Immran (Voyage) of Ma`el Du`in = Odusseia
GM 170._ |
lib.:v. |
Odusseia |
Ma`el Du`in |
cap. |
OCR, p. __ |
.a |
9: 47-8 |
Ismaros, city of the Kikones {/KIKon-/ is cognate with Latin /CICer/ ‘stork’} |
"birds, some black, some brown, and some speckled, who were all shouting and speaking with human voices" |
19 |
143 |
.a |
9: 223 |
Maron [who was (CDCM, s.v. "Maron") "a decrepit old man who only had the strength to drink and |
"an aged man on the island, who was covered thickly all over with long, white hair" |
20 |
" |
" |
-- |
sing" (like unto birds?)] |
" "And the birds that ye see on the trees," he continued, "these are the souls of my children ..."" |
144 |
|
.a |
9: 94 |
"towards Cythera" [Aphrodite "rose naked from the foam of the sea and ... stepped ashore on the island of Cythera" (GM 11.a)] |
A gigantic blacksmith {cf. blacksmith Hephaistos, the divine husband of Aphrodite} "causing the whole sea to hiss and boil and heave up around the boat." |
21 |
146 |
.a |
-- |
"Libyan promontory" [a sandy country] |
"the sand" |
22 |
147 |
.b |
9 : 208 |
"the high, laurel-hung entrance" |
"a single tree" |
23 |
" |
.b |
"devoured the carcasses raw" |
"swallowed him down in the twinkling of an eye" |
148 |
||
.d |
9: 462 |
"hissed" [with steam] |
"mist-like" |
" |
|
.e |
9: 528 |
"dear ram" |
"sheep." |
24 |
" |
.f |
"hurled a huge rock, which fell half a length ahead of the ship" |
"she flung them so that they alighted on the waves round the boat" |
149 |
||
.f |
9: 644 |
"the wave which it raised carried her swiftly to the island" |
"the stream never ceased to flow, and never changed its place, but remained spanning the island like a solid arch of water." |
25 |
150 |
.g |
10: 30 |
"silver wire" |
"silver net" |
26 |
" |
.h |
10: 107-11 |
"narrow entrance, is ringed by abrupt cliffs" |
"they saw a door securely closed and locked" |
27 |
151 |
.j |
10: 289-90 |
"The goddess set a mess of cheese, barley, honey before the hungry" |
"A dish of choice food and a crystal goblet of wine were placed before Maildun" |
28 |
153 |
.k |
-- |
"he gladly stayed ... until she had borne him three sons" |
"They remained in that island during the three months of winter. And these three months appeared to Maildun's companions as long as three years" |
154 |
|
.l |
10: 642-3 |
"a young ram and a black ewe" {sheep yield wool for yarn, which may be wound into a clew} |
"she went into the palace and soon returned with a ball of thread in her hand." |
155 |
|
.l |
10: 652-4 |
"for Teiresias to arrive drive off all other ghosts with your sword." |
"Diuran, drawing his sword, cut off the man's hand" |
156 |
|
.m |
"to sail from pleasant" Aiaia ["(‘wailing’)" (GM 170.5)] |
"she began to weep and lament" |
" |
||
.m |
"Persephone’s Grove" |
"an island with many trees on it." |
29 |
" |
|
.n |
11: 117-8 |
"lapped the blood gratefully" |
"squeezing the juice into a vessel, drank it" |
157 |
|
.n |
11: 151-3 |
"until he came to an inland region" |
"After many wanderings, we settled on this" |
30 |
158 |
.n |
11: 164-5 |
"he might enjoy a prosperous old age" |
"The old pilgrim" "with snow-white beard and hair, and all the other marks of great old age." |
" |
|
.p |
11: 735-6 |
"banquets at ease among the immortal gods." |
"they might eat of the sheep and of the other food of the island ; but to waste nothing." |
" |
|
.q |
-- |
"pulled out their wing feathers" |
"plucking out the old feathers" |
160 |
|
.r |
"promising him foreknowledge of all future happenings on earth" |
"Diurin ... remained so ever after, for as long as he lived he never lost a tooth or had a grey hair" |
162 |
||
.s |
-- |
"Some believe that there were only two Sirens; others, that there were three" |
"The aged bird ... rested on the shore. ... Now while the other two" |
163 |
|
.t |
"the strangest thing ... was her yelp" |
"all continually laughing." |
31 |
" |
|
.u |
12: 308 |
"sun-Titan" |
"radiant all over" |
32 |
164 |
.u |
12: 428 |
"roasted enough good beef" |
"I was cook to the brotherhood of the monastery" |
33 |
165 |
.v |
"wild-fig tree" {cf. fig-tree of god Yama} |
"graveyard" |
166 |
||
.v |
12: 501-3 |
"sucked towards Charybdis’s whirlpool" |
"ornamented drinking-horns" {by sucking in of sea by To`rr through a drinking-horn} |
167 |
|
.w |
5: 78 |
"sea-crows" ["sea-crows, or choughs" (GM 170.8)] ["chough ... houses the soul of King Arthur – who harrowed Hell (GM 98.3)] |
"one great towering mass of demons" |
168 |
|
.w |
"Parsley" ["parsley" (GM 106.h) is associated with "the drinking pool" (GM 106.g)] |
"keeping only a small wooden cup to drink from." |
169 |
||
.x |
"detained Odysseus on Ogygia for seven years" |
"For the first seven years, I lived on the seven cakes" |
170 |
||
.x |
"providing ... dried meat" |
"an otter brought me a salmon" |
" |
||
.y |
5: 374 |
"a huge wave" |
"the billows rage" |
173 |
|
.y |
5: 406 |
"disguised as a seamew" |
"a large falcon flew by" |
34 |
174 |
.y |
5: 448 |
"This veil would save him" |
"new garments were given to them" |
35 |
176 |
.y |
5: 597 |
"fell fast asleep" |
"rested" |
" |
|
.z |
13: 139-40 |
"stacking ... gifts beneath a tree" |
"Diuran Lekerd took the [votary offering], and laid it, according to his promise, on the high altar" |
" |
CDCM = Pierre Grimal : A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. 1990.
Odusseia 9 = http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey9.htm
Odusseia 10 = http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey10.htm
Odusseia 11 = http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey11.htm
Odusseia 12 = http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey12.htm
Odusseia translation from :- GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
liber:versus #s from :- The Odyssey of Homer, translated by William Cowper. http://www.archive.org/stream/theodysseyofhome24269gut/24269-0.txt
"The Voyage Of Maildun" In :- Old Celtic Romances, translated from the Gaelic by P. W. Joyce. Dublin, 1920. pp. 117-176. http://www.archive.org/stream/oldcelticromanc00joycgoog/oldcelticromanc00joycgoog_djvu.txt or (better) http://www.archive.org/stream/oldcelticromance00joyciala/oldcelticromance00joyciala_djvu.txt
[written Aug 2011]