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[treadingdawn]

A war over a cow. We do hold bulls in high regard and if the ox can be a symbol of the new year then perhaps a cow is worth battling for.

Still, it is a cow. A war over a cow. What value do cows hold in your world?

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[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I think this cow was more a matter of balancing books.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Like money books? They used the cow for money?

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Well according to legend Donn Cuiliange and Finnbanhen were very fertile studs.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Who? Where are you getting this from, Cas?

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

The Tain Bo Cuilagne.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

English, please? I only took Spanish I.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it translates to, actually. The Cattle Raid of Cooley is another name for it.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Never heard of it. So two guys were fighting over a cow because he was considered money to them? That's stupid. Leave the cow alone. He's not food or money!

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Not two men, a husband and a wife.

PUT DOWN THE WEIRD BOOKS, CASPIAN.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Were they getting divorced or something? Because I've heard of people who get divorced and fight over the dog.

IT WAS A GIFT SOB.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

No, not even in the case of Medb keeping many consorts. Ailill already had a fertile bull himself and Medb wished to be equal to him by attaining her own bull.

PLAYBOY WOULD BE A BETTER GIFT, BTW.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Wait... I think I get it now.

He had a cow. She didn't. So she wanted a cow too because he had one, right?

HEY. EDEN HAND-TRANSLATED THAT.

[eiremagic]

In Irish culture, men and women are equal in standing as long as they're equal in wealth. Since Aillil had one cow more, and this great cow, he could rule the relationship and their kingdom.

PFFT. NEXT TIME GIVE HIM SOMETHING WITH LESS COWS AND MORE PICTURES XD

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Wow. Who would have though a cow was so important to them?

Did she ever get her cow?

MEAN

[eiremagic]

Yeah, but then when they bring him back to Connacht, he fights Aillil's stud bull and they both die.

ILU EDEN.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

And now nobody has a cow. This is why war gets nobody anywhere.

8D

[eiremagic]

At least for Medb. It got Cuchulainn a statue in the Dublin Post Office.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

But who's Cuchulainn and why does he get a statue?

[eiremagic]

He's the hero of Ulster! He held back Medb's army single handedly while the men of Ulster suffered their pangs.

. . . . NOOOOO.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

That's right!

......YEEEEESSSSS. JUST BECAUSE OF THAT CROWN.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

Okay, so they had a big war over one cow or a little war, like just an argument?

BLINGIN'.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

A big war. Mebd tried to invade Ulster for it.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

So what happens after the cows die? Eden told me that they both die.

[treadingdawn.livejournal.com]

Donn Cuillaigne fights Finnbbenrach and kills him, but he also mortally wounds himself. He wanders Ireland naming places before dying.

[tofuinthesky.livejournal.com]

A cow... wanders Ireland, naming places? A cow?