Serglige Con Culainn

Serglige Con Chulainn ocus oenét emirs [' ʃergl ʴ iɣ ʴ e con Kulin ʴ Ogus ' oine ː d' ev ʴ ir ʴ e] ( " Cú Chulainn sickbed and the only jealousy emersed " ) 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. Century it has been handed down.

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Serglige Con Chulainn is about the love of the hero Cú Chulainn to the wife of the sea god Manannan, the beautiful Found. Because he Did that flies with her sister Lí Ban as a swan over the sea, injured by throwing a stone, she beats him with a riding crop until it falls down sick. When Cú Chulainn, lying on his bed, learns that she still love him, it heals it immediately from his illness. Fands sister Lí Ban asks him now to help her against her enemies, which he in the " level of delights " breaks up with his charioteer Loeg mac Riangabra. As a reward, he may for a month with Found, which had been rejected by Manannan, share the camp. After Cú Chulainn return from the Other World, he meets again with Found. At this meeting the two of Cú Chulainn 's wife Emer and fifty armed with knives servants are surprised that threaten to assassinate Found. That Cú Chulainn has to do without his beloved, will void him into madness. But Manannan solves the problems by giving a potion of forgetfulness all participants and Found brings back to his kingdom.

The in Celtic myths so important motives " adultery and jealousy " (medium irish étmar - jealous ), especially the opposite in Irish and Welsh attitude to it, are discussed in detail by Birkhan.