Coirpre
Coirpre , also Cairpre or Cairbre mac Étaíne [ 'karʴbʴrʴe mak' eːdain ] is a legendary figure from the Celtic mythology of Ireland .
mythology
Coirpre is the son of Boand and Nechtan and the bard of Túatha Dé Danann . According to another version, he is the son of Ogma , a chief god of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The other main gods Lugh and Dagda were Ogma's half-brothers, so Coirpre is her nephew. Coirpres maternal grandfather is the healer Dian Cecht .
When he is a guest at King Bress , who rules the Túatha Dé Danann, but was a Fomore according to his descent , and the latter treats him badly, he writes an áer (magical curse, satire) through which the king claims his throne loses.
- No dish quickly in the bowl,
- No cow's milk from which a calf grows
- No place for a man in the dark of night
- No payment for the storytellers crowd:
- May that be the prosperity under Bress!
- May Bress not prosper!
This is said to have been the first curse uttered on Irish soil. Coirpre then fights with the Túatha Dé Danann in the second battle of Mag Tuired ( Cath Maige Tuired ) victoriously against the enemy Fomori.
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 .