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

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

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

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 889.