King Mongán thinks he has got lucky when the poet Forgoll wanders into his ringfort, but when he dares to question one of Forgoll’s stories, he finds he has made a bitter enemy and only an old friend can save him… Based on Lebor na hUidre, 133, this short story is followed by a chat about Irish myth and legend, Irish archaeology, and the role of poets in medieval Irish society.

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Creepy Classics music written and performed by Ed Harrisson (C)

Books and sources:

Text from The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales, by John T. Koch with John Carney

A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes, by Jonathan Bardon

Stations of the Sun, by Ronald Hutton

J.Borsje, Understanding Celtic Religion

A lot of Wikipedia! And Favourite Irish Legends, by Yvonne Carroll, Fiona Waters, and Felicity Trotman.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ab084821eb1441f891685f47b48fb93d

https://dil.ie/42314 (on the tuigen)

Cosmic Viking on YouTube on Irish archaeology:

On spearheads: https://thethegns.blogspot.com/2012/02/spearheads.html

https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/the-brehon-laws/

ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER IN BREHON LAW Author(s): NEIL McLEOD Source: Irish Jurist, 1998, New Series, Vol. 33 (1998), pp. 351-391 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44027309

The Royal Residence of Rathmore of Moy-Linne. With Notes on Other Early Earthworks in Ulster (Continued) Author(s): R. G. Berry Source: Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Second Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Oct., 1898), pp. 9-19 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20563826

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