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-the intro used to scare the pants off me. dunno why.
-this was what sparked my interest in irish mythology. i am still very much interested in it and my memories of this show have been a big, BIG inspiration for my works on the topic. i'd like to find the show so i can properly give credit.
-at the end of the first episode, the sea god and seabird lady sing a duet.
-the second episode mentioned someone called "medb". i don't know who she is exactly, but most evidence points to queen medb of connacht from the ulster cycle.
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update: i found drawings of queen medb ( the character mentioned in the second ep ) in my old sketchbooks! she’s got braided hair and a crown and wears some kind of tartan shawl. little me thought she was scottish, apparently. big oof.
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I have read this inquiry before, and it was answered. I think it was a tv show adapting Irish myths. Try scrolling down through older You Know That Show inquiries until you find it.
the only similar query i could find was about a movie, the secret of the kells specifically, which definitely isn’t it.
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I'm sorry for giving you poor information.
This is too new to be the one you're looking for, but Youtube has numerous episodes of Live Irish Myths and Legends if that would help you figure out the stories themselves.
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i feel like i remember something like this too! do you have any clue on the channels this could have aired on, and how often it aired?
@rookpaw no, sorry. my elementary-school music teacher showed us this from either a CD or some website like YT or something. but thanks for the interest!
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thinkin’ about this again, so BUMP!
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bump. also gotta update that i remember another thing about the second episode. apart from “medb”, someone with the epithet “red” was mentioned. reminds me of macha the red, who was sort of a catalyst for certain events in the táin bó cuailgne. i am becoming more convinced that this was about the TBC, but i looked at all the TBC-inspired works i could find and still… nothing.
also i should’ve mentioned this at the start, but this was a musical series. i watched it in music class and all the movies and stuff that the teacher would show us was musical.
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in a táin mood today. bump.
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bumping this the way that block of cheese bumped medb’s noggin
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update: i am becoming increasingly convinced that the “first episode” was just a mis-remembering of song of the sea, so now i’m more focused on finding the latter. thanks!
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As bad as Reddit can be, check out /r/Tip Of My Tongue there as well.
looked through those, all the queries i can find related to irish folklore/mythology-inspired media seem to yield the same answers ( cartoon saloon movies, faeries, darby o’gill, etc. ) and none of them are it
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i distinctly remember watching this show back in the early 2010s. it centered around celtic mythology and looked like something made by cartoon saloon ( song of the sea, wolfwalkers, etc. ). not sure if it was made by them though, because i looked at all their works ( or the ones i could find, at least ) and couldn't find a match.
so anyways, here's the details i remember:
THE INTRO: the show was animated, but the intro was live-action. it was a bird's-eye view of some city at night. then, it zoomed into this roundabout and in the middle of the roundabout there were these three grassy mound things. golden swirl patterns began appearing on the mounds and they kept growing until there were these giant glowing portal-looking things on the mounds. then, it zooms into the portals and it all goes white. then the light fades and the episode starts.
THE EPISODES: i remember watching two episodes. i'll put both of them down here, in the order i watched them.
FIRST EPISODE:
- this one was surprisingly similar to the song of the sea. maybe it was, and i just got it mixed up with this show because they were about the same topic. or maybe it wasn't. i dunno.
- one of the sea gods was involved. can't remember whether it was lir or his son manannan mac lir, but one or the other. whoever it was, he looked like a typical human and had tanned skin and was either blonde or ginger. though early on in the story, he transformed into this giant, melty, dark blue fish monster thing. at the end, he turns back thanks to this weird seabird lady.
-the seabird lady was this slim black woman in a gray hood. i can't remember what kind of bird she was exactly, but either a seagull or puffin or something like that. also she was magical and had fae/otherworldly ancestry.
SECOND EPISODE
-everything in this episode has a warm color scheme. a lot of oranges and yellows.
- the first scene after the intro is of some red-headed kid running through a forest in autumn. at one point, they reach a clearing, where a stag is standing on a rock. upon seeing the kid, the stag runs deeper into the forest.
-a scene that's been stuck in my head for a long time is of a field on a sunny day. the field has tall grass with small red, orange, and white flowers everywhere. in the field, there is a stage platform. the platform is shaped like a semicircle and made of wood. the back part of the stage has a worn-looking curtain and a backdrop made of some woven material that looks like a bird's nest. there's a bunch of people who look like typical medieval bards taking turns to perform on that stage. then, the redhead kid i mentioned earlier goes on stage carrying this giant lute ( or psaltery? something like that ) that's like the size of their whole body.
-unlike the first one, i can't remember how this ends.
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