Bóruma
Bóruma , also Bórama [ 'boːrava ] (“tribute”, “tax in cattle”) is called in medieval Irish sources a tribute that the province of Leinster had to pay to rulers of the Uí Néill family for a long time . The story with the same title Bóruma / Bórama is part of the historical cycle . It was probably made in 10/11. Century from a mixture of prose and verse and is handed down in two versions in Lebor Laignech ("The Book of Leinster") and in Leabhar Buidhe Lecain ("The Yellow Book of Lecan").
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In the 1st century, the Uí-Néill king Tuathal Techtmar collected a wergeld ( éraic , also honorary award, lóg n-enech ) from the kings of Leinster, called Bórama. He justified this with the guilt for the death of his two daughters. Because of the size of the atonement, there were repeated bloody arguments. A central figure in these generations of battles was King Brian Boru of Munster , called Brian Bóruma (after his place of birth, which was at the place where the tribute was handed over). He made himself the High King and contributed to the victory over the Uí Néill in the Battle of Clontarf , in which, however, he himself found death.
Legend has it that Saint Moling Luachra used a trick to end the tribute payments in the 7th century. It is a mixture of historiography and legend, and the information about the duration of the Bóruma is very different in different versions and also given imprecisely.
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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Moloney: North Munster studies. Thomond Archaeological Society, 1967, p. 364.