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What's a piece of esoteric knowledge you have? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if I can call this knowledge since I don't know if it's true, but I think I identified a couple of women from the 8th century CE who are mentioned in some Irish annals as actually being the same person. As far as I know there's next to no discussion of these women on the internet and there are basically no historical records of them, at least. So I guess if I'm right it's very obscure?

The women in question are Eithne ingen Bresail Bregh and Eithne ingen Cinadhon (and possibly also the legendary Eithne mother of Tuathal Techtmar)

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is a really good one. Were they/was she a notable individual? I'm imagining humorously it's a completely random person.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 13 points 1 day ago

It's about as close to a random person as you can get while still being recorded. They were royalty, but the two real ones get literally a sentence each at max

Eithne ingen Bresail Bregh married the king of Tara and is described as "having deserved reward from God for her good works, and for her intense penance for her sins" in one source and "deserved to obtain the heavenly kingdom, having done penance" in the other
Eithne ingen Cinadhon was the daughter of a Pictish king and is literally only recorded as having died
The legendary Eithne is the daughter of a king of Scotland (mostly Pictish at the time) and crossed the sea to Ireland, where she gave birth to the hero Túathal Techtmar. This is the entirety of her role in the story; a couple of paragraphs in a collection that, in the translation I'm looking at, has 600 pages just for part five