Die Göttin Morrigan - The Goddess Morrigan
The Morrigans Prophecy
...Then after the battle was won and the slaughter had been cleaned away,
the Morrígan, the daughter of Ernmas, proceeded to announce the battle and the great victory which
had occurred there to the royal heights of Ireland and to its síd-hosts, to its chief waters and to its rivermouths.
And that is the reason Badb still relates great deeds. ‘Have you any news?’ everyone asked her then. Peace to the sky, sky to the earth,
earth to the sky, strength in each;
a cup very full, full of honey,
honour enough, summer in winter;
spear supported by shield,
shields supported by forts,
forts fierce eager for battle,
fleece from sheep, woods full of stags,
forever destructions have departed,
mast of trees, a branch drooping down,
drooping from growth
wealth for a son, a son very learned
neck of bull in yoke, a bull from a song
knots in woods, wood for a fire
fire as wanted
palisades new and bright
salmon their victory, the Boyne their hostel
hostel with an excellence of size
new growth after spring
in autumn horses increase
the land held secure
land recounted with excellence of word
Be might to the eternal much excellent woods
peace to sky be this nine times eternal.”
She also prophesied the end of the world, foretelling every evil that would occur then,
and every disease and every vengeance; and she chanted the following poem:
‘I shall not see a world Which will be dear to me:
Summer without blossoms,
Cattle will be without milk,
Women without modesty,
Men without valour.
Conquests without a king
Woods without mast.
Sea without produce
False judgements of old men.
False precedents of lawyers,
Every man a betrayer.
Every son a reaver.
The son will go to the bed of his father,
The father will go to the bed of his son.
Each his brother's brother-in-law.
He will not seek any woman outside his house
An evil time, Son will deceive his father,
Daughter will deceive her mother.’
found at
University College Cork
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