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Furor Heroicus

Furor Heroicus Perhaps the most primitive form in which the fighting warrior is seen to function in early literature is that described in the metamorphoses of the Ulster warrior Cu Chulainn in the Tain: Then he became distorted. You would have thought that each hair had been hammered into his head with the manner in which it rose up. You would have thought there was a spark of fire on each single hair. He closed one eye until it was no broader than the eye of a needle. He opened the other until it was as big as the mouth of a mead goblet. He bared his teeth to his ear. He opened his mouth to expose its inner surface until his gullet was visible. Bus hero's light sprang up from the crown of his head1. A more extended, rhetorical and fantastic account of this metamorphosis occurs ibid, lines 6442-6477: he is said to become horrible, many-shaped and unrecognisable. His body becomes wildly contorted within his skin and the contrastive eye movement becomes exaggerated. Besides the 'hero's light', this time from his forehead, a column of dark blood rises from his head to form a dark magical mist. In a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (ZcP) de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0084-5302
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10.1515/zcph.1982.39.1.235
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Abstract

Perhaps the most primitive form in which the fighting warrior is seen to function in early literature is that described in the metamorphoses of the Ulster warrior Cu Chulainn in the Tain: Then he became distorted. You would have thought that each hair had been hammered into his head with the manner in which it rose up. You would have thought there was a spark of fire on each single hair. He closed one eye until it was no broader than the eye of a needle. He opened the other until it was as big as the mouth of a mead goblet. He bared his teeth to his ear. He opened his mouth to expose its inner surface until his gullet was visible. Bus hero's light sprang up from the crown of his head1. A more extended, rhetorical and fantastic account of this metamorphosis occurs ibid, lines 6442-6477: he is said to become horrible, many-shaped and unrecognisable. His body becomes wildly contorted within his skin and the contrastive eye movement becomes exaggerated. Besides the 'hero's light', this time from his forehead, a column of dark blood rises from his head to form a dark magical mist. In a

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Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (ZcP) – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1982

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