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"I will incite the kings and the chiefs and the warriors and the young warriors," said Bricriu, "so that you will all kill one another, unless you come to drink at my feast. I will set son against father and incite them to kill each other. I will set daughter against mother. And if that is not enough, I will incite the two breasts of every Ulaid woman to beat against each other and become foul and putrid."

"In that case," said Fergus, "it would be better to go."

---excerpt from "The Feast of Bricriu," as found in Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe

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I find it amusing that Fergus doesn't agree until after that last threat.

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Elizabeth Culmer

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