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Seamus Heaney on Mad Sweeney the king cursed by a saint and condemned to live as a bird until his death. Seamus Heaney's latest book 'Sweeney Astray', a combination of verse and prose, is his ...
1Sweeney Astray is the story of Sweeney, a 7 th -century king of Ulster who, on hearing that Ronan Finn is marking out a church-site on his territory, assaults the cleric, throws his psalter into a nearby lake, and thus precipitates a series of curses that banish him to a life of madness in the trees 1.
16 de ago. de 2022 · Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney. Publication date 1983 Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English.
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Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney’s version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne – the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by the mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes ...
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's translation of the medieval Irish text Buile Suibhne, ‘The Madness of Suibhne,’ a tale in verse and prose that describes how Suibhne (Sweeney), an Ulster king, clashes with a local cleric, Rónán, and having been cursed by the cleric, goes mad during the battle of Magh Rath (modernised to Moira in Heaney's version) in the year 637.
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its ...
