Buile Suibne
Buile Suibne [ 'bulʴe' huvʴnʴe ] (" Suibne 's madness") is the name of a story from the Historical Cycle of Irish Mythology . The legend probably dates from the 12th century and is handed down in three manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries.
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The plot is related in terms of time and content to the two stories Fled Dúin na nGéd ("The Feast of Dún na nGéd") and Cath Maige Rátha ("The Battle of Mag Ráth"). Suibne , the king of Dál nAraide in Ulster in the north-east of Ireland murdered a companion of the holy abbot Rónán. He was so angry about the ringing of the bells of the monastery church that he kills the monk with the spear and also injures the saint and is then cursed by him. In the battle of Mag Ráth, Suibne goes mad, runs away and roams the island's forests for years. He finally found refuge in a monastery, where the cook served him a soup every evening on behalf of the abbot. The jealous husband, a shepherd of the monastery, kills him in anger.
Suibne's flight through the woods is described with mythical exaggeration, he touches the ground with his feet less and less until he finally only lives in the treetops and sings poems there. Helmut Birkhan counts this poetry among the most beautiful examples of Irish natural poetry.
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 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 938.