#doris edel

[finnlongman]

"Cú Chulainn goes there alone, that is, in the sole company of his charioteer Láeg."

I am once again asking when academics will start counting Láeg as a person.

[finnlongman]

Today I'm reading this very interesting book by Doris Edel (it's effectively a close-reading of the key characters in the Táin, filling a much-needed gap in lit crit in Celtic Studies) -- I don't agree with all of Edel's readings, but some of them are offering some valuable new perspectives and it's certainly making me consider some angles I hadn't thought about.

Also, I got diagnosed with visual stress on Wednesday and now have this highly specialised piece of equipment known as a sheet of orange plastic -- and it's MAGIC. I genuinely didn't realise how much I was struggling with reading and understanding until someone put a sheet of plastic in front of a book and I found the words were actually making sense. Is that really all I needed all along?! Anyway I never want to read anything without help from my magic orange thing again, thanks.