Dagda

or Dagh·da

[ dahg-duh ]

noun

, Irish Mythology.

1. a god, the chief of the Tuatha De Danann, the father of Angus Og and Brigit, and the leader of the battle against the Fomorians.

Example Sentences

Now Pidge and his indomitable little sister Brigit must fight for the good god Dagda and guard the manuscript from the covetous Morrigan.

From The Guardian

They encamped near the Fomorians, and in a little time Bove Derg, son of the Dagda, joined them with twenty-nine hundred men.

From Project Gutenberg

Cormac, in his "Glossary," tells us she was a daughter of the Dagda and a goddess whom all poets adored, and whose two sisters were Brigit the physician and Brigit the smith.

From Project Gutenberg

When Dagda thus distributed the underground palaces, Mac ind Oc, or as he was otherwise called Oengus, was absent and hence forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg

She was the daughter of the supreme head of the People of Dana, the god Dagda, “The Good.”

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