Craobh Airgid

I siombail an alltair agus údarás Miotaseolaíocht na nGael is ea an Chraobh Airgid.

Iomramh Bhrain

Sa dán Iomramh Bhrain, léiríonn an chraobh dul isteach chuig an Alltar:

Chun gabháil isteach san Alltar roimh uair socraithe an bháis, bhíodh pas de dhíth, de ghnáth craobh airgid den chrann úill coiscrithe faoi bhláth." ^[1]^[2]^[3]

Manannán mac Lir

Tá an chraobh gaolta le Manannán mac Lir, dia na mara, gaolta féin leis an alltar agus Eamhain Úllach, áit a fuarthas an chraobh draíochta airgid. Faightear an chraobh agus Manannán sa scéal His Three Calls to Cormac. Thug sé don rí:

"craobh airgid le húill óir. Delight agus amusement to the full an ea é éisteacht le ceol na craoibhe úd, agus thitfeadh fir gonta, nó mná i leaba linbh, nó daoine tinn, ina gcodladh leis an gceol agus an chraobh á croitheadh."

Caomhnaítear an scéal seo i roinnt lámhscríbhinní den 14ú agus 15ú haoiseanna, m.s. Leabhar Baile an Mhóta agus Leabhar Buí Leacáin.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Imagallamh an Dá Thuaradh

Bhíodh an tsiombail miotasach ag na déithe, sióga, draoithe, agus ag cách glactha isteach faoi rúndiamhair bheatha agus bháis. Déantar cur síos uirthi mar shiombal na ndraoithe i scéal Neidhe i Imagallamh an Dá Thuaradh'

"...thaistil sé le craobh airgid thar a chionn. D'iompraíodh na hÁnraidh, nó filí den dara aicme, craobh airgid, ach d'iompraíodh Ollaimh craobh óir; agus bhíodh craobhacha cré-umha ag gach file eile."^[9]^[10]^[11]

Cultúr na ndaoine

Is saothar i dtaobh béaloidis Cheiltigh is ea The Silver Bough le Florence Marian McNeill, béaloideasaí Albanach.

Is leabhar sa tsraith leanaí The Roman Britain Trilogy le Rosemary Sutcliff is ea The Silver Branch.^[12]

Tá úrscéal eile dar teideal The Silver Bough, Neil M. Gunn. Déantar teacht go minic ar amhrán The Silver Bough, á chanadh ag bean an tí an príomhcharachtair, agus tá craobh airgid musical aigesean le húill óir, déanta do ghariníon na mná tí.

Sa chlár faisnéise The Silver Branch le Katrina Costello, ceiliúrtar daoine agus tírdhreach miotasach an Boirne. Léiríonn Patrick McCormack miotas na Craoibhe, ag tabhairt cead don nádúir cabhrú linn, áit an duine sa domhan a aimsiú.

Naisc sheachtracha

Tagairtí

↑ cf. Eleanor Hull, The Silver Bough in Irish Legend, in Folk-Lore, lch. xii.
↑ Gods of the Celts Curtha i gcartlann 2018-09-30 ar an Wayback Machine, foilsithe ag Dalriada Publications
↑ James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, ll. 21, 205, 270, 322–3, 346, 359–60. ISBN 0-19-280120-1.
↑ eag. agus aistr. le Stokes, in Irische Texten, III. i. 183–229; cf. Voy. of Bran, i. 190 ff.; cf. Le Cycle Myth. Irl., ll. 326–33.
↑ His Three Calls to Cormac Curtha i gcartlann 2018-09-30 ar an Wayback Machine ar manannan.net
↑ Lady Gregory, online "His Three Calls to Cormac" in Gods and Fighting Men, Leabhar IV, Cuid I, 1903. Buckinghamshire, Colyn Smyth
↑ Jacobs, Joseph. "The Fate of the Children of Lir", More Celtic Fairy Tales. Maisithe le John D. Batten. Londain: David Nutt, 1894, ll. 204–209.
↑ Lady Gregory with a preface by W.B. Yeats (1905) – Chapter XI. – His Three Calls to Cormac, Gods and Fighting Men
↑ Among the early ecclesiastical manuscripts of the so-called Prophecies. Féach E. O'Curry, Lectures, lch. 383.
↑ cf. Eleanor Hull, op. cit., ll. 439–40.
↑ The Colloquy of the Two Sages, eag. agus aistr. le Whitley Stokes. Paris: Librairie Emile Bouillon, 1905.
↑ The Silver Branch, The Roman Britain Trilogy.

[1] . Eleanor Hull, The Silver Bough in Irish Legend, in Folk-Lore, lch. xii.

[2] Gods of the Celts Curtha i gcartlann 2018-09-30 ar an Wayback Machine, foilsithe ag Dalriada Publications

[MacKillop1-3] James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, ll. 21, 205, 270, 322–3, 346, 359–60. ISBN 0-19-280120-1.

[4] . agus aistr. le Stokes, in Irische Texten, III. i. 183–229; cf. Voy. of Bran, i. 190 ff.; cf. Le Cycle Myth. Irl., ll. 326–33.

[5] His Three Calls to Cormac Curtha i gcartlann 2018-09-30 ar an Wayback Machine ar manannan.net

[Gregory1-6] Lady Gregory, online "His Three Calls to Cormac" in Gods and Fighting Men, Leabhar IV, Cuid I, 1903. Buckinghamshire, Colyn Smyth

[7] Jacobs, Joseph. "The Fate of the Children of Lir", More Celtic Fairy Tales. Maisithe le John D. Batten. Londain: David Nutt, 1894, ll. 204–209.

[8] Lady Gregory with a preface by W.B. Yeats (1905) – Chapter XI. – His Three Calls to Cormac, Gods and Fighting Men

[9] Among the early ecclesiastical manuscripts of the so-called Prophecies. Féach E. O'Curry, Lectures, lch. 383.

[10] . Eleanor Hull, op. cit., ll. 439–40.

[11] The Colloquy of the Two Sages, eag. agus aistr. le Whitley Stokes. Paris: Librairie Emile Bouillon, 1905.

[12] The Silver Branch, The Roman Britain Trilogy.

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