An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Cormac mac Airt

Cormac mac Airt

The wise king of Tara.

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A stranger gave him a silver branch with three golden apples whose music put the wounded and the sick to sleep, and a cup that broke at three lies and was made whole by three truths. The stranger was Manannán. The Instructions of Cormac, a book of wisdom, are put in his mouth.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne Promised to the ageing Fionn, Gráinne puts the feast to sleep and lays a geis on Diarmuid to take her away. Fionn hunts them for sixteen years.
  • 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

Sources

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

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