Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

Literal Translation.
The figures refer to the lines of the Irish text.
1. Jason did that by means of Medea's magic, to wit,
bringing Vulcan's four oxen out of hell, and the other things,
ut ante dictum.
3. Now after the completion of all that work, Aeetes said
to Jason: „May it not be well (to her) that taught thee — Medea,
my own daughter! She it is that hath done all that", saith he.
6. After this the golden fleece was given to Jason and to
the champions of Greece.
8. So then Jason with his hosts began to leave the city
and to travel to their own heritage and territory. Medea began
to sue on her true covenants, which he had entered into 1
before the kings and heroes of Greece, and before the wor-
thies of the isles of the Tyrrhene sea, to love her 2 always
as 3 his one wife. Jason said to her that he would not bring
her to his country if she brought her children with her.
Thereafter Medea did a deed, sinful, fearful, brutal, to wit,
killing her sons for the love and dearness of the beautiful
youth and so that there might be no reason for leaving her
and not bringing her with him to his country.
17. Thereafter the soldiers bid farewell to the king, and
carried off the fleece, and went out of the city. Then they go
on board their vessel and rowed along the same way, unto
the estuary of the river Cius, past the districts of Troy, till
they reached the harbour of Greece. After this they brought
Lit. as he had bound.
2 Lit. and to love her.
3
lit, for.