Connla (Conn Cétchathach)

Connla follows the fairy into the otherworld

Connla [ 'koNla ], also Conle , is in the Celtic mythology of Ireland a son of the king Conn Cétchathach . His brother Art is the father of the famous King Cormac mac Airt .

Connla is the main character of the story Echtrae Chonnlai from the historical cycle . He falls in love with a fairy and follows her into the Otherworld against the wishes of his father Conn .

Eduard Stucken processed the material into his romance Connla .

Connla must not be confused with the legendary figure of the same name from the Ulster cycle, Connla , the son of Cú Chulainn and Aoifes .

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• List of Celtic myths and sagas

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition , Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
• Irish folk tales. Edited by Käte Müller-Lisowski. Diederichs, Leipzig 1923 ( snippet view on Google Books).

Web links

• Connla and the Fairy Maiden. In: Joseph Jacobs, Jennifer Chandler, John D. Batten: Irish Fairy Tales. Wordsworth Editions, 2001, pp. 9-12 ( book preview on Google Books).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Stucken: Romances and Elegies. Erich Reiss, Berlin 1911, pp. 52–64 (25 double stanzas, rhyme scheme aaba – ccbc; unfortunately the 39th stanza is missing in the book edition. Digitized in the Internet Archive ).