For as long as I can remember I have loved poetry. From Mother Goose and schoolyard rhymes to Emily Dickenson and Dylan Thomas, there is just something about the flow and rhythm of poetry that speaks to me. It allows more expression that prose. It speaks in imagery and emotion. And given my similar love of folklore and fairy tales when I saw that Jeana Jorgensen had written a book of poetry…
Monthly Archives: February 2025
What We Know About Manannán mac Lir in Irish Myth
What we know about Manannán mac Lir from Irish myth (a partial list):- He initially appears as a king of Emhain Abhlac (an Otherworldly island) across various stories in the Mythic cycle- He is incorporated as one of the Tuatha De Danann by the 11th century (the Fenian cycle of myths)- The Cóir Anmann calls him a god of the sea- He helps the Tuatha De Danann to go into the sidhe and teaches…