Celtic Literature and Civilisation class for Friday

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There is a pile of tartans and some rolled up posters on Camulus' desk, ready to be put up for the following day, which he shoves aside as he perches on the edge of the desk. "I know everyone's excited for the weekend, but you do have to hand in your assignments today. If you'll remember, the assignment was to create a story book from one of the tales we will be discussing. We'll begin discussing them on Monday, but today I just want you to read your story to the class, or even just particular pages or passages, and hand them in to be displayed." He gestures at a sign-up sheet on the wall. "I'm still accepting students for tutoring in Gaelic. I'll be in the classroom for most of tomorrow, so bring your parents or guardians by to visit."

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Han stands up with a cloth bound book, lettered in gold with figures of a king and four swans on the cover. He opens it. Each page is bounded in knotwork, and has simple Celtic style people.

"Once there was and once there was not. In the days of the Tuatha de Dannan, Lir was God of the Sea.

"His wife, Eva, had given him two children, a son and a daughter. They were great swimmers, with the gills and webbed feet of thier father, Lord Under the Waves.

"One day, the children came home from swimming and Lir came out to meet them. 'Your mother has given birth to twins. She has gone to rest in the Islands for a thousand years. You must raise and love your brother and sister.'

"The children kissed their mother at water's edge, for a thousand years are nothing to immortals, and watched her sail west to the sunset.

"As they grew, Lir's spirits sank more and more until the day he met Aoife. She was his wife's sister, and so like her that he married her not knowing of her magic.

"She fell sick, and when she rose from her bed, she was a changed woman. She took the children to bisit their grandmother, but upon seeing a lake suggested they go for a swim.

"As they played in the water, she put on her cloak of magic and cried 'For too long you have been in the way!' and, with that, turned them into swans."