An Chraobh Airgid

God or goddess

Airmed

Airmed

Daughter of Dian Cécht, who sorted the herbs that grew from her brother’s grave.

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When her father Dian Cécht had killed her brother Miach, three hundred and sixty-five herbs grew up through his grave. Airmed opened out her cloak and sorted them on it, each by its virtue, but her father mixed them together, so that no one knows their right cures. In the war with the Fomorians she sang spells with her father and brothers over the well of Sláine, where the dying were made whole.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Second Battle of Mag Tuired A beautiful king who gives nothing, a stranger with every art, an eye no army can face, and a harp that plays sorrow, laughter and sleep.

See also

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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