An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Lairgnéan

Lairgnéan mac Colmáin

King of Connacht: the man of the north.

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

His marriage to Deoch fulfilled the terms of Aoife’s spell. When he dragged the swans from the altar, their feathers fell.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Children of Lir A jealous stepmother, a druid’s wand, and four children who must live nine hundred years as swans.

Sources

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

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