Shopping score 2

[rflong]

Not that I've gone insane and am trying to single-handedly reverse the recession or anything but I bought something else today which I wub and want to share. It is

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology

It's a fab Look-it-up-quick reference book, nicely illustrated and the shelves will not collapse under the weight of it. Divided into sections (Greece & Rome, Celtic World, Nordic Lands, Egypt and West Asia, South and Central Asia, East Asia - sadly no native American, African or Aboriginal legends - but a good over view of the classics) each section is alphabetised and cross referenced.

Plus it was only a fiver from the book club people at work. I also got books for the kids - a book of fairy stencils for herself, and Ripley's Believe it or not Search for the Shrunken Heads for him.

No, honestly. It's for him. Not me. I'm hardly looking at it at all. Much. :)

Comments

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

Wow! Wow! What a bee yooo tifful book :D Want, desperately want!

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

can you look and see if there is a god finbar in it.

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Nope. Neither is there one listed in Rolleston which is like my bible. Findabar, no Finbar. :(

There's St. Finbarr but I think you know that! :)

You could try looking here but there's no search facility so it might take forever - http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/index_irish.html

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

No - somewhere he shows up as an Irish god of the dead. There is also a single line about him being king of the fairies (if memory serves) but I can not find much more than that.

(FIN BHEARA (fin-vara) - (Also spelt Finavar or Finbar) ~ Ireland. The Fairy King of Ulster, sometimes called king of the dead. Although he was married to a fairy lady, he still courted beautiful mortal women.

And
Eithne was courted by many suitors, including Finnbarr, who insulted her with a lewd remark, for which he apologized. Because of the insult Eithne fasted for seven days, at which time she accepted milk from Angus's marvellous cow, brought from India, which she milked herself.)

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Oh well, there you go. I'll check on the variant spellings this evening, but he's a new one on me.

[rflong.livejournal.com]

A funny thing happened today re this discussion -
I must have heard the name (as a Fairy King) somewhere because I just realised (while reading through the edits for Soul Fire) that my Sidhe King is called Finbar!

So there you go.

It's amazing what we file away and forget about.