Tochmarc Luaine acus aided Athirni

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Tochmarc Luaine acus aided Athirni ("The advertising of Luaines and the death of Athirni ") is the name of a story from Irish mythology , which was probably recorded in the late 12th to early 13th century, but passed down older myths.

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Tochmarc Luaine acus aided Athirni is the continuation of Longas mac nUislenn ("The Exile of the Sons of Uislius"). King Conchobar mac Nessa of Ulster falls into deep gloom after the suicide of Deirdre, whom he covets. His followers urge him to find a new wife and Leborcham , who once brought Deirdre and Naoise together, also promises to help. Sent a wife, she finds in Síd a prince of the ( "Elf Hill") Otherworld whose daughter, the beautiful Luaine. Conchobar is so impressed by Leborchams' enthusiastic description that he immediately decides to marry the girl. He enters the Síd , falls in love with Luaine, pays her father the bride price and travels back to his residence, Emain Macha , to prepare the wedding festivities.

Athirne (also Aithirne), the king's poet ( fili ), curious, decides to visit Luaine with his two sons, as they hope for rich gifts from the future queen. Blinded by their beauty, the three men storm the girl to hear them, otherwise they would perish from love afflictions. But Luaine cannot be softened by flattery, promises or threats. Athirne and his sons then sing curses ( glám dícenn ) about the girl, so that a black (“shame”), a red (“shame”) and a white (“insult”) bump grow on her cheeks. Luaine dies of a broken heart out of shame. When Conchobar finds out about this, he kills the three filid and burns their dwelling down, but can no longer bring Luaine back.

The sea god Manannan is mentioned as a secondary character, but in four different forms - three times as King of Man , once as Druid Manannan mac Alloit from the apple island Emain Ablach , also a synonym for Man.

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 .
  • Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology. Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sylvia & Paul F. Botheroyd: Lexicon of Celtic Mythology. P. 200. (for the text up to this point)
  2. ↑ Rudolf Thurneysen: The Irish hero and king sagas up to the seventeenth century. Halle 1921, p. 516 f; in: Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 681.