Editing Manannán mac Lir (section)

====Over-king====
An over-king's role for Manannán among the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] is described in the narrative ''Altram Tige Dá Medar'' ('The Nourishment of the Houses of Two Milk-vessels') in the 14th to the 15th century manuscript, the ''[[Book of Fermoy]]''.<ref name="dobs-altram" /><ref name="duncan-altram" /> [[Máire MacNeill]] gave a summary of the work.<ref name="macneill-altram" />{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Manx writer [[Arthur William Moore]] gave a crude paraphrase from the Book of Fermoy as follows: "he was a pagan, a lawgiver among the Tuatha Dé Danann, and a necromancer possessed of power to envelope himself and others in a mist, so that they could not be seen by their enemies".{{sfnp|Moore|1891|p=3}}}}

After the Tuatha Dé Danann were defeated by [[Érimón]] of the [[Milesians (Irish)|Milesians]] (humans), [[Bodb Derg]] was chosen as king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and Manannán as co-king or perhaps the king's overseer.{{efn|"Bodb Derg was made king by the men and Manannán&nbsp;... over them" (Duncan tr., p. 207)}} In one passage Manannán declares he has assumed over-kingship above the petty kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann.<ref>{{harvp|Duncan|1932|p=184–185}}: "Manannan&nbsp;... appears to have, and indeed claims, an overlordship over all the Tuatha De Danann kings".</ref><ref>{{harvp|Duncan|1932|p=209}}: "I am over-king of your kings".</ref>

Manannán was tasked with allotting which [[sídhe]] or fairy mounds the surviving members of the Tuatha Dé Danann were to be settled.{{sfnp|Duncan|1932|pp=206–207}} Manannán's own dwelling was at [[Emain Ablach]], in the city of Cruithin na Cuan, as the tale later reveals.{{sfnp|Duncan|1932|pp=215, 217}} Manannán ensured the welfare of the Tuatha Dé Danann by concealing in the ''[[féth fíada]]'' or a mist of invisibility,{{efn|Cf. Manannan's poem re Mag Mell in ''Imram Brain'', below.}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Cf. also O'Curry's copious notes for ''Feth Fiadha'' (n15), ''Fleagh Ghoibhneann'' or "Goibhneann's Banquet" and "Manannan's Pigs" (n17), in his recapitualation of this portion of the tale (which he calls the "Tale of Curchóg").<ref name="ocurry-altrom" />}} holding the Feast of Goibniu (Fleadh Goibhneann) which conferred eternal youth,{{Refn|A. C. L. Brown considered this to be the "ale of Góibniu the Smith".{{sfnp|Brown|1910|p=38}}}} and feeding them Manannan's Swine (Mucca Mhannanain) which gave an inexhaustible supply of food.<ref name="dobs-altram" />{{sfnp|Duncan|1932|p=207}}<ref name="macneill-altram" />{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Such a revivifying pig is also mentioned in {{lang|sga|Echtra Chormaic}},<ref name="stokes-echtra-cormaic" /> and in the modern version,<ref name="ogrady-faghail" /> seven such pigs belong to the youth who is Manannan in disguise.{{sfnp|O'Grady|1857|pp=220–223}}}} Arbois de Jubainville stated that these seven pigs here and {{lang|ga|Manannán|italic=unset}}'s swine of the ancient text parallel each other.{{sfnp|Arbois de Jubainville|1903|at=187 and note 2}} The routine for reviving the seven pigs was to put the bones in the sty (or manger).<ref>{{harvp|O'Grady|1857|pp=220–223}}; {{harvp|Arbois de Jubainville|1903|p=187}}</ref>{{efn|See [[#Parallels|§ Parallels]], below, for similar swine in other mythologies.}}