{"id":572,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/proverbs-and-riddles\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:18:24","slug":"proverbs-and-riddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/proverbs-and-riddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs and Riddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Proverbs and Riddles<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-572-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/proverbs-and-riddles.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/proverbs-and-riddles.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/proverbs-and-riddles.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/proverbs-and-riddles.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Proverbs and Riddles.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 781504.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> lore.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Esther Warkov.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 06\/03\/1978.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> interview.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Is minic fear fada ag ceannach fata\u00ed \u00f3 fhearr gearr. (&#8216;Tis many a tall man who bought potatoes from a short man.)<\/li>\n<li>N\u00ed hiad na fir mh\u00f3ra a bhaineanns an f\u00f3mhar ar fad. (The biggest men don&#8217;t cut the whole harvest.)<\/li>\n<li>Tuig an fear l\u00e9inn leathfhocal. (A learned man understands half a word.)<\/li>\n<li>Fear dubh, fear b\u00e1n, fear mac\u00e1nta, fear sl\u00e1n. (Dark-haired or fair, a mannerly man, a sound man.)<\/li>\n<li>Is minic a bheir cearc dhubh ubh bh\u00e1n. (&#8216;Tis many the black hen that laid a white egg.)<\/li>\n<li>Tuigeann Tadhg Taidhg\u00edn. (Tadhg understands Little Tadhg; like-minded people understand each other.)<\/li>\n<li>Chomh foll\u00e1in le brad\u00e1n. (As healthy as a salmon.)<\/li>\n<li>Chomh g\u00e9ar le s\u00fail mn\u00e1 \u00f3ige ar aonach. (As sharp as the eye of a young woman at a fair.)<\/li>\n<li>Chomh leathan le cailleach agus chomh dubh (d\u00far?) le seanbhean.<\/li>\n<li>A man&#8217;s picture is hanging on the wall in a frame. A person comes in and asks who is the man in the picture. &#8216;Brothers and sisters I have none; that man&#8217;s father is my father&#8217;s son.&#8217; Answer: The picture is of the person himself.<\/li>\n<li>Twins were born in March, on the first of April. One died young, and the other lived to marry his mother. Answer: March is the name of a little village in Wales, where the twins were born on 1st April. The one who survived became a priest, and performed the ceremony for his widowed mother when she married again.<\/li>\n<li>Ten men come into a hotel looking for a place to spend the night. There&#8217;s only nine beds available. The butler is told to put one man in each bed, and have no two in the one bed. How did he do it? Answer: He put the second man in the first bed, the third man in the second bed, the fourth man in the third bed, the fifth in the fourth, the sixth in the fifth bed, the seventh in the sixth bed, the eighth in the seventh bed, the ninth in the eighth bed, and the first fellow in the ninth bed<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>A man comes to a house, looking for a horse. He&#8217;s told that he can only have a horse that was never born. Answer: The mare died as the foal was being born. As a hint to the solution of this riddle, Joe mentions the line in &#8216;Captain Wedderburn&#8217;s Courtship&#8217; that refers to the &#8216;priest unborn&#8217; &#8211; Meetcheldase (Melchisidec).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. The problem here, of course, is that the tenth man remains unaccounted for. Perhaps the point of this riddle is simply to befuddle the target!<\/p>\n<p>At the end of this segment, Joe sings a stanza from \u00d3r\u00f3, a bhuachaill\u00edn, seol do bh\u00f3, which can be heard in its entirety here.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one, given in 2010 by P\u00e1draig \u00d3 Coirb\u00edn, a native of Carna:<\/p>\n<p>Dh\u00e1 mbeadh uisce agam, d&#8217;\u00f3lfainn f\u00edon; ach faoi nach bhfuil uisce agam, \u00f3lfaidh m\u00e9 uisce. (<i class=\"treaslitri\u00fa\">If I had water, I&#8217;d drink wine; but since I don&#8217;t have water, I&#8217;ll drink water<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Answer: The speaker of the riddle is a ship&#8217;s captain. If the tide were favourable, he&#8217;d bring his ship in to shore and head for the pub. But since the tide is out, he&#8217;ll have to be content with drinking the water he has on board.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seanchas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}