Echtrae Chonnlai

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Echtrae Chonnlai [ 'extre' xoNli ] ("Connla's Adventure") is the title of a story in the Historical Cycle of Irish Mythology . It is contained in Lebor Dromma Snechta ("The Book of Druim Snechta") and in Lebor na hUidre ("The Book of the Dark-Colored Cow").

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Connla is one of the sons of the Irish high king Conn Cétchathach . One day while hunting with his father in the hills of Uisnech , he sees a beautiful woman and immediately falls in love with her. Nobody else can see her because it is a fairy ( sídhe ) that only appears to him. The fairy asks him to move into the " plane of bliss " with her . To convince him, she praises her homeland:

Connla follows the fairy into the otherworld

Nóallsuide saidess Conle
iter marbu duthaini
co indnaidiu éco óathmair.
To-t-chuiretar bíi bithbí.
At-gérat do dóinib Tethrach
ar-dot-chíat cach díë
i n-dálaib tʼathairdai
iter du gnáthu inmaini.

A pitiful seat is what Conle sits on,
among short-lived mortals
in anticipation of terrible death.
The living, the forever living invite you.
They will call you to the people of Tethra
who see you every day
in the gathering of your fatherland
among your dear relatives.

Conn's druid Coran succeeds in drowning out the fairy with his loud chants and finally driving it away, but she gives Connla another apple to remember (the apple is traditionally a fruit from the Otherworld, see also Avalon ).

Connla refuses any other food and only eats more of this apple, which is still never less. But with it his longing for the fairy also grows. A month later she appears again in the Archommin hallway and this time he follows her despite all attempts to hold him back. Connla boards the fairy's glass ship with the words "I love my people more than anything, and yet I am filled with longing for this woman." And travels with her forever to the otherworld. Conn's other son, Art mac Cuinn , is the only one left and succeeds his father.

Eduard Stucken processed the material into his romance Connla .

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 .
  • Ingeborg Clarus : Celtic Myths. Man and his otherworld. Walter Verlag 1991, ppb edition Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-491-69109-5 .
  • Matthias Egeler: Avalon, 66 ° North. On early history and the reception of a myth (= supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. 95). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-044734-7 .
  • Matthias Egeler: From the land of women and Celtic heroes. Irish stories from the islands of immortality: 'Bran's sea voyage', 'Connle's journey to the other world' and 'Cú Chulainn's sick camp' (= Praesens TextBibliothek. 11). Praesens, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7069-0875-7 .
  • Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
  • Wolfgang Meid : The Celts (= Reclams Universal Library . 17053). Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017053-3 .
  • Kim McCone: Echtrae Chonnlai and the Beginnings of Vernacular Narrative Writing in Ireland: A Critical Edition with Introduction, Notes, Bibliography and Vocabulary. (= Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts. 1). Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth 2000, ISBN 0-901519-78-2 . (Standard edition.)

Web links

  • Eduard Stucken: Connla. In: Romances and Elegies. Erich Reiss, Berlin 1911, pp. 52-64 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ; the 39th or 40th stanza is missing).
  • The Irish fairy tale of Connla, the prince with golden hair. (Picked from the collection of old Celtic heroic sagas by PW Joyce . ) In: Richard A. Bermann : Ireland. Hyperion, Berlin 1914, pp. 218-223 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).
  • Connla of the Golden Hair and the Fairy Maiden. In: Old Celtic Romances. Translated from the Gaelic by PW Joyce , 1879 ( digitized version of the edition of the Educational Company of Ireland, Dublin; Longmans, Green & Co., London 1920, pp. 106–111, in the Internet Archive).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 844.
  2. ↑ a b Ingeborg Clarus: Celtic myths. Man and his otherworld. P. 96 ff.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Meid: The Celts. P. 193 f.
  4. ↑ 25 double stanzas of 2 × 4 four-part lines, rhyme scheme aaba – ccbc; Unfortunately the 39th or 40th stanza is missing in the book edition.