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Sep 23^rd, 2016 at 6:29am

After the whole affair of the cattle raid, Queen Maeve returns home to Connacht. There, she daily took a bath in a well on the shore of Lough Ri.
Furbaide was the son of Conchober, who had been killed by Maeve. It was his custom to set up a stake and place an apple on it, and practice slinging at it. One day, he spotted Maeve taking her bath, and not waiting to find a stone, launched a piece of cheese at her. It hit her in the head, killing her.

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Slinging in the Tain Bo Cuaigne Reply #1 - Sep 23^rd, 2016 at 7:05am well a good hard parmesan would do some damage.
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3410	Re: Slinging in the Tain Bo Cuaigne Reply #2 - Sep 23^rd, 2016 at 12:00pm Almost exactly two years ago, I gathered some references to slings in Old Irish literature http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1411174021
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jeffbonds Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 187 Alabama Gender:	Re: Slinging in the Tain Bo Cuaigne Reply #3 - Sep 23^rd, 2016 at 9:36pm thats a little funny in a dark sorta way i wouldn't have thought "hey lets hit her with cheese"
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Slinging in the Tain Bo Cuaigne Reply #4 - Sep 24^th, 2016 at 8:54am It's interesting as slings seem to have much higher status in ancient ireland than elsewhere in the world.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Slinging in the Tain Bo Cuaigne Reply #5 - Sep 24^th, 2016 at 8:10pm There was a type of cheese in Ireland, called tanach, that so dense and hard,supposedly it could be used as a weapon. Of course if that's the case, how the heck do you eat it?
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jeffbonds Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 187 Alabama Gender:	Re: Slinging in the Tain Bo Cuaigne Reply #6 - Sep 24^th, 2016 at 11:04pm cutting it into thinner slices i guess or breaking it into small bitts
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Reply #7 - Sep 25^th, 2016 at 6:56am

Curious Aardvark wrote on Sep 24^th, 2016 at 8:54am:

It's interesting as slings seem to have much higher status in ancient ireland than elsewhere in the world.

Because for some reason, the bow never seemed to present in ancient Ireland. The Anglo Normans seemed to introduce it. So, you needed other ways of taking out the enemy at a long distance. Slings and javelins.

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