Echtra Condla

The tale tells of the 'seduction' of Connla, son of Conn of the Hundred Battles by a woman of the Aos Si.

[n 2] Echtra Condla opens at the Hill of Uisneach, where the tale's eponymous hero, Conle (the Ruddy), is sitting with his father, Conn of the Hundred Battles.

The woman speaks to Conn rebuking the druid, describing his words as lies coming from a demon.

The woman then beckons Conle to come with her, promising a happy land full only of women and maidens.

[1] Oskamp 1974 states that the text should be understood as a literary production of the twelfth century, whatever older strata of tradition may have informed it.

[5] Earlier translators such as (O'Beirne Crowe 1874) and (MacSwiney 1884) interpreted the text simply as Aos Si (People of the Mounds).