Suibne
Suibne mac Colmáin [ 'suvʴnʴe mak' kolmaːnʴ ], also Suibhne Geilt or Suibhne Gelt ("Suibne the Crazy"), is the name of a mythical king of Dál nAraide (in Ulster in the northeast of Ireland). He is the main character of the story Buile Suibne (" Suibne's madness") in the historical cycle of the Celtic mythology of Ireland .
mythology
Because Suibne, out of anger at the bell ringing, kills a monk in the monastery of Saint Rónán with a spear and injures the saint, he is cursed by him. In the Cath Maige Rátha ("The Battle of Mag Ráth" in 637) he then loses his mind and flees into the woods. But soon his feet no longer touch the ground and he flies from tree top to tree top. During the short breaks he sings poems that Birkhan counts among the most beautiful examples of Irish natural poetry. After years of trying to find peace in a monastery, he is killed by a jealous shepherd.
Suibne mac Colmáin [ 'suvʴnʴe mak' kolmaːnʴ ] was a king of Uisnech in the province of Mide from 587 to 600 . The religious scholar Bernhard Maier equates him with the aforementioned Suibne and therefore doubts its historical existence.
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 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .