De Gabáil in t-Shída ('The Taking of the Hollow Hill')

In this episode we discuss the story De Gabáil in t-Shída, and discuss the topic of verbal manipulation in early Irish literature.

You can find the version read in this episode in the article 'De Gabáil in s-Shída' in the journal Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 19. Alternatively, you can find a translation by John Carey in the book The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland & Wales.