An Chraobh Airgid

God or goddess

Dian Cécht

Dian Céacht · Old Irish Dian Cécht

Physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who made Nuada’s hand of silver.

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With Credne the brazier he made Nuada a hand of silver that moved like any other. When his son Miach healed the king’s own hand, Dian Cécht killed him, and when his daughter Airmed had sorted the herbs that grew from Miach’s grave, he mixed them together, so that no one knows their cures. In the war with the Fomorians he and his children sang spells over the well of Sláine, and the dying who were cast into it came out whole. His son Cian was the father of Lugh.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Coming of the Tuatha Dé Danann They burned their ships on the shore, and for three days a druid’s mist hid them. Then they sent word to the people who held Ireland: half the land, or a battle.
  • 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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