Additionally, throughout the poem there are specific mentions of the Catholic Church’s and or their God’s weakness in comparison with the freedom of the fair folk and Fenians which Oisin experienced in the Otherworld. An example of this is when Oisin is relating their revelries after a battle with the demon, he exclaims: We sang the loves and angers without sleep, And all the exultant labours of the strong. But now the lying clerics murder song with barren words and flatteries of the weak. (2. 193-198)
He is comparing the joyous, unrestrained portrayals of ecstasy, the honors of war, and the brute strength of his people in song with the way “lying clerics” of the Catholic Church now “murder song” with their prayer. He condemns their
He is comparing the joyous, unrestrained portrayals of ecstasy, the honors of war, and the brute strength of his people in song with the way “lying clerics” of the Catholic Church now “murder song” with their prayer. He condemns their