Chapter 1867 giant slayer(11)

The earliest surviving stories about Osamu are some manuscripts from the 11th and 12th centuries. However, this group of stories lasted for more than a thousand years because farmers living in the Scottish Highlands and Gaelic-speaking Ireland passed them down orally.

, they would sing these bardic songs while working in the fields or cutting firewood in the forest.

The song echoes in the beautiful and refreshing valleys and streams, the unexpected rocks and the quiet lakeside. It is full of adventures, romance and mysterious adventures, just like the Middle-earth world of The Lord of the Rings, but it is a little different.

.It is not completely compiled. At least King Commack, son of Art, is a real historical figure. Scholars studying ancient Ireland believe that the story of Finn and the Fenian warriors is generally historical fact.

But it is difficult to determine whether King At's captain Finn exists or whether there is a real character prototype behind it. Osamu is the name of the poet and the name of a character in the story. He is King At who is half of the Danai clan.

Captain, son of Finn. There were no foreign invasions in ancient Ireland, but this fairyland-like world had beautiful or terrifying supernatural powers. The main enemies of the Finnian warriors were them.

In the time of Finn's father Ku, the Dana tribe once competed with the Mona tribe for the leadership of the Fenian warriors. Among the Mona tribe there was a treasury manager named Lia, who held the title of Fenian warrior.

The treasure chest contains magical weapons and valuable jewelry handed down from the Dana period. He also gained the support of some Fenian warriors, which made Ku later die in the Battle of Knock.

near Dublin. Finn's mother fled to the mountains and forests after Ku's death and gave birth to a son, naming him Demna. However, when Demna grew up, people called him Finn or fair one.

Because his hair and skin were very light, and the first thing he did when he grew up was kill Leah.

Because she was afraid that the Mona people would find Demna and kill him, Finn's mother gave her child to two old women in the virgin forest to raise her and then married the king of Kerry. Finn luckily escaped.

Oedipus' fate was not to marry his mother.

After obtaining the treasure chest, Finn handed the items in the treasure chest to his cronies and uncle for safekeeping, and he went to learn the skills of a druid saint named Fenaga.

The sage lived by the river Boyne, and the fruits of knowledge from the hazelnut branches of the river fell into the river. Just under these branches lived the learned salmon called fintan, whoever ate it

This kind of salmon will be very intelligent. Fenaga tried to catch it many times before accepting Finn as his student, but all failed. After Finn became Fenaga's apprentice, Fenaga quickly caught it.

That fish. One day he caught the fish and gave it to Finn to roast. He didn't allow Finn to eat it at all, but only allowed him to tell him after it was roasted.

When Finn grilled the fish, Fenaga noticed that his skin color had changed and asked Finn if he had eaten the fish secretly.

Finn immediately said no, but when I put it on the grill my thumb burned and I put my thumb in my mouth.

Fenaga said to him, "Take this fish and eat it, because the prophecy has become a fact in your body. You go, I can't teach you anymore."

Since then, Finn has become very smart, as amazing as his strength and boldness. It is said that when he wants to predict something, he only needs to put his thumb in his mouth and bite it, and he will know what he wants to know.

During this period, Gorr of the Mona tribe was the leader of the Finnian warriors. However, Finn, who had grown up and returned from his studies, wanted to take over the position of his father Ku, so he came to Tara.

According to the provisions of the covenant, everyone will not attack each other in the Tara area, so after the king found this stranger and asked him to tell his name and bloodline, Finn honestly told the king that he was the son of Ku, even though he was sitting there

No one can harm him even between the king's guard and the Fenian warriors.

The purpose of the meeting at that time was because a demon was going to attack Tara. It would spit fireballs at the royal city and plunge the entire royal city into a sea of ​​fire. However, no one could fight it because it could play beautiful music on its harp. Everyone

After listening to it, you will be hypnotized and forget everything.

When Finn learned about this, he said to the king: "If I kill this demon, can I be the leader of Finnian like my father?"

"Of course!" King In replied, and swore to it. Among those warriors, one was an old subordinate of Finn's father Ku. He had a magic spear with a spear tip in a leather box.

