An Chraobh Airgid

Treasure

Cormac’s Cup of Truth

A cup that breaks at a lie.

Open it on the full site There every name opens, and a web shows who is kin to whom.

“Let three words of falsehood be spoken under it, and it will break into three: then let three true declarations be under it, and it unites again as it was before.” (Echtra Cormaic, tr. Stokes, 1891) It vanished when Cormac died.

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

Sources

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

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