History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c9.s1.25

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⁴ *Táin Bó Cúalnge*, ed. E. Windisch, pp. 456-7, v. 8. Although before and during his protracted duel with Cuchullain Ferdiad blusters and threatens, these are the conventional boasts of the warrior, and he recognizes his fate at the last (pp. 526-9). The whole of the *Táin*, from the words of Fedelm the prophetess (pp. 26-39), to the death of the wonderful bull, which had been the bone of contention between the opposing parties, is permeated with epic fatalism. Even in the last sentence of the story we read: “So war seine Geschichte und seine Schicksal” (*Deired*) (pp. 908-9).