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Sayers, William, “Extraordinary weapons, heroic ethics, and royal justice in early Irish literature”, Preternature 2:1 (2013): 1–18.

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Sayers (William)

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“Extraordinary weapons, heroic ethics, and royal justice in early Irish literature”

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Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 2:1 (2013)

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2

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1–18

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The synthesis of pagan and Christian cosmologies that informs medieval Irish letters incorporates prestigious and extraordinary weapons, and other such objects into an all-compassing Nature, in which they are preferentially associated with the themes of heroic ethics, legitimate and just royal rule, and the removal of errant rulers through a cosmic deployment of the “instruments of their fate.” Yet only rhetorical effects of literary depiction raise such weapons to a status approximating the preternatural.

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epic hero Ireland king threefold death weapons

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