Editing Manannán mac Lir (section)

====Gifts to the Fíana ====
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Manannán was also the owner of the "crane-bag" ({{langx|ga|corrbolg}}) full of treasures,<ref name="duanaire-crain-bag" /> according to the Middle-Irish Fenian lay "The Crane-Bag" ({{lang|mga|Duanaire Finn}} Poem VIII) datable to the 13th century,{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|{{lang|mga|Duanaire Finn}} was copied by Aodh Ó Dochartaigh (O'Doherty) dated 12 February 1627.<ref>{{harvp|MacNeill|1908|pp=xix–xx, xxiv, 135}}, {{harvp|Murphy|1953|p=165}}: "the scribe".</ref>}}

To Manannán was sent a woman transformed into the shape of a crane. She was Aoife, daughter of Dealbhaoth ({{langx|ga|Áiffe ingen Dealbhaoíth|italic=no}}), and mistress of Ilbhreac of many beauties ({{langx|ga|Ilbric Iolchrothaigh|italic=no}}).<ref name="duanaire-crain-bag" /> Ilbhreac here may have been Ilbhreac son of Manannán.<ref name="matthews-BIM-crane-bag" />{{unreliable source?|certain=y|date=July 2024|reason=Notorious peddler of wiccan/neopagan/neodruid "Celtic twilight" nonsense.}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Although he does not directly address Ilbhreac "of many beauties" of this crane-bag episode, [[George Lyman Kittredge]] remarks that Ilbhreac son of Manannán is mentioned in the ''[[The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne|Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada]]'', and that his name meaning "the variously spotted one" is connected with shape-shifting.<ref name="kittredge" /> Ilbrec's nickname in the crane-bag lay is shared by the protagonist of the werewolf tale, ''Eachtra Iollainn iolchrothaigh''. Kittredge also says another name mentioned alongside in the ''Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada'' Ábartach mac Alchaid Ioldathach (whose nickname means "of the Many-Colored Raiment"), also to be connected with shape-shifting.<ref name="kittredge" /> It is Iuchra daughter of Ábartach, the rival, who transforms Aoife into the crane. Ábartach also figures prominently in the Gilla Decair story (cf. ''infra'').}} Aoife was transformed by the druidery of her jealous love-rival (Iuchra daughter of Ábartach), whose spell was to last 200 years.<ref name="duanaire-crain-bag" />

When Aoife died, Manannán crafted her crane's skin into a magical treasure bag, whose contents were only visible when flooded during full tide, and would seem empty when the tide had ebbed.<ref name="duanaire-crain-bag" />{{sfnp|Spaan|1965|p=182}} The bag was in the possession of [[Lugh Lamhfada]], then taken by Lugh's killers, the three sons of Cermait. Later Manannán endowed it to [[Conaire Mór]] the high king at Tara.<ref name="duanaire-crain-bag" /> The crane-bag was eventually owned by Cumhall mac Trénmhóir, as told at the outset of this lay.<ref>"The Crane-bag", str. 1. {{harvp|MacNeill|1908|p=}} ed. p. 21, tr. p. 118.</ref>''[[Macgnímartha Finn]]''. This is assumed{{sfnp|MacNeill|1908|p=ix}}{{sfnp|Brown|1910|p=39}} to be the "treasure-bag" that was lost to Cumhall's "servant-turned-traitor", [[Liath Luachra]],<ref name="breatnach-nagy-review" /> who treacherously wounded Cumall in the [[Cath Cnucha]], but recovered later by [[Finn mac Cumhal|Cumhall's son, Finn]] when he grew up.<ref name="meyer-tr-macgnimartha" />
 
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Manannán also commissioned the craftsman Lucra (recté [[Luchta]]{{sfnp|Spaan|1965|p=182}}) to make him a shield to be made of wood, and this later passed on to Finn, according to the [[Ballad|lay]] ({{lang|ga|duan}}) "Shield of Fionn". The wood came from a withered [[hazel tree]], on the fork which Lugh had set the severed head of [[Balor]]. The venom had penetrated this tree, killing or blinding workers trying uprooting or handling it. Various owners are named, such as [[Tadg mac Nuadat]], but was given by Manannán to Crimall mac Trenmor, Finn's uncle, after the death of Finn's father.<ref name="duanaire-shield-of-fionn" /><ref name="buttimer" />