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Medieval Irish tale lists - § 2. Togla
Trechuairt/Treochair Tigi Lir (A; Bb)
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).
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).
Ler ... father of Manannán No associated entry available from the subject index
Ir. trechúairt
Ir. Tech Lir
Working notes
To be checked:
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).