Gaulish god of cultivated fields.
[I] One of the three sons of Nemed who escaped after the defeat and death of their father. His son was Béothach. Iarbanel is said to be the ancestor of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, while his brother Starn was the ancestor of the Firbolg.
[I] Son of Béothach. A Nemedian who fled to Boeotia after the Fomorii had defeated them. He is said to be one of the ancestors of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.
[I] A son of Béothach.
Spain and Portugal. The Iberian peninsula was extensively settled by the Celts, perhaps as early as 900 b.c. Louis Siret [Questions de chronologie et d’ethnographie ibérique, Paris, 1913], a founding father of prehistoric archaeology, suggests that the Celts introduced the working of bronze into Spain at the start of the Bronze Age. The first wave of settlers appears to have been Goidelic-speaking. According to Irish mythological traditions, it was from Spain that the Gaels (Goidelic speakers) invaded and colonized Ireland.
The story of Míle Easpain (the Spanish soldier) is recounted in the Leabhar Gabhála (Book of Invasions). It would seem that the Goidelic-speaking settlers in Iberia were replaced in the middle of the first millennium by a fresh wave of Brythonic (Gaulish) speakers, for by the time Greek mariners were establishing their trading posts there the Celtic population had switched languages.
Herodotus (ca. 490–425 b.c.) is the first Greek historian to give a detailed account of the Celts of Iberia, and Aristotle gives the name “Celtica” to the mass of the country. Indeed, Ephoros of Cyme, in the fourth century b.c., indicates that the Celts stretched from the Pyrenees to Gades (Cadiz) in the south.
The end of an independent Celtic Iberia had its roots in the war between Carthage and Rome. In 237 b.c. the Carthaginian general
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