An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Eithne the Long-sided

Eithne Thaobhfhada · Old Irish Eithne Tháebfhota

Cormac’s queen, and the last of the three that Manannán took.

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Wife of Cormac mac Airt. In Cormac’s adventure she is the daughter of Dúnlang, king of Leinster. Twice Cormac let the silver branch put his household’s grief to sleep, but when the stranger took Eithne he would not bear it, and followed her into the mist. Under the cup, Manannán swore that she had not seen a man’s face since she was taken from Tara.

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

Sources

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

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