Art mac Cuinn
Art [ aRt ], with the nickname mac Cuinn ("son of Conn") or Óenfer ("the only one") is the name of a legendary figure from the Celtic mythology of Ireland . He is a son of King Conn Cétchathach .
mythology
The story Echtrae Chonnlai ("Connla's Adventure") reports that Arts' brother Connla follows a fairy out of love into the Otherworld . Because Art remains behind as the only son of Conn, he is nicknamed Óenfer . As the successor to his father, he has the reputation of a righteous king ( fír flathemon - "righteousness of the ruler"). Conn violates this righteousness when he marries the fairy Bé Chuma and banishes his son Art from the royal seat of Tara for a year .
In Cath Maige Mucrama ("The Battle of Mag Mucrama") Art fights against Lugaid mac Con on the side of Eogan, the son of Ailill Aulom , and falls with him. Before his death, he and Eogan's daughter fathered the future Hochkönig Cormac mac Airt .
See also
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 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 889.