An Chraobh Airgid

Person

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Son of Bregon, who saw Ireland from a tower in Spain and paid for praising it.

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From the top of his father Bregon’s tower, on a clear winter’s evening, he saw a coast far off over the sea, and sailed to it. He found the three kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the sons of Cermait, quarrelling over their inheritance, judged between them, and praised the island too warmly. They sent men after him, and he fell on the plain that is named after him, Mag Itha; his body, carried home to Spain, brought the sons of Míl to Ireland. Geoffrey Keating did not believe in the tower: Spain, he said, knew Ireland already from long years of trade.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Song of Amairgen A poet sets his right foot on Ireland and sings that he is the wind on the sea. Three queens of the old gods meet him, and each asks for the island’s name.

See also

Sources

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

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