Encyclopedia > Cormac mac Airt

Article Content

Cormac mac Airt

In Goidelic Celtic mythology, Cormac mac Airt was the son of Achtan and Airt. He may have been a historical Irish king. He ruled from Tara, the capital of the High Kings of Ireland for forty years, probably AD 227 to 266.

The sea god Manannan Mac Lir[?] gave him a magical gold goblet. It would break into three pieces when three lies were told over it; speaking three truths would fix it.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

French resistance

... and distributed in Paris. Group’s most famous members were Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre and later Georges Bidault[?]. (Combat paper was privatized in 1949 and becam ...