Goll mac Duilb

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Goll mac Duilb , the one-eyed man, is in the Celtic mythology of Ireland the king of Mag Mell , the "land of joy" (a cover word for the Celtic Otherworld ).

mythology

In the island Celtic tradition, one-eyed is always a sign of the uncanny, even evil (compare the one-eyed Fomori king Balor "with the evil eye").

In the legend of Laeghaire Mac Crimhthainn , Goll holds the wife of the elf Fíachna mac Rétach prisoner. Laeghaire can free them, but then remains in the realm of fairies himself . In this story, Goll is referred to as the god of the father and the god of the dead . In the legend, there is a similarity to the liberation of Queen Guinevere , the wife of King Arthur , by Lancelot from the land of no return Gorre (identified as Glastonbury Tor ).

More name bearers

  • Goll , the father of Cichol Gri-cenchos (the "footless" or "cephalopod"), a king of the Fomori.
  • Goll mac Carbada , the "son of the king of northern Germania", probably also a Fomore.

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 .
  • Rudolf Thurneysen : The Irish hero and king saga up to the seventeenth century. Hall 1921.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 560.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Thurneysen: The Irish hero and king saga up to the seventeenth century. Halle 1921, p. 486.