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L’autre monde dans les visions médiévales irlandaises
Ist Teil von
Caietele Echinox, 2013 (24), p.72-96
Ort / Verlag
Echinox Cultural Foundation
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Among the different story-types of the Irish compilations of traditional narratives from the 11th-16th century, three species evince a special relationship to eschatology: the immrama (ocean travels to the enchanted islands of Manannán Mac Lir), the echtrai (descents to the underground realm of the Tuatha De Danann) and the fisi (ecstatic revelations of the afterworld). Deriving from the pagan motif of the baile (the vision of a druid), the fis genre was adapted by Irish monks to disclose the Christian conception of the
otherworld. Heavily influenced by the Judeo-Christian apocalypses, the fisi developed a rather coherent common pattern, consisting of several topics: 1. the ‘raptus animae’; 2. the ascension of the soul through the skies and its trial; 3. the purgatory ordeal; 4. God’s Throne of Judgment; 5. the bridge; 6. the waste land of pains; 7. the infernal pit; 8. the land of the blessed; 9. the celestial Kingdom of God; 10. the return of the soul to its body. From the rough visions of St. Fursa and St. Laisrén to the elaborated soul voyages ofAdamnán and Tnugdale, the fisi can be said to prepare Dante’s great eschatological system.