The Death of Muirchertach mac Erca: a Middle Irish tale of Samhain week. A woman on a grave-mound whose names are Sigh, Storm and Winter-Night, armies made of stones, the Cross over the king's eyes, and a house burned on the Tuesday after Samhain. The third tale in Samhain, the series.
A faithful retelling for readers about twelve and up, page by page. The darkest tale in the series.
Who does what — grouped by role, linked to the movements where they appear, and to one another.
The cast as a graph — every relationship in the tale, force-laid. Hover a node to light up its ties; click to open its card.
Drag/scroll/pinch to explore. Node size marks principals; colour marks role. Built straight from the relationship edges in the character cards.
The tale laid against Propp's 31 narrative functions — each beat linking to the movement that realises it.
Drag/scroll/pinch to explore; click a node to jump to its detail below.
The tale laid against Greimas's actantial model — the functional structure of wanting beneath the plot. Not the social web of who-knows-whom, but the single engine of desire: who wants what, who sends it, who aids and who blocks.
The tale by call-number: the Thompson Motif-Index, Christiansen's Migratory Legends, and the native Irish tale-genres.
One graph, all the layers. The nine movements run as a spine; characters, motifs, story-functions, type-scenes and the Object of desire hang from the moments they touch — and whatever cross-cuts the tale is pulled toward the centre.
Movements I–IX run as the fire spine. Hover a node to light its threads; click any node for detail. Toggle the layers above to isolate one kind of connection.