#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: Belt hook, strap tongues, iron ring, bracelet, razor, rider's spur and amulets from Schwarzenbach, Lower Austria, 250-15 BC #Celtic
Source: Celtic open-air museum Schwarzenbach

New YouTube video from Eolya:

Music with a Bard #bardmusic #vikings #celtic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Q-VfebGsw

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: Iron cermonial or cultic stick (uncertain) from the Late Iron Age pass site at Schwarzach, Salzburg; #Celtic
Source: Celtic Museum Hallein

#FindsFriday: Bronze belt chain from Oberrohrbach, Lower Austria, 3rd century BC
Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria
#Celtic

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Keys for simple bolt locks are an innovation of the late #IronAge. After all, protection of property plays an important role the more people settle together.` #Celtic
Source: MAMUZ Museum

#BookologyThursday: `Blackthorn is an important haven for wildlife, many birds will nest in its protective thorns, including especially the now ecologically threatened nightingale.` #Celtic
Source: https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/08/06/blackthorn-dark-mother-of-the-woods-crone-of-the-triple-goddess-witch-wood/

#BookologyThursday: ‘There are three things,’ says a Welsh triad, ‘Which are not often heard: the song of the birds of Rhiannon, a song of wisdom from the mouth of a Saxon, and an invitation to a feast from a miser’.
Source: Magical birds as a link between the Mabinogion and Other #Celtic Literature by Elaine Eichner
https://lasendadelbardo.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-leyenda-de-rhiannon.html

#BookologyThursday: `Birdsong is often associated with the Celtic #Otherworld. There’s a Celtic tradition of otherworldly birds, whose song is beautiful and who possess magic powers associated with healing and with sleep.
The birds of Rhiannon were one of the treasures owned by Manawydan and Pryderi when they were joint rulers of the Otherworld. They could wake the dead and lull the living to sleep.`
Source: Magical birds as a link between the Mabinogion and Other #Celtic Literature by Elaine Eichner
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#BookologyThursday: `Willows are really useful friends to insects and birds, their catkins being among the first to appear as early as February, offering early sustenenace to pollinators.` #Celtic
Source: Ali Isaac

#BookologyThursday: `When the survivors of the war in Ireland return to Britain, in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, they are serenaded as they rest and feast for seven years at Harlech by the three birds of #Rhiannon. All other songs are harsh compared to this singing. These birds have the magical property of sounding as clear as if they are very close, even though they are seen to be some way off over the sea.
While they are singing, the warriors in this #otherworldly space are not aware of how much time is passing, nor are they sad, in spite of the sorrows they have just lived through.`
Source: Magical birds as a link between the Mabinogion and Other #Celtic Literature by Elaine Eichner
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An ancient Celtic warrior likely received advanced medical care for his time, offering rare insight into early Iron Age healing practices and the privileges of elite status.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/04/ancient-celtic-warrior-received-advanced-medical-care-study-finds.html

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: The #Fynnodderee is a #Manx folkloric figure. `The `hairy one` of the #IsleOfMan loved human women – so much so that he was evicted from the #Otherworld for missing too many #Fairy dances while pursuing non-fairy maidens. He roamed about, neither of this world nor the other, unable to settle down or to cut his long shaggy hair.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#LegendaryWednesday: `#Aoibhell laid her love upon a young man of Munster called Dubhlaing uí Artigan, who'd been sent away by the king of Ireland before an important battle, but he'd have none of that and returned to join the king's son. When she couldn't dissuade him she cast an ancient Sidhe charm on him, to make him appear other than he was.
But the king's son saw through the deception and demanded to be taken to Aoibhell – she told them that himself and Dubhlaing would both die in the coming battle, but the prince said he'd bring enough men with him that it would be worth the price.
So she turned to Dubhlaing and said he'd have two full centuries of happy life with her if he but turned aside from the battle, but he said he'd rather have his good name. In anger she laughed and said, “Your prince will fall, and you yourself will fall, and your proud blood will be on the plain tomorrow.” And so it came to pass.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/aoibhell-fairy-queen-of-love

#WyrdWednesday: `After a day and a night of wild voyaging across storm-kissed seas, #Mael Duin and his companions came hard up on a dark island with bright bonefires ablaze on the cliffs. The sounds of merriment and rough drunken carousing echoed down to them and Mael Duin heard on man boast of trapping Ailill in a church and burning it down around his ears. Before they could cast a line to land however the storm picked up and grew violent, driving them far from the island where destiny awaited, and Mael Duin regretted deeply ignoring the words of the Druidess.` #Celtic
https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/114387154576294300
Source: emeraldisle.ie/the-voyage-of-mael-duin

#LegendaryWednesday: `There rose a dispute one time between two women of the Tuatha de Danaan, Aine and Aoife, daughters of Manannan, son of Lir, for Aoife had given her love to Lugaidh's Son, and Aine had given her love to a man of her own race, and each of them said her own man was a better hurler than the other. And it came from that dispute that there was a great hurling match settled between the Men of Dea and the Fianna of Ireland.
They were playing the match through the length of three days and three nights, but neither of them won a goal. And when the Tuatha de Danaan that were watching the game on each side of Leamhain saw it was so hard for their hurlers to win a goal against the Fianna, they thought it as well to go away again without playing out the game.` #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#WyrdWednesday: `#Mael Duin vowed vengeance on the curs who had done away with his father by blood, for blood is thicker than water as they say. He went from that place and pondered, for he had no notion where to begin his hunt. Taking counsel with an ancient Druidess named Nuca at Corcomroe, he learned that these men were pirates, and their cackling band could be found a short sail off the west coast of Ireland. But, she warned him, his geas (that is magical duty) was to bring with him only seventeen companions.` #Celtic
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/the-voyage-of-mael-duin

#FairyTaleTuesday #EarthDay #Celtic: Iain MacAnTsaoir reconstructed a #Gaelic Creation Myth. `Within the story, Donn and Danu are the first two gods and it is from them that creation stems. As the story goes:
“Long, long ago the great void produced a god and goddess, named Donn and Danu. When they looked at each other a sacred flame burned in their hearts. They locked into a loving embrace from which they could not be separated“. ...
https://hear-me.social/@NeuKelte/113086123373826339

#FairyTaleTuesday #EarthDay: `#Celtic mythology does not propose a single version or description of the creation as a whole, as other religions and mythologies do, but a few Celtic myths mention that heaven and earth was created by giants, considered by this peoples group to be the ancient original gods. According to another Celtic myth, the creation took place by the primordial, first god who, by means of a melody played by his breath, brought creation into existence.
The following passage is from a Celtic myth claiming that in the beginning nothing living existed—not even gods—but that the earth was comprised of land and sea: „Once upon a time, there was no time and that was when there also was no gods and no man walked the surface of the land. But there was the sea, and where the sea met the land, a mare was born, white and made of sea-foam. And her name was Eiocha“.`
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/celtic-myths-creation-0072

#FairyTaleTuesday #EarthDay: `There is another #Celtic myth that involves giants as the original gods who created the earth. It goes:
“The tale is related that in the first winter, an enormous powerful giant was created from “hoarfrost.”
Fire came and then melted the giant. The remnants of his body formed the various parts of our universe. The giant’s body formed the world. His blood flowed freely creating the seas and oceans.
The mountains were created from his bones. The forests and trees sprung from his hair and his skull became the sky.
At the core or heart of the earth within, the gods were thought to live on mountainous hills, and below in the valleys the Underworld boiled with secrets and was the home of the dead.”
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/celtic-creation-myth-0016475