Aislinge Óenguso: Oengus’s Dream

My newest translation project, the text of the “Aislinge Oenguso”. This was a fun and interesting text to do, but a bit time consuming. I did make a few changes in the English, choosing to take a looser approach to the literal translations in order to preserve the flow of the story, and keeping all verbs in the past tense. You may also note that in the text the goddess Boínn is referred to with the definitive article as “the Boínn”; this reflects the Irish material where she, like the Dagda, is given the definitive “the” before her name. This convention seems to have been lost in English but is clearly present in the original Irish of the story.

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