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unusual facts about The Tain



Fauna of Mirrors

The Tain, a novella by China Mieville contained in the 2005 collection Looking for Jake, portrays a post-apocolyptic London in the aftermath of the events predicted in the "Fauna of Mirrors."


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Fergus mac Róich

The story is told that, in the 6th century, the poet Senchán Torpéist gathered the poets of Ireland together to see if any of them knew the story of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, but they all only knew parts of it.