Agandecca (Ossian)
Agandecca is the daughter of the Scandinavian king Starno von Lochlin and the sister of Swaran in the work Ossian of the Scottish poet James Macpherson . Its name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic aghaidh shneachda ("snow (white) face").
Starno wants to lure his enemy Fingal to Lochlin (Scandinavia) and therefore promises him a sham marriage to Agandecca. However, this falls in love with Fingal and warns him of the insidious ambush of her father.
- “Save yourself from the bushes of death! But think at the same time, King of the windy Morven ! to me! snatch away, oh you mountain son! Agandecca the angry father! " (Poems of Ossian)
Out of anger over this, Starno kills his daughter.
Agandecca is a fictional character from Macpherson and has no equivalent in the Celtic tradition.
Musical reception
With “Agandecca”, the German composer Paul Umlauft created a male choir with orchestra.
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 7.
- Helmut Birkhan: Post-ancient Celtic reception. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7069-0541-1 , p. 354.
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 7.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Macpherson, Michael Denis (trans.): The poems of Ossian, an ancient Celtic poet . P. 58.