An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Corann

Corann · Old Irish Corán

The druid of Conn of the Hundred Battles, who sang against a voice from the other world.

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When a woman no one else could see called Connla away on the hill of Uisneach, his father Conn called on Corann, the druid of many spells, and Corann sang against her voice until no one could hear it. It was not enough. As she went she threw Connla an apple, and a month later she came back for him and told the king that druidry was little loved, and that a Law was coming that would break its spells. Joyce and Jacobs call him Coran.

In the tales

  • The Adventure of Connla A woman only Connla can see calls him to a land without death, and throws him an apple that feeds him for a month and never grows smaller.

See also

  • Conn of the Hundred Battles King of Ireland, whose son Connla went away in a boat of crystal.
  • Connla The son of Conn of the Hundred Battles, called away by a woman only he could see.
  • Uisneach The Hill of Uisneach. The navel of Ireland, where the five fifths meet.

Sources

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

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