Aislinge Cormaic

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Title Aislinge Cormaic
‘Cormac's dream vision’
Manuscripts

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

Description King Cormac mac Airt experiences a dream vision in which his wife Eithne Thóebfota sleeps with the Ulsterman Eochu Gunnat and later returns to Cormac. The druids explaim the dream to Cormac, saying that Eochu will be king of Tara for one year.[1]

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Description

Notes

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

Sources

Editions

Open book nae 02.png Carney, James (ed. and tr.), “Nia son of Lugna Fer Trí”, Éigse 2 (1940): 187—197.

Secondary sources

Open book nae 02.png Dagger, Claire, “Eithne — the sources”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 43 (1989): 84—124.
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