter of Gerg is he come: the name of the maiden is Ferb. Thither hie thee against him; for to-morrow at the ninth hour shall the banquet be spread." "What," said Conor, "is the number of the warriors whom I should take?" "Gather together three hundred fighting men," said she ”

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