Aided Cheltchair maic Uthechair

Aided Cheltchair maic Uthechair [ 'aðʴeð' çetxirʴ vikʴ 'uθexirʴ ] ("The death of Cheltchars, the son of Uthechars") is the name of a story from the Ulster cycle . It is preserved as a fragment in the Lebor Laignech ("The Book of Leinster") and in its entirety as a manuscript from the 16th century.

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Because the king Celtchar mac Uthechair had slain the rich host ( briuga [ 'bʴrʴiuɣa ]) Blaí Briugu in a dispute, he was atonement to redeem the province of Ulster from a visitation three times. The first of these tasks was the death of Conganchnes ("cornea"), a looter, which he succeeds with the help of a ruse. Furthermore, a rabid dog that attacks people and animals at night has to be killed, Celtchar manages that too.

At Conganchne's grave, Celtchar found three puppies a year later , one each to Mac Dathó from Leinster (see Scéla mucce Meic Dathó , “The story of Mac Dathó's pig”) and the blacksmith Culann (see Macgnímrada Con Culainn - “Cú Chulainn's boyhood deeds”) ), he keeps the third one to himself. However, since the latter becomes more and more malicious and therefore a danger as he gets older, he has to kill him as a third atonement. Celtchar stabs the dog with the spear, but a drop of the poisoned blood hits him and he eventually dies.

See also

• Myths and legends from Ireland
• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• Kuno Meyer (translator & ed.): Aided Cheltchair meic Uthechair , "The Death of Celtchar mac Uthechair" in: The Death Tales of the Ulster Heroes. Todd Lecture Series, Dublin 1906.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kuno Meyer: Aided Cheltchair meic Uthechair , pp. 24–31.