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Fand , also Fann ([ faN ], "pearl of beauty, tear") is a legendary figure in the Celtic mythology of Ireland . She is considered the daughter of Aed Abrath of the Túatha Dé Danann and is a sea goddess , but also queen of the elves and is said to be the most beautiful of all goddesses. It is also associated with the Other World .
Another version names Tuirenn and Flidais as her parents , her sisters here are Bé Chuma and Be Theite .
mythology
In the story of Cú Chulainn's sick bed (see Serglige Con Chulainn ocus oenét Emire “Cú Chulainn's sick bed and Emer's only jealousy”) Fand is the wife of the sea god Manannan mac Lir and the mother of Niamh . Because he found, who flies as a bird over the sea with her sister Lí Ban , injured with a stone throw, she beats him with a riding crop until he lies there seriously ill. For a while, Fand was Cú Chulainn's lover. First Emer , Cú Chulainn's wife, forces her with threats and verses of mockery ( glám dícenn ) to let him return to her.
- [...] everything that glitters is pretty;
- everything that is new shines,
- everything that is missing is admirable, [...]
Manannan gives everyone a potion that makes them forget what they have experienced.
See also
- List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
- Celtic religion
- Celtic women
- Myths and legends from Ireland
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexikon der Keltischen Mythologie , Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 9783854928461 , p. 100.