An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Aodh

Aodh · Old Irish Áed

Say it: ay (in Ulster, ee) Munster /eː/ · Connacht, Ulster /iː/

Fionnuala’s twin. His name means “fire”.

Open it on the full site There every name opens, and a web shows who is kin to whom.

On the Sea of Moyle he sheltered against his sister’s breast. At the end, by her wish, he was buried standing before her face.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Children of Lir A jealous stepmother, a druid’s wand, and four children who must live nine hundred years as swans.

See also

  • Fionnuala The eldest of the Children of Lir. Her name means “fair shoulder”.

Sources

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

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