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In Irish mythology, Bodb Derg (Old Irish: /ˈboðβ ˈdʲeɾg/ 'Bodb the Red'; Middle and Modern Irish Bodhbh Dearg /ˈboːβ ˈdʲaɾəg/) was a son of Eochaid Garb.[1] or the Dagda,[2] and the Dagda's successor as King of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. ...
Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be, more or less, fully reconstructed from extant sources. ...
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The Dagda is an important god of Irish mythology. ...
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Aengus asks for his brother Bodb's help in finding the woman of his dreams in "Aislinge Óenguso" (the Dream of Aengus). At the time, Bodb is king of the síde of Munster. Bodb successfully identifies the woman as Caer Ibormeith.[3] In Irish mythology, Aengus (Ãengus, Óengus, Angus, Aonghus, Anghus) aka Aengus Óg (Aengus the Young), Mac ind Óg (son of the young), Maccan or Mac Óg (young son) was a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann and probably a god of love, youth and poetic inspiration. ...
SÃdhe (IPA , shee) is an Irish word referring first to earthen mounds that were thought to be home to a supernatural race related to the fey and elves of other traditions, and later to these inhabitants themselves. ...
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In Irish mythology, Caer Ibormeith was a daughter of Ethal and Prince Anubal of Connacht. ...
Following the Tuatha Dé Danann's defeat in the battle of Tailtiu, Bodb is elected king of the Tuatha Dé Danann in the "Children of Lir", just as the Tuatha Dé are going underground to dwell in the síde. He subsequently fathered many deities. Bodb's election is recognised by all of his rivals, save only Lir, who refuses him homage. Bodb, however, counsels his followers to forebear from punishing Lir; later, Bodb will successively offer two of his own daughters in marriage to Lir to placate him. Both marriages, however, end unhappily.[2] Tailtiu (Tailltiu, Tailte, Teia Tephi) is the name of a presumed goddess from Irish mythology and the town in County Meath that was named after her. ...
SÃdhe (IPA , shee) is an Irish word referring first to earthen mounds that were thought to be home to a supernatural race related to the fey and elves of other traditions, and later to these inhabitants themselves. ...
In Celtic mythology, Lir (the sea) was the god of the sea, father of Manannan mac Lir, Bran, Branwen and Manawydan by Penarddun and a son of Danu and Beli. ...
As king of the Munster síde, Bodb Sída ar Femen ('of the Mound on Femen') plays a role in an important prefatory tale to Táin Bó Cuailnge, for it is his swineherd who quarrels with that of the king of the Connacht síde; the swineherds are later swallowed and reborn as the magical bulls Donn Cuailnge and Finnbennach, of which the former was the object of the great cattle-raid.[4] The Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley, is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. ...
In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology Donn Cuailnge, the Brown Bull of Cooley, was an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the Táin Bó Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) was fought. ...
In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Finnbhennach (white-horned) was an extremely fertile stud bull owned by king Ailill of Connacht. ...
In one Fenian tale, Bodb leads the Tuatha Dé Danann to the aid of the Fianna at the Battle of Ventry.[5] The Fenian Cycle also known as the Fionn Cycle, Finn Cycle, Fianna Cycle, Finnian Tales, Fian Tales, Féinne Cycle, Feinné Cycle, Ossianic Cycle and Fianaigecht, is a body of prose and verse centering on the exploits of the mythic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill and his warriors the Fianna Éireann. ...
In Irish mythology, the Fianna were Irish warrior-hunters who served the High King of Ireland in the 3rd century AD. Their adventures were recorded in the Fenian Cycle. ...
The name Bodb could be a cognate of "bádhbh"[citation needed] as it has a similar pronunciation; Bodb Derg would then mean "Red Crow". Given the fluidity of Old Irish scribal practice, the name of the female mythological character Badb was occasionally spelled Bodb as well.[6] Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be, more or less, fully reconstructed from extant sources. ...
In Irish mythology, the Badb ( crow in Old Irish; modern Irish Badhbh means vulture or carrion-crow) was a goddess of war who took the form of a crow, and was thus sometimes known as Badb Catha (battle crow). ...
References
- ^ Lebor Gabála Érenn, edited by R. A. Stewart Macalister. 1941. Irish Texts Society, Dublin. Part IV, § VII, ¶316 (p.131).
- ^ a b "The Children of Lir". P.W. Joyce (translator). 1879. Old Irish Romances. C. Kegan Paul & Co.
- ^ "The Dream of Óengus". Jeffrey Gantz (translator). 1982. Early Irish Myths and Sagas. Penguin. The Irish text is available at the Corpus of Electronic Texts.
- ^ De Chopur in dá Muccida, the "Quarrel of the Two Swineherds". The Irish text is available at the Corpus of Electronic Texts. An English translation was included in Thomas Kinsella's The Tain (Oxford Paperbacks, 1970), ISBN 0-19-281090-1.
- ^ Cath Finntrágha, the "Battle of Ventry". The Irish text is available at the Corpus of Electronic Texts.
- ^ An example of this occurs in the Third Redaction of Lebor Gabála Érenn, op. cit., Part IV, § VII, ¶368 (p.188).
Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) is the Middle Irish title of a loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of the Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages. ...
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