Celtic fairy traditions
Dagda
In the conquest narrative, the Sons of Mil must make a treaty with Dagda before they can again gather crops and milk. His kingship therefore carries power over the ordinary resources of the land. Dagda distributes the underground palaces, assigning one to Lug and retaining residences associated with the Boyne. His family and holdings organize the Otherworld as a inhabited political realm.
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Principal account
ReportedIn the conquest narrative, the Sons of Mil must make a treaty with Dagda before they can again gather crops and milk. His kingship therefore carries power over the ordinary resources of the land.
Further detail
ReportedDagda distributes the underground palaces, assigning one to Lug and retaining residences associated with the Boyne. His family and holdings organize the Otherworld as a inhabited political realm.
Context & interpretation
Evans-Wentz combines named informants, manuscript narratives, and his own psychical theory in a 1911 survey. This entry preserves those distinctions: collected belief and literary tradition do not establish the physical existence of an Otherworld.
Original passages
Source 1
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
to make a treaty with > their supreme king, Dagda, who, in Cdir Anmann (§ 150), , is himself called an earth-god. Then whenOpen this page in the book
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Source 2
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
conquest, Dagda their ' high king made a distribution of all such palaces in his kingdom. He gave one sid to Lug, son of Ethne, another toOpen this page in the book
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Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 323
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- IMJ-0045-E001-P0323
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- 324
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