Tecosca Cormaic

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Tecosca Cormaic [ 'tʴegoska' kormikʴ ] ("The teachings of Cormac") is the name of a collection of doctrinal sayings in the Old Irish language , which is dated to the 8th - 9th centuries. The author is unknown.

The text has come down to us in Lebor Laignech ("The Book of Leinster"), in Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta ("The Book of Ballymote") and some more recent manuscripts. It is a dialogue between the Irish King Cormac mac Airt and his son Cairbre Lifechar , who, according to tradition, lived in the 3rd century. The content of the conversation is the rights and duties of a king and other doctrinal sayings (see also Audacht Morainn and Aithech fortha ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. 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 , p. 531.