Aislings Meic Chon Glinne

Aislinge Meic Chon Glinne [ 'aʃlʴiŋʴe vikʴ xon' gʴlʴiNʴe ] ("The Dream of Mac Con Glinne") is the name of an Irish swan that was probably written in the 11th century by an anonymous author. It has come down to us in two manuscripts from the 12th century in different lengths.

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The wandering scholars Aniar Mac Con Glinne from Armagh gets on his journey through Ireland in the 8th century by the abbot of the monastery Cork in dispute. Because he is alleged to have mocked the church, he is sentenced to death. But he manages to avoid execution twice through his presence of mind until he can save himself to the court of the King of Munster . He frees him by a ruse from the demon of overeating, whereupon he is pardoned.

The story is an erratic parody of medieval Irish monastic life and the popular traditional narrative forms of aisling (vision in a dream, dream face) and immram ("rowing", seafaring, sea voyage to mythical islands). It has been called "the best major work of parody" in Irish literature.

See also

• Myths and legends from Ireland

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

• Original Irish text in CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts
• English translation in CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vivian Mercier: The Irish Comic Tradition. Souvenir Press, London 1991, ISBN 0285630180 .