Treasure

The Sword of Nuada

The sword no one escaped.

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

Brought from the city of Findias. “When it was drawn from its deadly sheath, no one ever escaped from it, and it was irresistible.” (Stokes, 1891)

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.

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

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