 art mac cuinn ("son of conn"), also known as art Ãenfer (literally "one man", used in the sense of "lone", "solitary", or "only son"),dictionary of the irish language, compact edition, royal irish academy, 1990, pp. 299-300, 485 was, according to medieval irish legend and historical tradition, a high king of ireland. according to legend, he was not conn's only son: he had a brother called connla, who fell in love with a fairy woman, and went with her to mag mell, never to be seen again. after that, art was alone and gained his nickname"the adventures of connla the fair", cross & slover 1936, pp. 488-490 (geoffrey keating says he had two brothers, connla and crionna, who were killed by their uncle eochaid finn).geoffrey keating, foras feasa ar Ãirinn 1.41 another fairy woman, bÃ© chuille, who had been banished to ireland by the tuatha dÃ© danann, fell in love with art, but, when she learned his father conn was still alive and a widower, agreed to marry him instead, on the condition that art be banished from tara for a year. the injustice caused famine in ireland, until art forced bÃ© chuille to leave as a forfeit in a game of fidchell."the adventures of art son of conn", cross & slover 1936, pp. 491-502 in another variant of the myth, bÃ© chuille places a geis on art, after he loses at a game of fidchell; under which he must leave ireland never to return until he can find and rescue the maiden delbchaem ("fair shape"). art travels to the land of wonder, facing untold dangers and is forced to kill delbchaem's mother a fearsome and supernatural figure, who has been foretold by druids that she would be killed by a suitor of her daughter. when art and delbchaem return to tara, delbchaem banishes bÃ© chuille from the land, returning fertility to the region. art succeeded to the high kingship after his brother-in-law conaire cÃ³em, was killed by nemed, son of sroibcenn, in the battle of gruitine. he ruled for twenty or thirty years. during his reign conaire's sons took revenge against nemed and his allies, the sons of ailill aulom, in the battle of cennfebrat in munster. ailill's foster-son lugaid mac con was wounded in 
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