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Love to put placenames in the Táin into Google Maps to see whether it's plausible for Cú Chulainn to get somewhere and back in the time given and It Is Not but ☝️ there is a bus route.

The bus is running late this evening.

It does not seem like Láeg is with him until after this scene, so he does not currently have transport. He is taking the bus. Unfortunately, the bus will not be invented for quite a lot of years, so he'll be waiting a long time, even by Bus Éireann standards.

#tain bo cuailnge #trwth

i made a new addition to my cu chulainn / fer diad playlist:

i am going to hell

#this is the worst thing i've ever done and i can't stop laughing #cu chulainn #fer diad #trwth #tain bo cuailnge

The trouble with paying attention to all the tiny details of TBC that I missed last time I looked at these passages is that I don't really have anything to do with most of these observations. What does it mean that the woman Cú Chulainn runs off to meet at the beginning is identified as his 'concubine' in R1 but not in LL? And that some of the manuscripts imply this was a secret/hidden relationship? Is it significant that this is also the recension that mentions Emer, and so he has both a concubine and a wife in this one, whereas neither label is used in LL? Does it matter?

Who knows. Sure is a thing I noticed today though.

#tain bo cuailnge #there is nothing like trying to write a retelling to make you pay attention to tiny details #unfortunately there are just too many details in TBC and too much variation across recensions #so most of the task is deciding which of them to ignore #i haven't had to do the recension-juggling with my other retellings so that will be a fun extra difficulty #the whole process is going to be very different in general #trwth

Oh, yeah, I did start this book ten years too late and in the wrong POV actually. Knew it.

#this is in fact why i thought i should give it a shot #because i knew it would take about ten attempts to get right #switching timelines AND povs might help ? maybe ?#trwth

One thing I love about Táin Bó Cúailnge is that I've lost count of the number of times I've read it, the amount of hours I've spent poring over different recensions, all the details I've spent weeks teasing out -- and still, I can pick it up and notice something new about it almost immediately. It's been one of my main academic focuses for eight years now and I am still spotting things I never noticed! And will probably continue to do so forever!

(Today: some interesting details about Fergus in R1 vs LL and some references in LL to tactics/strategies in war that look to me like they might echo historical practices.)

#tain bo cuailnge #trwth #<- because i was contemplating the opening chapters of TRWTH and thus needed to pin down some details #and as such paid attention to elements i hadn't looked at before

the best piece of commentary the muddle ages has offered for this novel so far is that láeg is a millennial but cú chulainn is gen z and that's why láeg is always tired and cú is... Like That™

#the charioteer job market is tough and láeg has regrets #trwth #táin talk #laeg mac riangabra

"Do you not remember when you were fighting the harsh and grizzled Germán Garblas above the borders of the Tyrrhene Sea, and you left your sword with the enemy army? It was Cúchulainn who killed a hundred warriors to reach it and bring it back to you."

WELL NOW I'M HAVING FEELINGS ABOUT FERDIA AND CÚCHULAINN AGAIN. THANKS, FERDIA'S CHARIOTEER

#the táin #táin bó cuailgne #the tain #old irish #ferdia/cuchulainn #fer diad/cu chulainn #tain bo cuailnge #trwth

I am not actually currently writing TRWTH, but my brain was feeling sad because I haven't drafted anything new for over a year, and I wanted to scratch the itch without getting sidetracked by something completely new (especially as I'm supposed to be focusing on academic work at the moment). Since this is my next contracted book, and since I can already tell it's going to be an incredibly slow and difficult writing process with a lot of backtracking and rewriting, I figured I might as well play with some opening chapters (that I will probably subsequently delete). In case you were wondering.

I wrote about 2k today and hate almost all of it, but so it goes.

(And, yes, for those who've been around a very long time, I did write a version of this book in 2018, but, frankly, it both sucks and is structured very differently from this one, so while a few concepts and interpretations from that might work their way into the new book, I don't think any actual scenes will.)

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