Celtic Mythology

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Fionn mac Cumhaill: Salmon of Knowledge, the Fianna, and Fenian Tradition

Fionn mac Cumhaill—also spelled Finn mac Cumaill and popularly anglicized as Finn MacCool—is the leader of the Fianna in Irish and Scottish Gaelic heroic tradition. His stories form the Fionn or Fenian Cycle, a changing body of medieval literature, oral narrative, poetry, and ballad rather than one fixed biography. Fionn can be a boy in

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Lugh displaying his arts and skills at Tara

Lugh Samildánach: Master of Many Arts and the Battle of Mag Tuired

Lugh is one of the most important figures in medieval Irish myth: a warrior, ruler, organizer, and master of many arts. His best-known epithet, Lámfhada, is usually translated “Long Arm” or “Long Hand.” Yet his defining title in The Second Battle of Mag Tuired is Samildánach—the one who possesses many skills. Lugh matters not because

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