Editing Brigid (section)

==In early Irish literature==
''[[Sanas Cormaic|Cormac's Glossary]]'', written by Christian scribes in the 9th century and based on earlier sources, says that Brigit was a goddess and daughter of [[the Dagda]]. It describes her as a "goddess of poets" and "woman of wisdom" or [[Sage (philosophy)|sage]], who is also famous for her "protecting care". It says that Brigit has two sisters: Brigit the physician or "woman of healing", and Brigit the smith.<ref name="wright" /> It explains that from these, all goddesses in Ireland are called ''Brigit''; suggesting that it "may have been more of a title than a personal name".<ref name="koch">{{harvnb|Koch|2006|pp=287–288}}</ref>

The ''[[Lebor Gabála Érenn]]'' also calls Brigit a poetess and daughter of the Dagda. It says she has two oxen, Fea and Femen, from whom are named Mag Fea (the plain of the [[River Barrow]]) and Mag Femin (the plain of the [[River Suir]]). Elsewhere, these are named as the two oxen of Dil, "radiant of beauty," which may have been a byname for Brigid.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gwynn |first=Edward John |chapter=Poem 36: Mag Femin, Mag Fera, Mag Fea |chapter-url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T106500C/text036.html |title=The Metrical Dindshenchas |year=1905 |publisher=[[Hodges, Figgis & Co]] |lccn=06031290 |oclc=676746265 }}</ref>  It also says she possesses the "king of boars", [[Twrch Trwyth|Torc Triath]] (from whom the plain of Treithirne is named), and the "king of [[Domestic sheep|wethers]]", Cirb (from whom the plain of Cirb is named).<ref>{{cite LGE|volume=4}} § VII, First Redaction, ¶ 317.</ref> The animals were said to cry out whenever plundering was committed in Ireland. This suggests Brigid was a guardian goddess of domesticated animals.<ref name="ohogain"/><ref>{{harvnb|Ellis|1995|p=28}}</ref>

In ''[[Cath Maige Tuired]]'', Bríd is the wife of [[Bres]] and bears him a son, Ruadán. His name is cognate to several words in [[Indo-European languages]] that mean "red, rust", etc.<ref>{{harvnb|Stifter|1998|p=}}</ref> The story says she began the custom of [[keening]], a combination of wailing and singing, while mourning the death of Ruadán.<ref name="ohogain"/> She is credited in the same passage with inventing a whistle used for night travel.<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/cmt/cmteng.htm ''Cath Maige Tuired''] (The Second Battle of Mag Tuired), translated by Elizabeth A. Gray. ¶ 125</ref>

In her English retellings of Irish myth, [[Augusta, Lady Gregory|Lady Augusta Gregory]] describes Brigit as "a woman of poetry, and poets worshipped her, for her sway was very great and very noble.  And she was a woman of healing along with that, and a woman of smith's work, and it was she first made the whistle for calling one to another through the night."<ref>{{harvnb|Gregory|2015|p=24}}</ref>