The rivets are made of Arabian gold. A characteristic of this spear is that when its blade is pressed against a person's forehead, it will fill the person with strength and high morale, making him invincible.

Fiacha gave the spear to Finn and taught him how to use it. So Finn took the spear with him on the wall of Tara and waited for the monster to appear. When night fell, the fog began to form around the mountain.

As people gathered on the plain, he saw a shadow moving towards him quickly and heard the notes of the magic harp.

So Finn put the spear on his forehead to drive away the spell, and the monster fled to Slieve Fuad. Finn pursued it, caught the monster, killed it, and cut off its head.

Brought Tara back.

Then King Commack brought Finn before the Fenian warriors, and made Finn their leader, and commanded them all to obey him, or else they would be banished. First Goll, son of Mona, swore an oath, and the others followed him.

An oath was then taken, and Finn became the leader of the Fenian warriors in Ireland, and ruled over them until his death.

With the emergence of Finn, Ireland's Fenian warriors entered a glorious era. The poet Osamu once praised him to St. Patrick like this:

What was dearest to Finn was the noise of battle, the joy of banquets, the barking of hounds echoing in the desolate glens, and the singing of mountain birds with joy. The pebbles scraped against the shore as they dragged their warships into the sea.

, the dawn sea breeze whistled through the spears, and the magical songs of the bards floated everywhere.

One day, Finn and his companions were returning from hunting with their hounds on their way to their home on Mount Alan. Suddenly a beautiful deer jumped into the middle of the road, and they began to chase it.

The fawn ran hard into the forest, and everyone except Finn and his hounds were thrown away. Finally, when Finn chased him to the edge of the canyon, the fawn stopped and lay on the ground. The two hounds did not take advantage of the opportunity.

To bite. The mother of these two hounds was born to Finn's mother's sister. She was transformed into a hound because of the magic of the fairy, because the fairy liked her husband.

In short, Finn ordered not to hurt the fawn, and the fawn and the hounds played away.

That night, Finn had a dream, and a very beautiful woman appeared in the dream. Then Finn woke up soon, and the girl in the dream was sitting beside his bed. She said to Finn, my name is Saba (

saba), the little deer you chased during the day, because I didn’t love a fairy wizard, so he turned me into a deer.

One of his slaves took pity on me and told me that as long as I could successfully reach your Alan mansion, you could help me break the spell and return to my original form, but I was afraid that your hounds would tear me to pieces or that I would be killed by your hands.

hunter wounded.

Finn immediately said to her, "Don't be afraid, girl. We Fenian warriors are free, and our visitors are also free. No one will force you to do anything here."

Later, Saba and Finn lived together and became his wife. Finn loved her very much, and neither fighting nor hunting could make him happy without her. Saba also loved him very much and made him happy. He spent the entire month

Staying with her for a whole month, their love was like that of those who live forever in a country without a home. But then Finn learned that the Northmen's warships had arrived on the coast of Dublin, so he summoned his warriors to fight.

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He said to Saba that because the Irish gave us gifts and begged us to protect them from invaders, it was a shameful act to take someone else's gift and not fulfill their promise." Finn recalled when they received great help,

What Gore, Mona's son, said: "A person survives for life, not for reputation."

Finn was gone for seven days, driving the Far Northmen off the coast of Ireland. But when he came back on the eighth day, when he walked into the house, he could see in the eyes of his men and their families that there was trouble. He also

Saba was not seen on the city wall to greet him in triumph. Finn asked them what happened in the past few days since he left, and his men replied: "Oh, when you, our respected father and leader, went on an expedition to severely attack the invaders.

At that time, Saba was looking forward to your return. One day we saw a man who looked very much like you approaching, and Brown and Skolo (the names of the two hunting dogs) were also following at your feet. At the same time, we seemed to hear

From the wind came the hunting cries of the Finnian warriors, and Saba hurriedly ran towards the gate. We couldn't stop her. She ran towards the phantom desperately. But when she ran to the door, she stopped.

And shouting in agony, your phantom hit her hard with a stick, and then she disappeared without a trace. Only a noise of deer croaking and dogs barking was heard from this side, and another sound from that side.

Then the hounds began to chase the deer, and when she ran to the door of the house again, the hounds stopped. We all grabbed our weapons and ran out to drive out the wizard, but when we got to the place, we couldn't see

I couldn't see anything, I could only hear the hurried footsteps and the barking of dogs, and I couldn't tell from which direction those sounds came. Then the sounds disappeared and everything became calm again. Oh, Finn,

There was nothing we could do and Saba just disappeared."

Finn walked into his room without saying a word. He didn't show up again for two days. Then he managed Finnian's affairs as usual. But for the next seven years after that day, he kept looking for Saba's whereabouts.

, from remote canyons to dark forests to caves in Ireland. He only took Brown and Scolo with him when searching. Finally, he gave up hope and went back to hunting as usual.

One day when he was hunting and came to Ben Bulben in Sligo, he heard the calm barking of the hounds suddenly turned into a roar, as if they were fighting with wild animals. He and his men ran over,

A naked long-haired boy was found standing under a big tree. The hounds were around the boy trying to catch him, but Brown and Scorow fought with the hounds to keep them away from the boy. The boy was tall and handsome.

Junyi, when the hounds besieged him, he looked calm and not afraid at all. The Finnian warriors fought off the hounds and took the boy home. Finn looked at him thoughtfully, sizing up the boy

The boy finally spoke and told a story. He didn’t know who his father was. His mother was a docile female deer. They lived together in a pleasant valley with luxuriant grass. This

The valley is surrounded by steep cliffs and deep ravines.

In the summer, he lived on fruits and other things, and in the winter he ate food stored in a cave. Sometimes a tall man in black came to them. When the man spoke to his mother, he was sometimes kind and sometimes furious.

, his mother was often scared away, and the man left angrily.

Finally one day, the man saw his mother talking for a long time, sometimes pleading, sometimes gentle, and sometimes angry. His mother ignored him all the time. She showed no other signs except fear and hatred. Finally, the man left

approached his mother, struck her hard with a brown hazel stick, and turned away. But this time she watched the man go, and looked sadly at her son. As he tried to follow,

Finding that he could not move his limbs, he shouted angrily and sadly and fell to the ground, unconscious.

When he woke up, he found himself on the side of Benbuban Mountain. He stayed there for a few days, looking for the hidden canyon, but he never found it again. Soon the hounds found him.

But no one knows about his mother, the doe, and the dark wizard. Finn named the boy Osamu, which means little deer. Later he became a powerful warrior, but

He is most famous for his poems and stories, so to this day, when mentioning all the stories about the Fenian warriors in Ireland, people will say: "Sing a bard's song, he is a Fenian."

Son of grace.”

Then one day, an extremely beautiful woman came to them riding a snow-white horse. She was wearing a queen's robe and a crown. Her dark gray silk cloak hung down, dragging on the ground, and there were some things on it.

Dotted with stars made of red and gold, the horse's hooves were nailed with silver shoes, and a feather crown on the horse's head swayed in the wind. After she got closer, she said to Finn: "I came here all the way, and finally found you."

Finn, son of Ku."

Finn asked: "Girl, which country and ethnicity are you from? What do you want from me?"

She replied: "My name is Fair-haired Niam, and I am the daughter of the King of the Kingdom of Youth. What brings me here is my love for your son Osamu." Then she turned to Osamu and said:

"O Prime Minister, are you willing to go with me to my father's land?" She said this in a tone that did not sound like a question, but as if she had already received a positive answer.

Osamu replied: "Yes, I do! I am willing to go to the end of the world with you."

Then Nanmu began to tell them the story about the other side of the ocean, the place where she summoned her lover to go. As she told it, a dreamlike silence enveloped everything: the horses did not bite their bits, the hounds did not bark, even the

The gentle wind in the forest also stopped blowing.

Everything she said sounded so sweet and wonderful. When the fairy song ended, the Fenian warriors saw E Xiang mounting the fairy horse and embracing Nanmu. Before they could react, Nanmu had already turned his horse's head and raised his head.

The horsewhip galloped towards the clearing in the forest and soon disappeared.

From that time on the Finnian warriors never saw Osamu son of Finn again, but people know what happened to him later and his journey in the fairyland, because he was a bard and his poems were always praised.
To be continued...