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orgaine's brother lay dieing with her son's sword in his chest at Camlann. He cried for the mother to come take him home... Only she had been dead for many years and could not answer. Instead a tiny woman came to him in a dress of black with a silver sash. She was old, so very old. She brought Arthur onto her boat and took him to her home, to her well, where he remains.
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Branwen's Tragedy
For a time, hundreds of years ago before the British invasion of Ireland, the Irish invaded the coasts of Britain and stole people for slaves, including one very famous man St. Patrick. This story very well might have atleast a partion of it's origin in that time period so long ago when Britain was terrorized by that small Island that lay so near to them. Branwen, came from a large family. Her father had many brothers who had many sons and daughters of their own. She also had a beloved brother the god Bran. They doted on eachother in their home in Britain till the day Branwen was promised to a king of Ireland. No one was pleased with this match made to promote peace. Not Bran and not Branwen and most of all not one of their cousins who lived under the delusion that one day he would rule Britain as the only god. So this cousin insulted the visiting royalty by mistreating his horse. The irish king was angry but Bran and his father softened his anger replacing the shamed animal and loading Branwen with gold and jewels as compensation. So he took her with him to Ireland. He carried the White Raven away from her childhood home in a cage, a large ocean vessel. When they first arrived in the King's home, Branwen's ways seemed exotic and a little strange to the servants and lords and ladies in her husband's kingdom. No one liked her much many were jealous feeling the king should have selected a more local woman. Then, the story of how the king had been shamed in her home was told and was passed around... Branwen went from being disliked to hated. If she weren't so beautiful the king would have put her away and taken another wife. Instead he let his people enslave her and brutally abuse her. She was beaten by them and by her husband by day she was a slave. A princess in her own right a mistreated slave.... By night, she was her husband's whore to be used and discarded for his pleasure. The loneliness she must have felt cut off from everyone she loved and who loved her. All she could think of was her brother Bran, and that one day her husband would kill her. She needed to escape. All winter she suffered alone... In spring, a little bird, a pigeon, appeared with a broken wing in the castle and Branwen was lucky enough to find it. She trained the bird to speak. She trained it to tell her brother everything. Then when the little bird had healed she let it go sending it in the direction of her home to her brother. The talking bird did just what she hoped it would. It told Bran the whole miserable story. So to Ireland, Bran sailed to rescue his sister. He took fleets of ships. A battle ensued Branwen was saved. Bran... Was killed. He was severed in two pieces. His head removed from his body but both pieces were safely brought back to England with Branwen. On the journey back the head began to speak and said "Sister, have my head buried under the tower of London so that i may protect you always." So the head was buried at it's request and for Branwen, the pain of her abuse was finally over and she could mourn the deeper losses while counting on them to keep her safe from worse things happening to her. |  |
The Story of Aine of Knockaine Aine, was a faerie queen considered to be the sweetheart of the fae.
Nemaine/Macha
Branwen's Tragedy
The Swan Maiden
Medea's Tears |
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