An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Diurán

Diurán

Diurán the Rhymer, who cut a piece from the silver net and laid it on the altar of Armagh.

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

One of the seventeen chosen to sail with Máel Dúin. When they found the killers’ forts in the night, it was Diurán who said that God had brought them there; at the silver pillar in the ocean he cut a piece from its net with the edge of his spear, so that his story would be believed; and on the queen’s island, when her ball of thread stuck to a comrade’s hand, he cut the hand off. On another island he bathed and drank in a lake where a great bird had renewed its youth, and after that, the tale says, his eyes were strong, and he never lost a tooth or a hair of his head, as long as he lived. At home he laid the silver on the altar of Armagh.

In the tales

  • The Voyage of Máel Dúin He set out to avenge his father and found the killers’ island in the dark. Then a wind took him, and for three years and seven months the ocean showed him wonders.

See also

  • Ard Mhacha Armagh. Where Diurán laid the silver from the net on the altar.
  • Máel Dúin The son of a raider and a nun, who put to sea to avenge his father and was three years and seven months among the islands of the ocean.

Sources

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

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.