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The Feast: A Dramatic Retelling of Ireland's Epic Tale (Ulster Cycle) Paperback – February 3, 2001

by Randy Lee Eickhoff (Author)

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Book 2 of 6: Ulster Cycle

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The Feast is a modern translation of Fled Bricrend, one of Ireland's most thrilling and humorous legends. Three men, each striving to be named Champion of Conchobor's realm, enter into a battle of wits and words in an effort to enjoy the privileges accorded to the national champion. As the heroic competition unfolds, visits to and from the otherworld threaten to unmask the true nature of the gathering. and at the center remains Bricriu, god of mischief and creator of the most delicious and devilish banquet the world has ever seen.

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256 pages
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English
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Forge Books
Publication date

February 3, 2001
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6.06 x 0.66 x 8.34 inches
ISBN-10

0312872992
ISBN-13

978-0312872991
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"A national epic of stature, the memorability, of The Iliad and The Odysssey."--Robert Fagles, author of the Modern Definative Translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey

"A seamless blend of scholarship and storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews

"A wonderous romp which will delight."--Irish American Magazine

About the Author

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

Product details

Publisher : Forge Books; 1st edition (February 3, 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 0312872992
ISBN-13 : 978-0312872991
Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
Dimensions : 6.06 x 0.66 x 8.34 inches

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PatrickMClancy

This is the most comic of the series.

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021

I bought it once. I had it taken in the breakroom. I'm buying it again. Don't take life so seriously. There's a Bricru/Loki behind every turn in life. Laugh along or be laughed at. I'll say it again, I liked it and I have no shame for this review.

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Noam

R-rated children's lit.

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2004

It is amazing that someone with such knowledge of a dead language can so poorly understand the culture that birthed it. The author's translations are generally very close to other translations (if one extracts his literary additions) but he has a tendancy to misinterpret sometimes obvious modivations, allusions, and sometimes statements, making many of the characters inconsistant with themselves, their positions, and their culture. He also has a tendancy to force his stereotype of barbarians on a people known for their obsession with personal hygiene and dislike for fart jokes (according to the Elizabethans). Thus every finger mentioned in the book is dirty and the characters have more problems with intestinal distress than pigs in a bean field. Then there's the women. Each time one walks by, someone leers at her a) heavy or b) cone-shaped breasts. The very presence of a member of the opposite sex makes every character pant and weak in the knees; like a Penthouse letter written by a 13 year-old. Though this is supposed to be a humorous tale, the author takes the buffonery to an extreme that, I think, would be offensive and insulting to those who originally created it. The author tries to keep the tale in its sensual original form, making it R-rated, but his writing style belongs in a poorly penned children's book. Most translations, no matter how bad, deserve a look see, but with this author's tendancy to add literary filler (not necessarily a bad thing) with distorted optics, it's difficult to tell what he wrote and what was originally there. Or at least it would be if he had a better feeling for ancient Irish culture and better writing skills.

His other translations are better.

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