Irish geilt
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Konungs skuggsjá - 11
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[11] on the Irish marvels, tr. Laurence Marcellus Larson, The king’s mirror (Speculum regale-Konungs skuggsjá) (1917).
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There is still another matter, that about the men who are called ‘gels,’ which must seem wonderful. Men appear to become gels in this way: when hostile forces meet and are drawn up in two lines and both set up a terrifying battle-cry, it happens that timid and youthful men who have never been in the host before are sometimes seized with such fear and terror that they lose their wits and run away from the rest into the forest, where they seek food like beasts and shun the meeting of men like wild animals. It is also told that if these people live in the woods for twenty winters in this ways feathers will grow upon their bodies as on birds; these serve to protect them from frost and cold, but they have no large feathers to use in flight as birds have. But so great is their fleetness said to be that it is not possible for other men or even for greyhounds to come near them; for those men can dash up into a tree almost as swiftly as apes or squirrels.
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wild man;
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Ir. geilt
