Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia married in Dublin on 9 September 2009 Flashcards
What type of poem is it
Epithalamium
Fate draws them together
They’ll revive a sign
A fantastical image
You both see the same star (…) that is the time for you to set out on your journey
The story of a full loaf( and a curse) or a half loaf (and a blessing)
Her son was familiar with this folktale and it has an important message about truth and optimism
She’ll equip him with what he needs
Gives them her blessing letting her son know he will always find love and support in family
With half a loaf and a your mother’s blessing
Be adventurous
Love will come to those who adventure and persevere
Leave behind the places that you know
You will rediscover the familiar when you read these stories to your own children
You will find it in the stories
Examples of folktales from the poem
Sleeping beauty
Enchanter’s daughter
Fantastical image
Their children will speak in Irish and Russian and will be told the stories in two languages
When the cat wakes up, he will speak in Irish and Russian
Xenya will have to trust in strangers living in a foreign country
How she trusted to strangers
Their love is forever
She lived happily ever after
