Aislinge Cormaic ‘Cormac’s dream vision’
- prose
- Cycles of the Kings
King Cormac mac Airt experiences a dream vision in which his wife Eithne Thóebfhota sleeps with the Ulsterman Eochu Gunnat and later returns to Cormac. The druids explains the dream to Cormac, saying that Eochu will be king of Tara for one year.(1)n. 1 31 note 109 Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977).
Manuscripts
This narrative is preserved as an interpolation in a longer text about Nia son of Lugna Fer Trí.
p. 246ff
Form
prose (primary)
Sources
Notes
31 note 109 Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977).
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024
