{"id":198,"date":"2012-08-15T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregoryfrost.wordpress.com\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:40:20","slug":"crimson-spear","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=198","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1in &#038; Remscela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookviewcafe.com\/book\/tain\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1036 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Frost_TAIN200x300-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"T\u00e1in, by Gregory Frost\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Frost_TAIN200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Frost_TAIN200x300-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>One thing stands between the army of Maeve the Intoxicator and its goal: a small young warrior named Setanta. Maeve, with all her cunning, sees no problem in dispatching him.<\/p>\n<p>But Setanta is no normal defender. His father is a god, who has given him a monstrous power and a magical spear, and his skills were learned on a\u00a0magical isle of women warriors. Alone against all odds and all comers, he fights as strange a war as was ever undertaken &#8211; in the narrows of every stream the army must cross.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tain<\/em> and <em>Remscela<\/em>\u00a0are two books derived from the Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology, known also as the &#8220;T\u00e1in B\u00f3 Cuailnge.&#8221; The first comprises the story of a cattle raid upon Ulster Province perpetrated by the royal couple of Connacht, its neighbor, and\u00a0the single-handed\u00a0defense of the province by its semi-divine hero C\u00fa Chulainn. The second, compiled from pieces of tales of C\u00fa Chulainn and other heroes of Ulster, is the story of a hero in decline while his unforgiving\u00a0enemy Queen Maeve sides with the supernatural sisters, the Morrigu, to take him on again&#8230;and\u00a0this time for good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/TAIN-Gregory-Frost-ebook\/dp\/B01BCW4GS6\/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2VORUJ8I2Z310&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eXmIxDRy4gEsktCDVy4Oh815ibcLdF3OYPf6bh2x-za9vgOF4PuEmMFvhGkoNS4l64B0-HEZ_uuKim11WW9qcHVemNaIhWOcDgtqXLZJBck_j2SngwMxUgfHJzBrnj05S0Leh7MHRiQnyLSTo1PNXG6CuAokJq_b82P9_JyzsZB3L9451C_GaRhVRFuql6jnjGs46xu6cEjA80mlLZTIYbpp9Gxzhi6cpzGcF3kxIcs.Jb5EdC4jst4J-pOn-ipymzRFXKfc0-skFIHJuOBicow&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Gregory+Frost&amp;qid=1713111850&amp;sprefix=gregory+frost%2Caps%2C80&amp;sr=8-3\"><strong>T\u00e1in<\/strong><\/a> is currently \u00a0available in new ebook editions from <a href=\"https:\/\/bookviewcafe.com\/book\/tain\/\">Book View Caf\u00e9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/TAIN-Gregory-Frost-ebook\/dp\/B01BCW4GS6\/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2VORUJ8I2Z310&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eXmIxDRy4gEsktCDVy4Oh815ibcLdF3OYPf6bh2x-za9vgOF4PuEmMFvhGkoNS4l64B0-HEZ_uuKim11WW9qcHVemNaIhWOcDgtqXLZJBck_j2SngwMxUgfHJzBrnj05S0Leh7MHRiQnyLSTo1PNXG6CuAokJq_b82P9_JyzsZB3L9451C_GaRhVRFuql6jnjGs46xu6cEjA80mlLZTIYbpp9Gxzhi6cpzGcF3kxIcs.Jb5EdC4jst4J-pOn-ipymzRFXKfc0-skFIHJuOBicow&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Gregory+Frost&amp;qid=1713111850&amp;sprefix=gregory+frost%2Caps%2C80&amp;sr=8-3\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing stands between the army of Maeve the Intoxicator and its goal: a small young warrior named Setanta. Maeve, with all her cunning, sees no problem in dispatching him. But Setanta is no normal defender. His father is a god, who has given him a monstrous power and a\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?page_id=198\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PcmYKr-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions\/1057"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}