Four-poster bed

A four-poster bed is referenced in the Mishnah, which was redacted in the 3rd century CE. Four-poster beds are mentioned in numerous Irish sagas and were recorded in early Irish manuscripts. In the 12th century tale of Acallam na Senóradh, in the wooing of Credhe, Cael ua Nemhnainn cites in a poem "Four posts round every bed there are, of gold and silver laid together cunningly; in each post's head a crystal gem: they make heads not unpleasant [to behold]", when speaking of a fairy-mansion on the Paps of Anu, in County Kerry. The marriage bed of Henry VII, thought to date from 1486, is a four-poster bed. A 16th-century four-poster bed in Crathes Castle in Scotland was made for the original owners of the castle. ==See also==