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    Manannán or Manann, also known as Manannán mac Lir ('son of the Sea'), is a sea god, warrior, and king of the otherworld in Gaelic (Irish, Manx, and Scottish)...
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    HSC Manannan is a 96-metre (315 ft) wave-piercing high-speed catamaran car ferry built by Incat, Australia in 1998. After commercial service in Australia...
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    wicked wizard Manannan. According to the introduction, for as long as he could remember, 17-year-old Gwydion has been held captive by Manannan as his servant...
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    Cormac mac Cuilennáin makes mention of Manannan and his father Lir, who Cormac identifies with the sea: Manannan mac lir .i. cennaige amra bói aninis Manand...
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    haughtiness. Cormac asks to make an alliance, and when Manannán agrees, he demands the branch, which Manannán gives him in exchange for three favours. Those favours...
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  • The Manannan Ballad or Manx Traditionary Ballad is a poem in Early Manx dating from about the beginning of the 16th century. It gives an account of the...
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    that of Manannán mac Lir in Irish mythology (corresponding to Welsh Manawydan fab Llŷr). In the earliest Irish mythological texts, Manannán is a king...
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  • The Enbarr (Énbarr) or Aonbharr of Manannán (Irish: Aonbharr Mhanannáin) is a horse in the Irish Mythological Cycle which could traverse both land and...
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    The House of Manannan is a museum in Peel in the Isle of Man. It is named after the "great mythological sea god" Manannan and covers the island's Celtic...
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    only jealousy comes when he falls in love with Fand, wife of Manannán mac Lir. Manannán has left her and she has been attacked by three Fomorians who...
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  • as well as Delbaeth, Ogma, Elloth (another name for Lir the father of Manannán mac Lir), and the Dagda by an unnamed mother. The imagery surrounding him...
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  • name of the Irish sea god Manannán mac Lir, and likely originated from the same Celtic deity as Manannán. Unlike Manannán, however, no surviving material...
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  • nominative form. Emain Ablach is one of the names of Manannán's dominion in Altram Tige Dá Medar: "Manannan’s house at Emain Ablach"Emain Ablach". This tale...
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  • Lugh as provisional king. Using his spear and a sling given to him by Manannán mac Lir, Lugh defeated the Formorians and their king Balor. During the...
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  • originally a deity, probably derived from Irish Ler ('the Sea'), father of Manannán mac Lir. Other than his progeny and odd tidbits, his identity remains obscure...
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    Morrígan ("the great queen" or "phantom queen"); Lugh; Nuada; Aengus; Brigid; Manannán; Dian Cecht the healer; and Goibniu the smith, one of the Trí Dé Dána ("three...
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  • the story, Manannan is named the high king over the Tuatha Dé along with Bodb Derg when the Tuatha Dé Danann descend into the sidhe; Manannan is called...
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  • the daughter of Áed Abrat, sister of Lí Ban and one Angus, and wife of Manannán. She enters the story in the form of an otherworldly sea bird. In her sea...
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  • the two names may have become associated by the early modern period, as Manannan is also named king of Mag Mell, and the bodach figure in Eachtra Bhodaigh...
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  • Neeve. In Irish mythology, Niamh is the daughter of the god of the sea, Manannán mac Lir and one of the queens of Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth...
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    makes him welcome. The woman may be the goddess Fand, the warrior may be Manannán mac Lir or Lugh, and after strange adventures the hero may return successfully...
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    Morrígan ("the great queen" or "phantom queen"); Lugh; Nuada; Aengus; Brigid; Manannán; Dian Cécht the healer; and Goibniu the smith. They are also said to control...
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    ground, golf club, bowling green and various other amenities. The House of Manannan Museum was built in 1997, costing £5.5 million, partly new and partly in...
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    turned into the first seals, but Biróg saved one, Lug, and gave him to Manannán and Tailtiu to foster. As an adult, Lug gained entry to Nuada's court through...
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    folklores of the Manx belong to the overall Celtic Mythology group, with Manannán mac Lir, the Mooinjer veggey, Buggane, Lhiannan-Shee, Ben-Varrey and the...
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    high-king Cormac mac Airt to the Land of Promise resided by the sea-god Manannán mac Lir. The tale bears the full manuscript title "(Scel na Fir Flatha...
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  • well as the Elysium of the Greeks. Legends say its ruler is the sea god Manannán mac Lir, or less often the Fomorian King Tethra. Mag Mell's allure extended...
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  • also attested as Lugus in Archaic Irish Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht, Mac Gréine Manannán mac Lir Miach Midir Mug Ruith Néit - called a "god of war" in Cormac's...
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  • nights, the group encounters the ocean deity Manannán mac Lir riding a chariot over the sea towards them. Manannán explains that while this may seem like a...
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  • other versions of her myth, she is the wife or daughter of the sea god, Manannán mac Lir. In folklore from County Limerick, Áine is said to have two daughters...
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