Celtic Mythology: Difference between revisions

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* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]/[[Hollywood Nerd]]: Cú Chullain married Emer because she was the only one who could figure out [[Secret Test of Character|his cryptic answers to her questions.]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|While making up her own for]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|him]]'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to solve.]]

** He then has to explain the entire thing to his charioteer Loeg (and by extension, the audience).

{{quote| '''Loeg:''' Now, the words which thou and the maiden Emer spoke, what did you mean by them?~~<br />~~

{{quote|'''Loeg:''' Now, the words which thou and the maiden Emer spoke, what did you mean by them?

'''Cú Chulainn:''' Dost thou not know that I am wooing Emer? And it is for this reason that [[Multitasked Conversation|we disguised our words lest the girls should understand that I am wooing her,]] for if Forgall knew it, we should not meet with his consent.<br />

[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Cú Chulainn then repeated the conversation from the beginning]]. }}

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** Also, "Macha's Acorn Crop" is a poetic way to describe the piled-up heads after a battle.

** If ''The Wooing of Emer'' is to go by, the [[Monty Python]] crew was far from the first to refer to breasts as tracts of land.

{{quote| '''Cu Chulainn:''' When I said, "Fair is this plain, the plain of the noble yoke," it was not the plain of Bray that I praised then, but the shape of the maiden. For I beheld the yoke of her two breasts through the opening of her smock, and it is of that I said, "plain of the noble yoke," of the breasts of the maiden.}}

{{quote|'''Cu Chulainn:''' When I said, "Fair is this plain, the plain of the noble yoke," it was not the plain of Bray that I praised then, but the shape of the maiden. For I beheld the yoke of her two breasts through the opening of her smock, and it is of that I said, "plain of the noble yoke," of the breasts of the maiden.}}

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

* [[Wave Motion Sword]]: The Caladbolg, which shot rainbow-coloured energy beams that could destroy mountains.