An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Cairbre Lifechair

Cairbre Lifeachair

Cormac’s son, taken by the stranger with the silver branch.

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The second of the three boons Manannán claimed from Cormac: he took the boy a month after his sister Ailbhe, and that night no one in Tara ate or slept. Later tradition makes Cairbre king of Ireland in his turn. He fell at the battle of Gabhra, near Tara, where he and Oscar, Fionn’s grandson, met in single combat, and neither came out of that battle alive.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • Cormac and the Silver Branch A grey-haired stranger brings Cormac a silver branch whose music puts every sorrow to sleep. The price: his daughter, his son and his wife.

See also

  • Ailbhe Cormac’s daughter: the first price of the silver branch.
  • Eochaid Mugmedón King of Ireland, father of Niall and of the four sons of Mongfind.
  • Manannán mac Lir “Son of the sea”: lord of the Otherworld across the water.
  • Oscar Oisín’s son and Fionn’s grandson: the young champion who stood by Diarmuid.

Sources

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

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