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Legends of the Celts

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To the reviewer who found fault with the use of the word "corn" in this book:

The word "corn" in Britain and Ireland can refer to wheat or oats. This is what Delaney means (he's Irish -- born in Tipperary). The "corn" you are thinking of would be called "maize" across the pond -- so Delaney's use of the word is not incorrect.

I loved this book.

::I enjoyed this book for a while. Until I read "Cormac's Cup of Gold". There I ran across the line "Out on the plains of his royal meath, the green of the early corn waved to the breeze's patterns across the fields." This line then made me angry. Why you might ask? Because from every history class I have ever had, corn is a New World crop and would not have been used or available to the Celts.

If this mistake was made in a single sentence, what does it say for the scholarship that went into preparing and writing this book?::

Another one to add to your collection if you're an Irish story-teller and story-sharer like myself.

Wonderfully written.

In Old English "corn" meant "grain",mainly wheat in England, and oats in Scotland [Hard to grow hay in cool,damp Ireland}.

I enjoyed this book for a while. Until I read "Cormac's Cup of Gold". There I ran across the line "Out on the plains of his royal meath, the green of the early corn waved to the breeze's patterns across the fields." This line then made me angry. Why you might ask? Because from every history class I have ever had, corn is a New World crop and would not have been used or available to the Celts.

If this mistake was made in a single sentence, what does it say for the scholarship that went into preparing and writing this book?