Manuela
Franke and Bore Madziroy invited us to a story-telling session during
which they recounted Celtic fairy tales, which used to be recited by seanchai
(narrators), as Manuela and Bore explained on their project display board.
In the text below, Bore tells how the tale he had thought was an old Irish
story turned out to be a modern Welsh one created to make Beth Gellert
a tourist attraction! Oh well, at least it was somehow Celtic, and although
it is a very sad story, at least we greatly enjoyed Manuela and Bore's
presentation. Warning: You might cry while reading the "Beth Gellert"
tale.
We received
our orders on a Thursday afternoon. Our teacher Phil asked Us, Manu and
me, to go on an adventurous journey to find the last treasure of Siegen:
Irish fairy tales. We accepted this order because we did not know how
difficult and dangerous it would be.
After a few days we were told that we could find our answers at a place
called "PC Pool". So we went there knowing that this would be our last
chance to solve the problem. First we spoke to a "man" who called himself
"YAHOO!" because we heard that probably he could help us. And he gave
us the right direction so it seemed, but didn't tell us about the "page
not found" and "could not find server" traps. It really was a hard fight
to escape alive.
After this disaster we spoke to "Google" because he was the best in finding
mysterious things. So we went with him through the "internet jungle" with
Manu crying because we had forgotten her sun milk. After a march of several
days we finally found it: Celtic folklore and fairy tales!
After we had completed our search we could not believe it. They were not
Irish fairy tales but Welsh!! What could we do? It was too late to contact
"Google" again because we had to make our presentation that day. Although
we knew that we didn't bring the right one we sold our stories as Irish,
hoping that nobody would discover our fake. And it worked almost till
the end until a young woman interrupted and said that the tales were Welsh
fairy tales because she had been to the place the story was about.
We were so embarrassed and full of shame that we left the University to
live in the deep jungle of Adolf Reichwein for the rest of our life. For
a moment we had been the heroes of the day but just for a moment.....
Bore "Bobby" Madzirov & Manuela "Menü" Franke
Click here for the "Beth Gellert" tale
