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    Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland"; Modern Irish spelling: Leabhar Gabhála Éireann, known in English as The Book of Invasions)...
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    Míl are the final race to settle in Ireland, according to In the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a medieval Irish Christian pseudo-history. The Milesians represent...
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    hand," Macalister (1941) ed. tr. Lebor Gabála Érenn, ¶305, ¶315, ¶357. Macalister (1941) ed. tr. Lebor Gabála Érenn, ¶319, Poem LXV, pp. 282–291 O'Curry...
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  • numbered four thousand, before dying of plague in a single week. The Lebor Gabála Érenn, an 11th-century Christian pseudo-history of Ireland, says that Ireland...
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    the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn. A Scottish variant is recorded by John of Fordun (d. 1384). The narrative in the Lebor Gabála Érenn is a legendary...
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    the Lebor Gabála, it is the people of Nemed who are drowned while trying to capture a tower by the sea. The earliest version of the Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn...
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    mythical races like the Fomorians. Important works in the cycle are the Lebor Gabála Érenn ("Book of Invasions"), a legendary history of Ireland, the Cath Maige...
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    conceived that they had arrived in clouds of mist". A poem in the Lebor Gabála Érenn says of their arrival: It is God who suffered them, though He restrained...
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    Cathasaigh's name, Cycle of the Gods. Important works in the cycle are the Lebor Gabála Érenn ("Book of Invasions"), the Cath Maige Tuired ("Battle of Moytura")...
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    that it "may have been more of a title than a personal name". The Lebor Gabála Érenn also calls Brigit a poetess and daughter of the Dagda. It says she...
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    Neimheadh) is a character in medieval Irish legend. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn (compiled in the 11th century), he was the leader of the third group...
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    Tara since ancient times, and compilations like the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn, followed by Early Modern works like the Annals of the Four Masters...
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    provinces, they are overthrown by the invading Tuatha Dé Danann. Lebor Gabála Érenn tells of Ireland being settled six times by six groups of people....
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    redaction of the Lebor Gabála Érenn. The 9th-century Historia Brittonum contains the earliest surviving version of the Lebor Gabala Erenn story (centred...
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  • texts to a Danu would then be Danand, daughter of Delbáeth. In the Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland), it is noted the Tuatha dé Danann...
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    identify the trio as daughters of the druid Cailitin and his wife. Lebor Gabála Érenn also states that Badb is one of the two wives of the war god Neit...
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    Mythological Cycle. In 12th-century pseudohistorical compilation the Lebor Gabála Érenn ("The Book of the Taking of Ireland"), she is listed among the Tuatha...
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    and the king's arm with a third of his shield fell to the ground". Lebor Gabála Érenn §58, 60, 64 Archived 15 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine; The First...
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    co-exists with the world of humans. This world is described in the Lebor Gabála Érenn as a parallel universe in which the aos sí walk among the living....
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  • (compensation), according to the account in the "Book of Invasions" (Lebor Gabála Érenn, LGE) as well as the late romance version "The Fate of the Children...
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  • of the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and p.187 of Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions); Trenfher “Strongman” or “Champion” in sections...
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  • September 2002. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-19-150639-0. Lebor Gabála Érenn, ed. and tr. R.A.S. Macalister. Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland. Part...
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  • Tuired and is called a "she-farmer" in the Lebor Gabála Érenn. Macalister, R. A. Stewart. "Lebor Gabála Érenn". Part IV. Irish Texts Society, Dublin, 1941...
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    Machine Lebor Gabála Érenn §38 Keating, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn 1.7 Annals of the Four Masters M2850 The Metrical Dindsenchas "Ard Macha" Lebor Gabála Érenn §62...
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    river in Ireland's historical province of Meath. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn and Táin Bó Fraích she was the sister of Befind and daughter of Delbáeth...
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  • Fiorurghlas, a descendant of Conchobar Abradruad, was, according to Lebor Gabála Érenn, a High King of Ireland. He took power after the death of Fedlimid...
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    from sources such as the "Roll of Kings" section of the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 17th-century, chronicles...
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  • Lugh his sword, as a symbol of the king. Neither the poems nor the Lebor Gabála Érenn say whether Lugh wielded the sword in the battle. It was said that...
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    (also spelt Breoghan, Bregon or Breachdan) is a character in the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a medieval Christian history of Ireland and the Irish (or Gaels)...
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  • died of grief over their graves. He is stated in various portions of Lebor Gabála Érenn to be the same person as Delbáeth mac Ogma, who is also credited as...
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