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5. Context: 02 Togla Tunide Tige Burig/Buired. Buired
   Smutgal Tige Duma(ch). 03 Smutgal Tige Dumach
   Deochair Tige Cathbadh. 04 Deochair Tige Cathbadh
   Togail Tige Nechtain. 05 Togail Tige Nechtain
   Togail Bruidne Uí/Da Derga. 06 Togail Bruidne Uí Derga
   Togail Bruidne Broin (Briain) meic Briuin. 07 Togail Bruidne Broin
   Togail Bruidne hUí Duile. 08 Togail Bruidne hUí Duile
   Togail Bruidne Da Choca/Choga. 09 Togail Bruidne Da Choca
   Togail Trai. 10 Togail Trai
   Togail Dio (B). 11 Togail Dio
   Togail in Tuir. 12 Togail in Tuir
   Togail Larisa. 13 Togail Larisa
   Togail Elcluaidi. 14 Togail Elcluaidi
   Togail Duine Óenguso. 15 Togail Duine Óenguso
   Togail Bruidne Bélcon Breifne. 16 Togail Bruidne Bélcon Breifne
   Togail Dá Thi. 17 Togail Dá Thi
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Medieval Irish tale lists - § 2. Togla
Trechuairt/Treochair Tigi Lir (A; Bb)

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§ 2. Togla —

List of togla (pl. of togail ‘destruction, attack’) and similar titles in tale-lists A and B, ed. Proinsias Mac Cana, The learned tales of medieval Ireland (1980): 41 (A), 54–55 (Ba), 57–58 (Bb), with occasional reference to list X. While list A has a consecutive list, list B devotes two separate sections to them, which are here distinguished as Ba (all MSS) and Bb (not in Rawl. B. 512), roughly corresponding to the second and first halves of list A respectively. Titles with an alternative term in lieu of togail are attested in the section represented by the first half of A and by Bb. See also the list of oircne.

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List A reads Trechūairt Tigi Lir: ‘Trechuairt Tigi Lir’ (LL); ‘Treachuaird Tigi Lir’ (TCD 1336).
List Bb favours Treochair Tigi Lir: ‘Treochair Tighe Lir’ (RIA 23 N 10); ‘Trechur [with ɫ Treochair written above the line] Ticche Lir’ (Harl. 5280).

Trechuairt/Treochair Tigi Lir (A; Bb)

# 01 Trechuairt Tigi Lir Medieval Irish tale lists

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List A reads Trechūairt Tigi Lir: ‘Trechuairt Tigi Lir’ (LL); ‘Treachuaird Tigi Lir’ (TCD 1336).
List Bb favours Treochair Tigi Lir: ‘Treochair Tighe Lir’ (RIA 23 N 10); ‘Trechur [with ɫ Treochair written above the line] Ticche Lir’ (Harl. 5280).

Mac Cana, pp. 41 (A), 57 (Bb); Marie-Henri D'Arbois de Jubainville, Essai d'un catalogue de la littérature épique de l'Irlande: précédé d'une étude sur les manuscripts en langue irlandaise conservés dans les Iles Britanniques et sur le continent (1883): 252. Title referring to a lost tale known in A as Trechūairt Tigi Lir but in B as Treochair Tigi Lir. The first word in A seems to be tre-chúairt, perhaps ‘triple circuit, visitation’ (q.v. <DIL s.v. ‘trechúairt’>). The legal commentary in Harl. 432 (Mac Cana, p. 65) employs the same word for ‘Trecuairt Tighe Buradaig’, but this may have been written in error for Tunide Tige Burig/Buired, the next item in A and B, under the influence of the present title. For B’s variant treochair, see <DIL s.v. ‘tre-eochair’>. The latter is parallelled by another tale-title, Deochair Tige Cathbadh, further down the same list.

Agents

Manannán mac Lir <strong>Manannán mac Lir</strong> <br>mythological figure in Irish literature, typically associated with the sea
Ler ... father of Manannán No associated entry available from the subject index

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Tech Lir

Lexical items

Ir. tre-eochair, treochair
Ir. trechúairt
Ir. Tech Lir

Related texts

related: Oidheadh chloinne Lir

(probable) source: Trechúairt/Treochair Tigi Lir (lost)Trechúairt/Treochair Tigi Lir (lost)View incoming data

Working notes

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Tech Lir, lit. ‘Ler’s house/residence’, presumably refers to the name of Manannán’s father, Ler.Cf. the use of <em>Mag Lir</em> for the sea in the poem beg. <em>Anbthine mór ar muig Lir</em>.

It has been argued that Manannán’s description as mac Lir originally denoted a metaphorical ‘son of Sea/Ocean’ (cf. mac báis) rather than a patronymic, a notion also echoed by the Latin gloss in Sanas Cormaic s.v. ‘Manannan mac lir’ ([...] filium maris [...] .i. mac lir mac mara).

It has been suggested (e.g. Arbois de Jubainville) that the tale now lost is echoed in the Early Modern Irish tale of Oidheadh chloinne Lir: Lir’s dwelling at Síd Fionnachaidh threatens to be destroyed shortly after the tale opens, and when centuries have gone by, appears to have been deserted. Cf. also Lir in Acallam na senórach).