Baile Binnbérlach mac Buain
Baile Binnbérlach mac Buain [ 'balʴe' bʴiNʴbʴeːrlax mak 'buːinʴ ] ("Baile with the beautiful voice, the son of Buan"), also Scél Baili Binnbérlaig ("The story of Baile with the beautiful voice"), is in the historical cycle of the Irish Mythology the name of a story that is believed to have originated in the 11th century. It has been preserved in three manuscripts from the 16th century.
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The title hero Baile from Ulster and his distant lover Ailinn from Leinster are not allowed to get together during their lifetime. When Baile mistakenly hears that Ailinn has died, he wanders south and dies there of grief. Ailinn, who has heard of Baile's death, moves north at the same time and dies there too. So they are also buried separately. A tree grows out of their trenches, a yew tree with him and an apple tree with her. The treetops take the form of the facial features of those buried beneath them. After seven years, the trees are felled and boards are made from their wood, on which the poets of the two provinces record their traditional narrative repertoire.
When the poets from Ulster and Leinster meet at a great poets' festival at the court of the Irish high king in Tara and present the tablets to the king, they unite and can no longer be separated from one another.
The Irish word baile [ 'balʴe ], also written buile [ ' bulʴe ], means vision, prophecy in ecstasy or madness, but is obviously to be understood here as a proper name.
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) revamped this theme in his poem Baile and Ailinn .
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 .