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sen i Kn^al nil and 'Aiue to Clin. I lis wife, Boand, "of bhe Bilver fore-arm " oi 

 " silver yoke," was drowned by the hazel well, which similarly drowned 

 Sinann, who was also Dairine. It was identified with the Severn,' beside 

 which lay the shrine of Nodens; Ciiil, another wife of Nechtan, was patroness 

 of the chief cemetery of the Dergthene at 'Oenach Culi (or Gloehair), near 

 Knocklong.- 



By this table it is evident that 1 to 5 are identical with the silver-handed god, 

 "son of Eochaidh, father of Tadg," and predecessor of Bress ; that 7 and 11 are 

 the same ; that 4, 7, and 8, the father of Glas, the red, or red-handed, god, are 

 identical, and 4 identities them with the first group ; that 4, 5, and 10, relations 

 of Sithbaicc and Dairfhine, are identical, and only the vague Nuada Fullou is 

 unidentified save with Bress, the successor of Nuada Argetlamh. Nuada was 

 a British god, not hitherto found in any Gaulish place-name or inscription. 3 

 So far from being " an Irish high king," he was (as we noted) a purely divine 

 nature power, god of light, of the deeps (of the earth and sea) and of war. 

 Thanks to the discovery of his temple in 1805 at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, 1 

 and his representation in metal there, we know how his worshippers regarded 

 him. Tablets are dedicated to him as " Devo H. Nodenti," or Nudenti, or 

 Nodonti. He rides in a chariot drawn by four horses, wielding a club, his 

 ■ head decked by a spiked crown, 5 or by rays. The winds fiy round him ; 

 he is surrounded by tritons and sea monsters, and a fisherman catches a 

 salmon. His temple has three cellae, so perhaps he was one of a triad, as 

 at Sid Nechtain, on the Boyne. Many figures of wolves were found, and 

 " Nudd the superior wolf lord " figures so late as the sixth century in a poem 

 of Taliessen. London and Ludgate were traditionally connected with his 

 name " Ludd," and he may have been the god whose temple lay where rises 

 the great dome of St. Paul's. Being a leading war god, he may be identical 

 with Nedem (Net), 1 Camulos, and Segomo. Net's wife Nemetone (Nemon) 



1 " Cu Nuadat," in one version of Boand legend (Metr. Dind S., x, p 20). For 

 hazel well, see Book of Leinster, pp. 15f> and 191. Identity of river with Severn (Metr. 

 Dind., x, p. 29) ; for Boand, Rev. Celt., xv, p. 293 ; xxii, p. 58. Note " Magh Leana,'" 

 p. 97 ; Metr. Diud S., x, pp. 27, 293. 



-' Supra, xxxiv, p. 63 ; Silva Gad., ii, p. 118. 



3 Unless he be the "Nuz " of Ker Nuz (Celtic Rev., i, p. 200; Bolder, ii, 76*). 



4 " Roman Antiquities in Lydney Park," Figure, Plate xiii. Plan iv, Tablets xx, 

 wolves, xxvii ; several torques were found. Hib Lect., iv, p. 127 ; Folk Lore, wii, 

 p. 39. 



* Similar spikes (perhaps of helmets) have been found, notably the beautiful ones of 

 the supposed bronze crown in the R. I. Acad, collection, and the three figured in the 

 Journal Ivernian Soc, iii, p. 110. 



6 " Mogh Nuadat " wears a salmon-skin shirt (" Magh Leana," pp. 3!», 1G3). Mr. A 

 Cook compares this with Nuada's salmon at Lydney Park. 



7 Col. Wood-Martin makes Neit, Nudd, Nuada, and (what seems evident!} wrong 

 Lir and Ludd the same. " Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, " i, pp, 304-7. 



