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