Fingal Rónáin
Fingal Rónáin [ 'fʴinɣal' Roːnaːnʴ ] ("Rónán's killing of relatives"), also aided Máele Fothartaig meic Rónáin ("The murder of Máel Fothartaig mac Rónáin") is the title of a story from the Historical Cycle of Celtic Mythology of Ireland . In Lebor Laignech ( "The Book of Leinster") and in a manuscript dating from around 1500 it is handed down.
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When King Rónán mac Colmáin (also known as Rónán mac Áedo) of Leinster marries for the second time, his new young wife falls in love with her stepson, Máel Fothartaig mac Rónáin. However, he does not want to know anything about the forbidden relationship and rejects it. In order to avoid further stalking, he travels to Scotland for some time. Offended by her vanity, she slandered Máel Fothartaig at Rónán, claiming that he tried to seduce her. Rónan is so angry that he orders one of his warriors to kill his son, who has since returned, with the spear. However, the dying man can still tell his father the true story. A foster brother of the murdered man takes revenge on the queen's family by killing her father and several other relatives as well. Horrified by her act and the consequences, the queen takes her own life and Rónán dies of grief over the result of his rash.
Another fatal father-son conflict is portrayed in Aided Oenfir Aífe ("The Death of Aífe's Only Son"). The biblical story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife , the Greek sagas of Bellerophon and Queen Anteia , but especially of Hippolytos and his stepmother Phaidra, belong in a closer or broader sense to this topic. In the Germanic language area, see also Hildebrandslied .
See also
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .