Conaire Mór

Conaire Mór [ 'konarʴe moːr ] ("Conaire the Great") is the name of an Irish high king of Tara (Temair). He is one of the main characters in some of the stories in the Ulster cycle of Celtic mythology .

mythology

Conaire Mór is the son of the enchanting Mes Buachalla , wife of the Irish king Etarscél . In one version of his conception, Etarscél himself is the father of Conaire Mórs; in another, Mes Buachalla was impregnated by an unknown bird in the form of a bird before she married. He is a direct descendant of Étaín through her daughter, also called Étaín, the wife of Cormac mac Airt , king of Ulsters , and whose daughter is Mes Buachalla.

He has the gessi (taboos) not to be allowed to hunt birds because of his mythical birth, never to spend the ninth night outside of Taras , not to spend the night in a house whose hearth lights out at night and into which one can see and to the house of one Redheads are not allowed to precede him by three reds.

In the saga Togail Bruidne Da Derga ("The Destruction of the Hall Da Dergas") he ultimately dies because he violates one of his gessi against the witch Cailb and also violates the commandment of fír flathemon ("the justice of the king") .

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 .

Web links

• James MacKillop: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860967-1 , pp. 409 f.
• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín: A new history of Ireland: Prehistoric and early Ireland. Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-922665-8 , pp. 483 f.
• Full text by Togail Bruidne Da Derga in English translation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p 878. (The geis the redhead is particularly strange, especially in Ireland!)