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attacked. While Buinne was bribed to stop fighting to protect his charges, his brother Iollan was killed, as were Ainlé and Ardan. Naoise was killed by Eoghan Mac Durthacht, who slew him by seizing the magic sword Manannán Mac Lir had once given Naoise. Another version says a Norse prince named Maine killed him. See Deirdre.
[W] More popularly given as Arberth, court of the lords of Dyfed.
[I] The name means “shame.” He was a swineherd of the Bodb Dearg and rival of the swineherd of Ochall Ochne of Connacht. The two swineherds fought through many reincarnations until Nár was born as Donn, the Brown Bull of Cuailgne.
[I] A Connacht champion in Medb’s army who found the Brown Bull of Cuailgne and drove it to the Connacht army. In another version, this adventure falls to Buic.
[I] See Emain Macha.
[I] A water god and husband of Boann.
[I] Mother of three supernatural sons, Foill, Fannell, and Tuachell, who were slain by Cúchulainn.
[I] Pharaoh of Egypt who emerges in Irish myth because his daughter Scota married Milesius. She is not to be confused with Scota the daughter of the pharaoh Cingris and mother of Goidel, the progenitor of the Gaels. There were, in fact, two pharaohs named Nectanebus in the Thirtieth Dynasty; the first ruled from 380–363 b.c. and the second from 360–343 b.c. The name Nechtan, derived from Nectanebus, was apparently popular in Ireland, and several historical personages, as well as mythical characters, bore it.
[I] A Red Branch poet who fought a contest with Fer Cherdne for the honour of being chief poet of Ireland.
[I] See Nemeton.
[I] Sometimes Net. A god of war. His wife appears as Nemain, part of the triune goddess Mórrígán. It may well be that the name is merely a synonym for Nuada, for Nemain is often confused with Nuada’s wife, Macha.
[I] A war goddess and wife of Néit. She is listed as one of the five goddesses who hover over battlefields, inspiring battle madness:
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