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  • For your sake deeds of anger shall be done in Emain; there is harm in your face, for it will bring banishment and death on the sons of kings.

    The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

  • DAoC changed TOA boo hiss and we changed and things will never again be what they were ... but those hours of cruising Emain at speed 5 and looking for the nightly hibzerg, time to pit our superiour skill and organization against their superior numbers, fight and release and wait for the port and do it again ... those were some of the best hours I've ever spent in gaming.

    ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play 2006

  • We'd do an Emain run and take out groups twice our size because we knew each other and trusted each other and we were damn good at what we did. well, they were; I kinda sucked We didn't "relate" or "emote" or whatever; we didn't discuss things more profound than the Red Sox, wins be upon them.

    ATITD Tests Psychological Origins of Play 2006

  • When they were there, they all came till they were at Emain

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • 'He covers his face; then the heroes of Emain seize him and throw him into a vessel of cold water.

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • 'If you had a strife for the hero's portion in Emain,' said he,

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • Folloman boasted that he would not go back to Emain for ever and ever, until he should take the head of Ailill with him, with the golden crown that was above it.

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • Ulster was in Sliab Fuait in turn, to protect any one who should come with poetry, or to fight against a man; so that it should be there that there should be some one to encounter him, that no one should go to Emain unperceived.

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • "Go forward round Emain only, and you shall have a reward for it."

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

  • 'Another time he was playing ball in the play-field east of Emain; he alone apart against the three fifties of boys; he used to defeat them in every game in this way always.

    Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

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