你熟悉这些名字：Cú Chulainn、Finn、the Children of Lir，但每次尝试读那些传说，总会被难念的家谱筑成的高墙挡住，还没等到第一柄剑出鞘便放弃了。按下播放键，那堵墙便消失了。每一章都是一个完整的故事，用场景、对话、脾气和利害关系来讲述——从 Lugh 在 Moytura 平原迎战 Balor，到 Deirdre 宁要爱情而舍弃国王，再到 Oisín 从 Land of Youth 骑马归来却发现三百年已逝。每个角色登场时都会被重新介绍，所以你可以从任何一则故事直接跟上，毫无隔阂。悲剧与喜剧比邻，战争与奇观相映，这段讲述让人看到这些故事对世代相传的爱尔兰人意味着什么，又为什么它们至今依然咬人。听到最后一章，这些神明与英雄会让你觉得如同旧识。选一个传说，让它带你沉浸其中。You know the names, Cú Chulainn, Finn, the Children of Lir, but every time you try to read the legends you hit a wall of unpronounceable genealogies and give up before the first sword is drawn.Press play and the wall is gone. Each chapter is one full tale told in scene, with dialogue, tempers and stakes, from Lugh facing Balor on the plain of Moytura to Deirdre choosing love over a king and Oisín riding home from the Land of Youth to find three hundred years gone. Every character is introduced again the moment they appear, so you can start with any story and follow it cold. Tragedy sits beside comedy, war beside wonder, and the telling shows what these tales meant to the Irish who kept them alive and why they still bite today.By the last chapter these gods and heroes will feel like people you have met. Choose a legend and let it start.