At 12:27 PM 2/22/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Could someone please tell me whether the Irish Ard ri, "High king", was
>used in Old or Middle Irish for the word "emperor"?
>
>My gratitude is offered in advance.
>
>-Dan Hunt
>
The "Aird Righ Eireann" was the chief king, something like an emperor but not quite, usually located at Emain Macha or Tara, I believe the first of which was Conn of the Hundred Battles...
A'm swynsei Math, Cyn bum diaered..."
I had been marked by kind, before I became immortal...
Taliesin, in the Hanes Taliesen
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"It is Mor Cylch, the maze of life,' Tegid told me. 'It is trodden in darkness with just enough light to see the next step or two ahead, but not more. At each turn the soul must decide whether to journey on or whether to go back the way it came.'
'What if the soul does not journey one? What if it chooses to go back the way it came?'
'Stagnation and death,' Tegid replied with mild vehemence. He seemed irritated that anyone would consider retreating."
from The Paradise War, by Stephen R. Lawhead
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