Tadg mac Nuadat
Tadg mac Nuadat ("Tadg, the son of Nuada") is the name of a legendary figure from the Finn cycle of the Celtic mythology of Ireland .
mythology
Tadg is either the son of Núadu Argatlám , king of the Túatha Dé Danann , or that of the Irish high king Nuada Necht. He refuses to marry his daughter Muireann Muncháem because, according to a prophecy from his grandson, disaster threatens him. However, some heroes court Muireann, including Cumhall mac Basna , a leader of the Fianna . When he is turned away, he kidnaps the girl. Tadg calls on King Conn Cétchathach for help and the decisive battle takes place at Castleknock ( County Dublin ). In the battle, Cumhall falls from the hands of Goll mac Morna , but Muireann is already pregnant. When Tadg wants to kill her because of this, Conn brings her to safety. Muireann gives birth to a boy whom she calls Demne ( damne , "deer calf"), who later becomes Fionn mac Cumhaill . Goll takes over the management of Fianna from Cumhall, but the adult Fionn snatches her away from him and demands satisfaction from Tadg for the death of his father in a duel. But Tadg offers him his seat on the hill of Almu and Fionn accepts this penance.
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 .
- 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 ).