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The flaming passions which envelop Cuchulain’s burning heart are quenched by the waters of the sea. His soul ‘begins to tremble into stillness,/To die into the labyrinth of itself’.1 Robartes describes the experience in ‘The Phases of the Moon’.
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Skene, R. (1974). The Fifteenth Night. In: The Cuchulain Plays of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02220-5_9
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