Editing Goibniu (section)

== Mythology ==
When Nuada's arm is cut off in battle, Goibniu crafts him a new one of silver, thus he is known as [[Nuada Airgetlám]] "Nuada of the Silver Arm". He also makes weapons for the gods. In the ''[[Lebor Gabála Érenn]]'', he is described as "not impotent in [[smelting]]",<ref name="LGE64">Section 64 of the [[Lebor Gabála Érenn]], available in translation at http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/lebor4.html#55</ref> and is said to have died, along with Dian Cecht, of a "painful plague".<ref name="LGE64" /> During the Second Battle of Moytura, Goibniu is speared by [[Brigid|Brígh's]] son Ruadán, but he removes the spear and kills Ruadán with it.<ref>[https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T300011/text125.html ''The Second Battle of Moytura'' Section 125]</ref>

Goibniu also acts as a [[hospitality|hospitaller]] who furnishes feasts for the gods. According to the ''[[Acallam na Senórach]] and Altram Tige Dá Medar'', the feast of Goibniu was bestowed on the warriors of the Tuatha Dé by Manannán to protect them from sickness and decay.<ref>[http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/fosterage.html ''The Book of Fermoy'' "The Fosterage off the House of the Two Pails"]</ref> He is said to be the owner of the [[Glas Gaibhnenn]], the magical cow of abundance and in surviving folklore also has a magical bridle for the cow.

In the St Gall incantations,<ref>The St. Gall Incantations. ''Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus'' edited and translated by [[Whitley Stokes (scholar)|Whitley Stokes]] and [[John Strachan (linguist)|John Strachan]]. Cambridge: University Press, 1903.</ref> Goibniu is invoked against thorns (either literal or metaphorical):

<blockquote>Nothing is higher than heaven, nothing is deeper than the sea. By the holy words that Christ spake from His Cross remove from me the thorn, a thorn..... very sharp is Goibniu’s science, let Goibniu’s goad go out before Goibniu’s goad!
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This charm is laid in butter which goes not into water and (some) of it is smeared all round the thorn and it (the butter) goes not on the point nor on the wound, and if the thorn be not there one of the two teeth in the front of his head will fall out.<ref>Jones, Mary [https://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/incantations_gall.html "The St. Gall Incantations"]</ref></blockquote>

Goibniu may be the same figure as [[Culann]].