 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 520 ページ
...men of the Fianna were with him, and used to go hunting for him. And Finn gave him the treasure-bag, and told him his whole story. And then he said farewell...not give him his own name, but he took the name of Dei nine. Seven years, now, Finegas had stopped at the Boinn, watching the salmon, for it was in the... | |
 | Phillip L. Marcus - 2001 - 300 ページ
...'wise' may be intended to evoke associations with Finn MacCool. When Finn was a young man, he went to learn poetry from Finegas, a poet that was living...salmon, for it was in the prophecy that he would eat the salmon of knowledge that would come there, and that he would have all knowledge after. And when... | |
 | Paul Rhys Mountfort - 2002 - 226 ページ
...this feast, Finn is granted knowledge and the abilities of clairvoyance and prescience. The fact that poets thought 'it was always on the brink of water poetry was revealed to them' relates to the fact that water (especially rivers) were sacred to the goddess in Celtic Europe, and... | |
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Finn gave him the treasure-bag, and told him his whole story. And then he said farewell to Crimall, and went on to learn poetry from Finegas, a poet that was living at the Boinn, for the poets thought it was always on the brink of water poetry was revealed... 