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    Étaín or Édaín (Modern Irish spelling: Éadaoin) is a figure of Irish mythology, best known as the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing Of Étaín), one...
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  • Look up étain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Etain (also Étain, Étáin) can refer to: Étaín, a character from Irish mythology the fairy princess in...
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    promises to give Étaín back. But at the appointed time, Midir brings fifty women, who all look alike, and tells Eochu to pick which one is Étaín. He chooses...
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  • (pronounced [ˈeːd̪ˠiːnʲ]; Old Irish: Étaín) is an Irish feminine given name. It is sometimes anglicised as Aideen. Étaín is the name of a heroine from Irish...
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  • transformations (including water, a worm, and a fly) Étaín fell into the drink of another woman and is reborn. Étaín later marries Eochaid Airem, at that time the...
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    with one of Lugh's wives. In The Wooing of Etain, Aengus is able to partially lift a spell against Étaín, the horse goddess he won for his brother Midir...
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    Étain (French pronunciation: [etɛ̃] ) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Étain is situated on the river Orne, approximately...
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  • Old Irish saga Tochmarc Étaíne ("The Wooing of Étaín"), which tells of the lives of the beautiful Étaín, the lover of Midir of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who...
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  • seated Étáin in the centre of the house, she struck her wand of scarlet rowan (cáerthann) on her, transforming her rival into a pool of water. When Étaín changed...
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  • and Gallo-Roman mythology Rhiannon, the horse goddess in Welsh mythology Étaín, identified as a horse goddess in some versions of Irish Mythology Gontia...
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  • Búachalla, daughter of Étaín and the former High King Eochu Feidlech (or, in Tochmarc Étaíne, his brother Eochu Airem and his daughter by Étaín), who, because...
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    Eithnenn, Eithlenn, Eithna, Ethni, Edlend, and Edlenn. In the "Wooing of Étaín", we are told that Eithne's other name is Boand and in the Banshenchas Ethniu's...
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  • Wooing of Etain, is the brother of Eochaid Feidlech, a High King of Ireland. In this tale, Ailill fell in love with his brothers wife, Étaín, who was one...
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    rid of them. Likewise, in the Tochmarc Étaíne, Fuamnach jealously turns Étaín into a butterfly. The most dramatic example of shapeshifting in Irish myth...
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    fifteen schools in Ireland under lay Catholic control. The last principal, Étaín Ní Mhórdha, was a granddaughter of the founder, while the Board of Management...
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    triumvirate of goddesses, sisters, eponymous for Ireland (mainly Ériu) Ernmas Étaín - the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne Ethniu (Ethliu) - the daughter of the Fomorian...
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  • Find ("Fair Woman") is applied to the heroine Étaín by Midir in Tochmarc Étaíne (English: The Wooing of Étaín). The text includes a poem attributed to Midir...
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  • The canton of Étain is an administrative division of the Meuse department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
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  • Etain Madden (8 January 1939 – 1982) was an Irish feminist and political activist. Etain Madden was born in Dublin on 8 January 1939. She was the only...
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  • providing him with a Celtic Brigantian scout, Etain. Marching north, the legion rescues Dias from his pursuers. Etain leads them into an ambush where, surprised...
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  • father is Elatha and his mother is usually given as Ethliu, sometimes as Étaín. In the Ogam Tract, he is called the son of Elatha and brother of Delbaeth...
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    pieces in The New Yorker magazine were published in 1925 under the pen name Etain Shrdlu. At least one piece in The New Yorker magazine had Etaoin Shrdlu...
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  • after being fooled into believing she was her mother Étaín. (In the Banshenchas Eochu and Étaín's daughter is named as Esa). In Togail Bruidne Dá Derga...
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    Peters, Kurt; Schulte-Peevers, Andrea; Johnstone, Sarah; O'Carroll, Etain; Oliver, Jeanne; Parkinson, Tom; Williams, Nicola (2004). Germany. Melbourne...
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  • endurance" between Midir, a fairy king, and his love for a princess, Étaín. In the story, Étaín is banished and transformed into a pool of water and emerges from...
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    substance), the origin of the Romance and Celtic terms for tin, such as French étain, Spanish estaño, Italian stagno, and Irish stán. The origin of stannum/stāgnum...
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    ("doctor") Eadon, daughter of Dianus and nurse of the poets—presumably Étaín, Brigid, or Airmed Goibnen, faber ("smith/architect") Lug, son of Eithne...
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    Aided Chlainne Lir ("Children of Lir") and Tochmarc Étaíne ("The Wooing of Étaín"). The characters appearing in the cycle are essentially gods from the pre-Christian...
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    Cruachan was named after Crochen, the handmaid of Étaín, a sídhe maiden reborn as a mortal. When Étaín is brought back to the Otherworld by her original...
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    P-61 at Étain-Rouvres Air Base, France, with rockets mounted, c. 1944....
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