An Chraobh Airgid

Being of the sídhe

Caer Ibormeith

Caer Ibormeith

The girl Aengus saw in his sleep: a swan one year, a woman the next.

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Daughter of Ethal Anbuail of Síd Úamain in Connacht. For a year she came to Aengus in his sleep and played to him on a timpán. She is a bird one year and a woman the next: at Samhain Aengus called her from Loch Bél Dracon, and they flew as two swans to Brú na Bóinne. Lady Gregory calls her Caer Ormaith.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Dream of Aengus For a year a girl plays to Aengus in his sleep. When he finds her, she is one of thrice fifty girls on silver chains, and every other year she is a swan.

See also

  • Ailill mac Máta King of Connacht, Medb’s husband.
  • Brú na Bóinne Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. The mansion of the Boyne: a tomb older than the pyramids, and a house of the gods.
  • Medb Queen of Connacht, who went to war for the Brown Bull of Cúailnge.
  • Samhain The start of winter. The night the mounds stand open.

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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