Mug Nuadat

Mug Nuadat mac Moga Uí Éber ("Mug, the slave / servant of Nuada , son of Moga Uí Ébers"), is mentioned in the Celtic mythology of Ireland as King of Munster in the 2nd century AD and is sometimes called Eógan Mór (the elder) ("Eugene the Great") called.

In the legend of the battle of Mag Léana ( Cath Maige Leana ), Mug Uí Éber, Mug Nuadat's father, waged victorious war against two other kings. This then allied themselves with Conn Cétchathach , who won two battles in County Offaly and killed Mug Uí Éber. Mug Nuadat fled to Spain, married the king's daughter and returned with an army nine years later. After some fighting, Ireland was divided between the two kings in 123 AD . The line between Galway Bay and Dublin was considered the border line . Conn received the lands north of this line ( Leth Cuinn , "Conn's half"), Mug Nuadat the southern part ( Leth Moga , "Mugs half"). Leth Moga consisted of the provinces of Munster, Osraighe and Leinster , Leth Cuinn from the provinces of Connacht , Ulster and Meath .

After fifteen years of peace, Mug Nuadat attacked Conn again, but was killed in the Battle of Conn Cétchathach in 195 AD; other versions report that Conn had him murdered in his sleep. Seathrún Céitinn (1569–1644) tells in his Foras feasa ar Éirinn ("History of Ireland") of other alliances of the kings involved, but ultimately also similar to the storyline described above.

Mug Nuadat was married to the Castilian princess Beare, with whom he had a son named Ailill Aulom and two daughters. Ailill was married to Conn's daughter, Sadhbh . His grandson and namesake Eógan Mór (the younger) founded the Eógannachta dynasty.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Collective works from Ireland

literature

• Celtic Culture: A-Celti (= John T. Koch [Ed.]: Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia . Volume 1 ). ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2006, ISBN 1-85109-440-7 , pp. 820 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 11.
• Michael Richter: Ireland in the Middle Ages: Culture and History (=  Scientific Paperbacks . Volume 16 ). LIT Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6437-5 , p. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Thomas Koch: Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia , p. 705.
2. ↑ Seathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating): The History of Ireland , Section XL - in: Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition. (accessed on April 18, 2012)
3. ↑ Michael Richter: Ireland in the Middle Ages , p. 46.