Medievalists.net » Historical (King) Cycle http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Apple in Early Irish Narrative Tradition: A Thoroughly Christian Symbol? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/apple-early-irish-narrative-tradition-thoroughly-christian-symbol/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/apple-early-irish-narrative-tradition-thoroughly-christian-symbol/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:45:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50414 The tensions which existed between the indigenous pagan tradition and the nascent Christian Church in Ireland are evident in this tale. We are faced with ‘the opposition of two philosophies, the first being the native, the druidic, the doomed... The other embodies a prophecy of the coming of Christianity’.

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