XPost: soc.culture.irish, ie.general   
   From: padraigb@MUNGEDiol.ie   
      
   "Sophistry Made Simple"  wrote:   
      
   >Popular oral culture has it that he dreamt often of being buried in the   
   >valley of Baoibaidh Baiscín -   
   >   
   Oral culture? Oral?   
      
   >"Chuala an tír   
   >Guth Mananán mac Lír   
   >Gur mhaith leis bheith socraithe   
   >Suas go dtí a mhagairle   
   >i mBíbí Bhaiscín"   
      
   Would he have to die first?   
      
   Something makes me think of this bit from the Wikipedia reference   
   cited earlier: "Manannán is known as Mannan beg mac y Leir/"little   
   Manannan son of the sea". " Little man, big ambitions.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)