Editing The Dagda (section)

==Description==
The Dagda was one of the kings of the Tuatha De Danann. The [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] are the race of supernatural beings who conquered the [[Fomorians]], who inhabited Ireland previously, prior to the coming of the [[Milesians (Irish)|Milesians]]. The [[Mórrígan]] is described as his wife, his daughter was [[Brigit]],<ref name=Moytura>{{cite web |last1=Stokes |first1=Whitley |title=The Second Battle of Moytura |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300011/ |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |publisher=University College, Cork |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref> and his lover was [[Boann]], after whom the River Boyne is named, though she was married to [[Elcmar]] and with whom he had the god Aengus. Prior to the battle with the [[Fomorians]], he coupled with the goddess of war, the [[Mórrígan]], on [[Samhain]].<ref name="CMT">''[[Cath Maige Tuireadh]]''. [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/cmt/cmteng.htm Trans. Elizabeth A. Gray].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dagda|title=Dagda &#124; Celtic deity}}</ref> (Cf. {{section link||Family}}).

Of Dagda it is stated "He was a beautiful god of the heathens, for the Tuatha Dé Danann worshipped him: for he was an earth-god to them because of the greatness of his magical power", in the [[Middle Irish|Middle Irish language]] ''Coir Anmann'' (The Fitness of Names) says:<ref name="CA">''[[Coir Anmann]]''. [http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/fitness_of_names.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202314/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/fitness_of_names.html|date=3 March 2016}}</ref>

Tales depict the Dagda as a figure of immense power. He is said to own a magic staff, club or mace which could kill nine men with one blow; but with the handle he could return the slain to life. He owned a magic harp.

===Dagda's staff===
In the tract found in the [[Yellow Book of Lecan]], there were three items the Dagda named together, his staff ({{lang|sga|lorc}}), there was the shirt (''{{linktext|léine}}'') of protection from sickness, and the cloak ({{lang|sga|lumman}}) of shape-shifting and color-change.{{efn|Old Irish spellings normalized from redaction which reads "{{lang|sga|Lene}} [[Tironian et|⁊]] {{lang|sga|lorc ⁊ lumann}}".}} The "great staff" ({{lang|sga|lorg mór}}) had a smooth end which brought the dead back to life (he resuscitated his son Cermait Milbél with the smooth end), but the staff's rough end caused instant death.<ref name="dagdas_staff-ed-bergin"/><ref name="west2008"/>

The staff/club is also described in the [[Ulster Cycle]] narrative, ''[[Mesca Ulad]]'',<ref name="west2008"/> where it was called the "terrible iron staff" ({{lang|sga|lorg aduathmar iarnaidi}}).<ref name="mesca_ulad-ed&tr-henessey"/><ref>{{harvnb|Ó hÓgáin|1999|p=62}} renders as "a dreadful iron club".</ref>
<!--(Also, cf. "mace of wrath" below).-->

===Cauldron===
The Cauldron of the Dagda is one of the [[Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann]],<ref name="four_jewels-ed&tr-hull"/> of which it was said "an assembly used not to go unsatisfied from it".{{Refn|{{harvnb|Ó hÓgáin|1999|p=62}}, citing Hull ed. tr. "Four Jewels", but his quote is Ó hÓgáin's own translation, as it differs in wording from Hull's "Never went an assembly of guests away unsatisfied from the caldron of the Dagda".<ref name="four_jewels-ed&tr-hull"/>}}

The cauldron "signified plenty and generousity".{{sfn|Ó hÓgáin|1999|p=189}} Hence, his magic cauldron was otherwise known as the ''coire ansic'' ("the un-dry cauldron").{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

===Dagda's harp===
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After [[Uaithne|Úaithne]], the Dagda's harper was abducted by the [[Fomorians]], the Dagda went to the enemy's hall and retrieved his magic [[harp]], which had two names, according to the text of the ''[[Cath Maige Tuired]]'' ("Second Battle of Moytura").<ref name="CMT-ed&tr-gray1982">{{citation|editor-last=Gray |editor-first=Elizabeth A. |editor-link=<!--Elizabeth A. Gray--> |editor-mask=Gray, Elizabeth A. ed. tr. |others=Proof corrections by Benjamin Hazard |title=Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired |publisher=CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts|year=2003 |orig-year=1982 |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/G300010/ |at={{URL|1=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/G300010/text164.html|2=§163}}–{{URL|1=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/G300010/text165.html|2=§164}}, p. 70}}; {{URL|1=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300010/ |2=English translation}}: {{URL|1=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300010/text165.html|2=§163}}–{{URL|1=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300010/text166.html|2=§164}}, p. 71</ref> And when the Dagda called upon his harp by its two names: "Come Daur Dá Bláo / Come Cóir Cetharchair /
Come summer, come winter.." the harp leapt off the wall and came to him. The harp was forbidden by the Dagda from issuing any sound, unless thus called upon by the names,<ref name="CMT-ed&tr-gray1982"/> which translate to "Oak of Two Meadows"<ref name="CMT-notes-gray1982">{{cite book|editor-last=Gray |editor-first=Elizabeth A. |editor-link=<!--Elizabeth A. Gray--> |editor-mask=Gray, Elizabeth A. ed. tr. |title=Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired |publisher=Irish Texts Society |year=1982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BjzYAAAAMAAJ&q=Oak|at=notes to §163, p. 113}}</ref> and "the Four Angled Music";<ref name="CMT-tr-stokes1891"/> {{citation needed span|Hence, harp was a richly ornamented magic harp made of [[oak]] which, when the Dagda played it, put the seasons in their correct order;|date=June 2024}}<!--.--> The Dagda had the skill to play the "Three Strains" (joy, sorrow, sleep) which he used to immobilize the Fomorians and escape.<ref name="CMT-notes-gray1982"/>

===Other possessions===
He possessed two pigs, one of which was always growing whilst the other was always roasting, and ever-laden fruit trees. He is also described as being the owner of a black-maned heifer that was given to him for his labours prior to the Second Battle of Moytura. When the heifer calls her calf, all the cattle of Ireland taken by the Fomorians as tribute graze.<ref name="CMT-tr-stokes1891">{{cite web |last1=Stokes |first1=Whitley |title=The Second Battle of Moytura |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300011.html |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |publisher=University College, Cork, Ireland |access-date=13 December 2021}}</ref>