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Definition of Dagda
1. Noun. Chief Celtic god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit.
Definition of Dagda
1. Proper noun. (Irish mythology). An important god in Irish mythology. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dagda
Literary usage of Dagda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pulse of the Bards (Cuisle Na H-éigse). Songs and Ballads by Patrick Joseph McCall (1904)
"THE HARP OF dagda. The Fomorians, after their defeat, were gathered together in
their banqueting hall, and had hung up on the wall a harp which they had ..."
2. The Foundations of England: Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"dagda. Brig. By all accounts Celtic state-worship was of a gloomy and ferocious
... The writer identifies dagda with Chronos or Saturn as a sort of ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine (1875)
"As Odin, too, is wrapped in a grey mantle of cloud, and rides a grey horse, it
is said of the dagda in the ancient poem on Aileach, ' greyer than the grey ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"Ogma had other appellatives, the most important being dagda, ... mentioned as
being an appellative of Ogma himself, or his «on under that of the dagda. ..."
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