Aided Chlainne Tuirenn
Aided Chlainne Tuirenn [ 'aðʴeð' xlaNʴe 'turʴeN ] ("The Death of Tuirenn's Children"), also Oidheadh Chlainne Tuireann , is the name of a story from the mythological cycle . In frühneuirischer language some manuscripts from the 18th century have survived it.
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The three brothers Brian , Iuchar and Iucharba, who come from the Túatha Dé Danann people , murder Lugh's father Cian . Lugh punishes them with the solution of eight almost impossible tasks. They are supposed to procure , among other things, the Hesperides apples , the medicinal pig skin from the property of the King of Greece, the poisoned lance of the King of Persia, and the fast-moving horses of the King of Sicily for Lugh.
They manage to solve all the tasks, but they are fatally injured while completing the last one. Despite her father Tuirenn's pleas , Lugh refuses to use the miraculous pigskin to save her and lets her die in revenge. Tuirenn then collapses over their corpses from pain over the loss of his sons.
See also
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
Web links
- Chapter Sons of Tuireann in the article Lugh of the English language Wikipedia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cross / Slover (ed.): The Fate of the Children of Tuirenn ( Memento of January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Ancient Irish Tales , Henry Holt & Co., 1936, pp. 49-81.