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The poem thus identified the king of the island as one Manannan-beg-mac-y-Lheirr, 'little Manannan, son of the Sea' (or, 'son of Leir'). Manannan was later banished by Saint Patrick according to the poem. [112] [p] As to the Manx offering rushes to Manannán, there is evidence these wild plants—which typically grow in wetlands—were sacred ...
Midir's wife is Fuamnach, who is either beheaded by Midir's foster-son Aengus or otherwise killed by Manannan Mac Lir. [2] Midir's daughters included Bri Bruachbrecc and Ogniad (or Oicnis), who was the mother of Sigmall Cael.
HSC Manannan is a 96-metre (315 ft) wave-piercing high-speed catamaran car ferry built by Incat, Australia in 1998. After commercial service in Australia and New Zealand, she was chartered to the US military as Joint Venture (HSV-X1) .
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, then the Assistant District Attorney, attended a news conference at the Manhattan Supreme Court in New York on February 14, 2017. - Richard Drew/AP.
Manawydan fab Llŷr is a figure of Welsh mythology, the son of Llŷr and the brother of Brân the Blessed and Brânwen.The first element in his name is cognate with the stem of the name of the Irish sea god Manannán mac Lir, and likely originated from the same Celtic deity as Manannán.
For 16 years, a suburban New York prosecutor’s office insisted it had the right man in a notorious 1996 double killing. The office tried him five times, through a series of hung juries and ...
In his evidence to the court, he said that with hindsight "I am completely ashamed", and admitted he had been foolish to believe the theories. "I felt overly protective. I thought I was doing the ...
The tale bears the full manuscript title "(Scel na Fir Flatha,) Echtra Cormaic i Tir Tairngiri ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic in the text edited by Whitley Stokes, translated as "The Tale of the Ordeals, Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise, and the Decision as to Cormac’s Sword".