Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin

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Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin [ ˈʃkʲeːla ˈkano vikʲ ˈɣaɾtnaːnʲ ] (“The story of Cano, Gartnan's son”) is the title of a story from the Historical Cycle of Celtic Mythology in Ireland . It dates from the early 11th but possibly even from the 9th century and is contained in Leabhar Buidhe Lecain ("The Yellow Book of Lecan").

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The legend takes place in the 6th century: Cano mac Gartnáin is threatened by his grandfather Aidan von Dalriada and therefore flees from Scotland to Ireland . He is accepted by the kings Diarmait mac Áedo Sláine and Bláthmac of Ulster . With the help of Diarmait's daughter, he barely escapes an attempted murder by his grandfather. So he fled to Connacht , where he fell in love with Créd, the daughter of King Guaire Aidne , who, however, was already the wife of the warrior Marcán. Créd, who is also in love with him, therefore mixes a sleeping pill in the drink for all guests at a banquet - except for herself and Cano. Cano only wants to become her lover after he has recaptured the throne of Scotland. When he leaves, he gives Créd a magical stone that is supposed to protect his life.

After Cano has managed to defeat his grandfather and become king, he finally wants to meet with Créd. Colcu, the son of Marcán, prevents this by an attack in which Cano is badly wounded. When Créd finds out about this, she thinks her lover is dead and smashes her head on a rock. The magical stone of life breaks and Cano dies shortly afterwards of his wounds.

The characters involved are equated with historical personalities who, however, did not all live at the same time.

Thurneysen compares this legend with Diarmuid and Gráinne as well as Tristan and Isolde .

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literature

Web link

Stories by Cano mac Gartnáin in University College Cork's CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition (translated into German by Kuno Meyer).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Thurneysen: An Irish parallel to the Tristan saga. In: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 43 (1924), pp. 385–402, newly published in: in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 16 (1926), pp. 280–2.