3693.
Eson
(Lawrence E.): Merlin’s last cry: ritual burial and rebirth of the poet in Celtic and Norse tradition.
In
ZCP 55
(2006), pp. 181–200.
Discusses the technique of achieving poetical inspiration by undergoing a process of iniciation involving ritual burial or symbolic death, followed by rebirth as poet or prophet; refers in particular to the episode of the Finding of the Táin.
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I 3.3 Society: Rites, magic: Divination
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Author/Textual Sources:
Táin bó Cúailnge