An Chraobh Airgid

God or goddess

Ogma

Oghma · Old Irish Ogma

Champion of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and brother of the Dagda.

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Under Bres he was set to carry firewood, and was so weak with hunger that the sea took two thirds of every bundle. When Lugh came to Tara, Ogma was the champion the doorkeeper named, and he tried Lugh by hurling through the house a flagstone that took eighty yoke of oxen to move. At the second battle of Mag Tuired he met Indech, king of the Fomorians, in single combat, and afterwards went with Lugh and his brother the Dagda after the Fomorians who had carried off the Dagda’s harper. Stokes’s translation calls him son of Elathu, of Ethliu and of Étaín.

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

  • Bres The beautiful king of the Tuatha Dé who gave nothing, son of a Fomorian king.
  • The Fomorians Old enemies of the gods. In folklore, giants.
  • Lugh The god of many skills.
  • Teamhair The Hill of Tara. Seat of the high kings, and of the stone that cried out.

Sources

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

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