Mugain
Mugain [ 'muɣinʼ ], also Mumain , with the surname Aitenchaithrech ("gorse pubic hair") is the name of a female legend from the Celtic mythology of Ireland , which is mentioned in the Ulster cycle . She is the wife of the Ulster King Conchobar mac Nessa , the daughter of the High King Eochaid Fedlech and the sister of Queen Medb of Connacht .
As after a victorious fight, from which in the prehistory of the Táin Bó Cuailnge ("The cattle robbery of Cooley "), namely the "youth deeds of Cú Chulainn" ( Macgnímrada Con Culainn ), the youthful hero Cú Chulainn comes back to the royal castle in uncontrolled frenzy and all Ulter fear being massacred by him, Mugain's husband finds a solution. He calls on the queen and all women to approach the raging man with bared shame and bare breasts. The young man then hides his face in his hands and can be overwhelmed and soothed with cold water.
- Emain's men immediately seized him and threw him into a barrel full of cold water. This barrel burst around him. The second barrel it was thrown into boiled over in fist-sized bubbles. He heated the third barrel in which he then came so that the heat and cold were even.
- Then he got out and Mugain, the queen, brought him a blue cloak with a silver clasp and a hooded tunic.
See also
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Wolfgang Meid : The Celts (= Reclams Universal Library 17053). Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017053-3 .
Web links
- Thomas Kinsella: The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cualinge . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-280373-5 , pp. 92 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 29, 2016]).