Caithréim Cellaig
Caithréim Cellaig [ 'kaθʴrʴeːm' kʴeLiɣʴ ] ("The Career of Cellach") is the name of a story from the Historical Cycle of Irish Mythology . The legend has been handed down in two versions, the older in a manuscript from the 15th century, the younger in Leabhar Buidhe Lecain (“The Yellow Book of Lecan”) and in another manuscript. The two versions are believed to have been made between 1200 and 1400.
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Around the middle of the 6th or 7th century, Cellach, son of King Eogan Bél of Connacht , was a monk in the Clonmacnoise monastery . In the fight against an army from Ulster , the king falls and Cellach secretly leaves the monastery to become his father's successor. Cursed by St. Ciarán , the abbot of Clonmacnoise, and fought hard by his opponent Guaire Aidne , he renounces the crown in favor of his younger brother Muiredach and goes back to the monastery.
There he leads such an exemplary life that he becomes his brother's best adviser and is ordained a bishop. Since this displeases his archenemy Guaire Aidne, he has him killed by four hired murderers. Muiredach avenges his brother's death on the perpetrators, but Guaire finally murders him too.
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literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .