Serglige Con Chulainn
Serglige Con Chulainn ocus oenét Emire [ 'ʃerglʴiɣʴe kon kuliNʴ ogus' oineːd' evʴirʴe ] (“Cú Chulainn's sickbed and Emer's only jealousy”) is the title of a story from the Ulster cycle of Irish mythology . In Lebor na hUidre ("The Book of the Dark-Colored Cow") and in another manuscript from the 15th / 16th centuries. It has been handed down to us in the 19th century.
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Serglige Con Chulainn is about the love of the hero Cu Chulainn the wife of the sea god Manannan , the beautiful Fand . Because he found, who flies with her sister Lí Ban as a swan over the sea, injured with a stone throw, she hits him with a riding crop until he falls down, terminally ill. When Cú Chulainn, who is lying on his bed, learns that she still loves him, this immediately cures him of his illness. Fand's sister Lí Ban now asks him to help her against her enemies, whereupon he sets off with his charioteer Loeg mac Riangabra into the " plane of bliss ". As a reward, he was allowed to share the camp with Fand, who had been cast out by Manannan, for a month. After Cú Chulainn's return from the Other World, he meets with Fand again. At this meeting the two are surprised by Cú Chulainn's wife Emer and fifty servants armed with knives who threaten to murder Fand. The fact that Cú Chulainn has to do without his lover drives him mad. But Manannan solves the problems by giving everyone involved a potion of oblivion and bringing Fand back into his realm.
The motifs “adultery and jealousy” ( étmar in Central Irish - jealous), which are so important in the Celtic myths , in particular the opposing attitude of Irish and Welsh people, are dealt with in detail by Birkhan .
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 .
- Dillon, Myles: Serglige Con Culainn. (= Mediæval and Modern Irish Series, Volume XIV), [Dublin]: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 1975 (first published 1953). (Standard edition.)
- Matthias Egeler: From the land of women and Celtic heroes. Irish tales from the islands of immortality: 'Bran's Sea Voyage', 'Connle's Voyage to the Other World' and 'Cú Chulainn's Sick Camp'. (= Praesens TextBibliothek 11), Vienna: Praesens 2016.
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Ingeborg Clarus : Celtic Myths. Man and his otherworld. Walter, Düsseldorf et al. 1991, ISBN 3-530-70014-2 , pp. 290 ff. (2nd edition. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-491-69109-5 ).