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Medieval Irish Folklore (Live)
You're Dead to Me
The Death of Andrew Lloyd Webber
There is definitely something there about white horses and we see it in place names. The idea of a white mayor is very powerful in the Irish tradition. And then he also wrote things like there was a fish with three gold teeth that foretold the coming of the Normans. So it's part of a medieval tradition of miraculous tales. There may have been some kind of ritual killing of a king involved when the new man came and took over. Very stories abound that he was killed at Sowen, which is probably not particularly right. A reason for kings to be destroyed is because if you take it back to that sovereignty goddess idea, he was a bad king. He was an unjust king
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