Fedelm Noíchride

Fedelm Noíchride [ 'fʼeðʼelm' noiçrʼiðʼe ] ("Fedelm Nine-Heart"), also Fedelm Noíchrothach ("Fedelm Neunmalschön"), is the name of a legendary figure from the Celtic mythology of Ireland .

In the Táin Bó Cuailnge ("The cattle robbery of Cooley ") Fedelm Noíchride is the daughter of the King of Ulster , Conchobar mac Nessa and the wife of Cairbre Nia-Fers , the king of Tara . She begins a love affair with the Ulter hero Cú Chulainn , although in a later corrected version of the text her servant is said to have been the lover. After Cairbres death at the hand of Cú Chulainn, Fedelm married Conall Cernach , who had killed her son Erc mac Cairbri Niad-Fer in revenge for Cú Chulainn's murder.

In the story Fled Bricrenn ("Bricrius Fest") Fedelm Noíchride is mentioned as the wife of the warrior Loegaire Buadach .

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Myths and legends from Ireland
• Celtic women

literature

• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 122.

Web links

• Patricia Monaghan: The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Infobase Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4381-1037-5 , p. 181. (books.google.at)
• Ann Dooley: Playing the Hero: Reading the Irish Saga Táin Bó Cúailnge. University of Toronto Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8020-3832-8 , p. 169. (books.google.at)