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Aislinge Cormaic ‘Cormac’s dream vision’

  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
King Cormac mac Airt experiences a dream vision in which his wife Eithne Thóebfhota sleeps with the Ulsterman Eochu Gunnat and later returns to Cormac. The druids explains the dream to Cormac, saying that Eochu will be king of Tara for one year.(1)n. 1 31 note 109 Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977).
Manuscripts

This narrative is preserved as an interpolation in a longer text about Nia son of Lugna Fer Trí.

Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Cycle of Cormac mac AirtCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Cormac mac Airt
id. 43520
Cormac mac Airt
Cormac mac Airt
(time-frame ass. with Cormac mac Airt)
Legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Art son of Conn Cétchathach; contemporary of Finn mac Cumaill.

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Eithne Thóebfhota
Eithne Thóebfhota
wife of Cormac mac Airt; daughter of Cathaír Mór

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Eochu Gunnat
Eochu Gunnat mac Féicc
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Sources

Notes

31 note 109 Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977).

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[ed.] [tr.] Carney, James P. [ed. and tr.], “Nia son of Lugna Fer Trí”, Éigse 2 (1940): 187–197.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024