A Circle of Stones: Journeys and Meditations for Modern Celts - Erynn Rowan Laurie 1995

The Sword of Nuadha

This is the Sword that cuts the boundary between Sea and Sky, the razor's edge of silver beach. The sword of light shines with brightness unbearable, protecting and defining the boundaries that we can only touch in the briefest of those moments that we spend in the neither-nor spaces between.

Claidheamh gheur, ghlan,

Gun smal, gun smur,

Gun sal, gun sur,

Gun mhur, gun mheirg.

(Scottish Gaelic source: Carmichael, Alexander, Carmina Gadelica, vol I, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1972. The first line originally read "a knife keen...")

A sword keen, true

Without stain, without dust,

Without smear, without flaw,

Without grime, without rust.

KLAH-iv gair, glahn,

guhn small, guhn smur,

guhn sahl, guhn sir,

guhn ver, guhn VAYR-ig

Moving Meditation for the Sword of Nuadha

Take fencing lessons

Study the concept of liminality and the importance of boundaries

Do devotionals to Nuadha

Examine your spiritual or emotional wounds and seek wholeness

Read myths of the wounded king

Affirmation for the Sword of Nuadha

Today I acknowledge the wounds I bear, yet I seek to heal those wounds.