Tochmarc Étaíne

Tochmarc Etaine [' toxmark ' e ː dain ʴ e] ( " The wooing of Étaín " ) is the title of a story from the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology. She is survived and in Lebor na hUidre ( " The Book of the dark-colored cow " ), as well as in a large number of different variations in detail in the Lebor Dromma Snechta ( "The Book of Druim Snechta ").

Content

Étaín in other versions is the daughter of the Dagda and the Boann, but the foster daughter of Bresal or the daughter of Ailill mac Máta. Oengus mac ind Oc promoting his foster father Midir to Étaín. It is then the second wife or lover Midir, son of the Dagda, the Bri Leith in Síd ( Slieve Callory, County Longford ) lives. Midir's first wife Fuamnach Étaín hates and pursues them with Fith -Fath ( druid spell ). Again and again she turned her rival, inter alia, into a seagull and a fly until it becomes an ethereal being at the end of which the wind carries it. She is swallowed by the wife of the warrior ETAR and after 1012 ( numerology ) years now reborn. As Étars daughter she eventually marries the king of Ulster, Eochaid Airem. In the tangled history with multiple versions, Eochaid 's brother Ailill Anguba verliebts in them, then Midir advertises again around her, she wins Eochaid from the fidchell game and flies away with her as a swan pair. With Etain daughter ESA, Eochaid mistaken for Étain itself holds and impregnates it testifies Mes Buachalla, which is later in their marriage with Etarscél mother of the famous king Conaire Mór.

In another version takes Midir's foster son Oengus Étain as a creature of the air to himself and builds her a glass house, where they can again relax with the scent of flowers. But Fuamnach it transforms again and as she flies over Ireland seven years there. Since Oengus sees through her ​​magic, he beheaded her with her foster father Bresal. The more action then is similar to the above narrated version.

Also, the harpist Abhcan to have been killed in the course of the story of Oengus.

Metric short line

In this narrative, some passages in verse are present, such as a work song of the elves Midir in the typical short -line song form, while they have to build a dam through a swamp:

Core i LAIm, tochre i LAIm airderc damrad, tráthaib IAR fun. fortrom áilges. ní fess cuich less cuich aimless de thochur tar Moin Lamraige.

Give by hand to hand, excellent workmen, in the hours after sunset. About Heavy is the imposition. No one knows whose benefits, Whose the disadvantage of the Aufwurf about Moin Lamraige.

The background of this insertion is that Midir has to fulfill some tasks, including the planting of a forest and the construction of a road through the swamp Moin Lámraige ( County Longford ) within a year. With the help of his elves him the solution succeeds. This structure is called the still existing Iron Age trackway Corlea, also Danes Road ( " Dane Street " ), his.