Timeline for Who was the swift woman from from Irish Mythology described as having backward knees?
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 13:03 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | For what it's worth, horses (dogs, etc.) don't actually have "backward knees". They have short thighs and very long feet, making their heels look like backward knees. | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 10:56 | comment | added | Charlie Tizzard Ó Kevlahan | Didn't the Badb Catha have backwards knees (along with other grotesque features) in Togail Bruidne Dá Derga? | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 16:19 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | Note the association with horses in the Wiki piece you link. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 14:48 | comment | added | DukeZhou | @BrianDonovan Good call re: Macha. The the Kinsella is my favorite translation, but I'm not entirely sure if the description of the reverse legs derives from the Táin or the broader Ulster cycle. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | This detail might possibly occur in some tellings of the story of Macha's foot-race, reckoned among the remscela of the Táin in that it explains the curse by which the Ulstermen suffer disabling pangs as of childbirth in their hour of most need. I don't recall it, however, from Kinsella's version (pp. 6–8), for which the source text for this remscel is that edited by Windisch and published in 1884. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 8:41 | history | edited | yannis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2017 at 23:27 | history | asked | DukeZhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |