Blaí Briugu

Blaí Briugu ("Blai the host") is the name of a legendary figure from the Celtic mythology of Ireland . Blaise is as briuga (Großbauer and host) owner (a festival hall for banquets bruiden ). In the saga Scéla mucce Meic Dathó (“The story of Mac Dathó's pig”) it is reported that there were six such brothers throughout Ireland , whose owners were the briuga Da Derga , Forgall Manach , Mac Dathó , Mac Da-Reo, Da- Choca and Blaí Briugu were.

Like almost all heroic characters in Irish mythology, Blaí also has a geis (taboo, obligation). His geis obliges him to sleep with every woman who stays with him without a male companion. One day when Brig Bretach, the wife of Celtchar mac Uthechair, is his guest, he sleeps her. The angry Celtchar kills him therefore - the atonement that he gets for this murder and his subsequent death describes the story Aided Cheltchair maic Uthechair ("The death of Cheltchars, son of Uthechars").

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 .
• Kuno Meyer (transl.): Aided Cheltchair meic Uthechair , "The Death of Celtchar mac Uthechair" in: The Death Tales of the Ulster Heroes. Todd Lecture Series, Dublin 1906.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 1015.
2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 827 f.
3. ↑ Kuno Meyer: Aided Cheltchair meic Uthechair , pp. 24–31.