Lí Ban

Lí Ban [ Lʼiː ban ] is the name of a legendary figure in the Celtic mythology of Ireland . She is the sister of the fairy Fand and the daughter of Aed Abrath of the Túatha Dé Danann . Like her sister, she is said to have been a sea ​​deity or fairy queen.

In the story Serglige Con Chulainn ocus oenét Emire ("Cú Chulainn's sick bed and Emer's only jealousy"), Cú Chulainn is punished by Fand with an illness because he had hunted her and Lí Ban in their swan forms. Li Ban calls on him through his charioteer Loeg mac Riangabra to help her atonement against the enemies of her husband Labraid Luath-lám-ar-chlaideb. In another version, Labraid is Lí Ban's father. After Cú Chulainn's victory, he is allowed to spend a month with Fand in the elven realm as a reward .

The name Lí Ban is derived from the proto-Indo-European * leiābánniā ("liquid droplet") or * leiābénnā ("woman made of liquid").

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingeborg Clarus: Celtic myths. Man and his otherworld. P. 167 ff.