The Destruction of the Inn (The Ulster cycle, Band 4) - Hardcover

Eickhoff, Randy Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312870264 ISBN 13: 9780312870263

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2001

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Acclaimed historian and storyteller Randy Lee Eickhoff continues his modern translation of Ireland's most thrilling legends with THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INN. Part myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force, Eickhoff again brings to life the Ulster Cycle. In the tradition of the seanchai who passed these tales from generation to generation, and the seventh century monks who finally transcribed them, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INN is a beautiful, powerful tale.

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Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

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The Destruction of the Inn

Part One

Conaire's Last Supper at Da Dearga's Hostel

And you thought it wouldn't happen to you: the burning walls, the gasping for air, the place surrounded by a coming enemy that looks like you, and talks like you, with your same last name, armed to the teeth and shouting--all because you entered the kingdom naked, carrying a stone and were bowed down to by an admiring populace. Well think again; the curse is on you--prince, king though you are, and handsome and wise, with an arm that could kill thousands and a heart that could make them live. Didn't you know it's the severed head that speaks the loudest, the scattered remains of the dismembered hero that become the seedsof future salvation?Beware of the three red men in front of you. You cannot escape their duplicitous gaze. See them sitting at your table, eating your food, nodding their heads and smiling. They laugh at your jokes and call for wine. All the while wind is putting pressure on the door. Eat up. Be brave, be strong, be holy. Do what you must; do what you have to, when you have to. When have you ever done anything else? It is your fate, know it, and the fate of those who follow. It is only the whole green world that is watching.

--Mícheál O'Ciardha

Copyright © 2001 by Randy Lee Eickhoff

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312870264
• ISBN 13: 9780312870263
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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