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Originally they were said to come from under the sea or the earth. Later, they were portrayed as sea raiders and giants. They are enemies of Ireland's <a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">first settlers</a> and opponents of the <a href="/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Danann</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the other supernatural race in Irish mythology; although some members of the two races have offspring. The Tuath Dé defeat the Fomorians in the <i><a href="/wiki/Cath_Maige_Tuired" title="Cath Maige Tuired">Battle of Mag Tuired</a></i>. This has been likened to other <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Indo-European myths</a> of a war between gods, such as the <a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir%E2%80%93Vanir_War" title="Æsir–Vanir War">Æsir and Vanir</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Titanomachy" title="Titanomachy">Olympians and Titans</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ohogain312-315_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ohogain312-315-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One theory is that the Fomorians were supernatural beings representing the wild or destructive powers of nature; personifications of chaos, darkness, death, blight and drought.<sup id="cite_ref-macculloch_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macculloch-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-smyth_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smyth-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sjoestedt_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sjoestedt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Old_Irish" title="Old Irish">Old</a> and <a href="/wiki/Middle_Irish" title="Middle Irish">Middle Irish</a>, the race is usually called the <i>Fomóire</i> or <i>Fomóiri</i> (plural), and an individual member is called a <i>Fomóir</i> (singular). In Middle Irish, they are also called the <i>Fomóraiġ</i> (plural) and a <i>Fomórach</i> (singular). This is spelt <i>Fomhóraigh/Fomóraigh</i> (plural) and <i>Fomhórach</i> (singular) in <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Modern Irish</a>. Their name is <a href="/wiki/Latinisation_of_names" title="Latinisation of names">Latinized</a> as <i>Muiridi</i> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Bretnach" title="Lebor Bretnach">Lebor Bretnach</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In English, they are called the Fomorians, Fomori or Fomors. </p><p>The etymology of the name is debated. The first part is generally agreed to be the Old Irish <i>fo</i>, meaning under, below, lower, beneath, nether, etc. The meaning of the second part is unclear. One suggestion is that it comes from Old Irish <i>mur</i> (sea), and that the name means something like "the undersea ones".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was the interpretation offered by some medieval Irish writers.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another suggestion is that it comes from <i>mór</i> (great/big) and means something like "the great under(world) ones", "the under(world) giants" or "the nether giants". A third suggestion, which has more support among scholars, is that it comes from a hypothetical Old Irish term for a demon or phantom, found in the name of <a href="/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan" title="The Morrígan">The Morrígan</a> and cognate with the archaic English word "<a href="/wiki/Mare_(folklore)" title="Mare (folklore)">mare</a>" (which survives in "nightmare").<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name would thus mean something like "underworld demons/phantoms"<sup id="cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mythlegendromance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or "nether demons/phantoms". Building on this, <a href="/wiki/Marie-Louise_Sjoestedt" title="Marie-Louise Sjoestedt">Marie-Louise Sjoestedt</a> interprets the name as meaning "inferior" or "latent demons", saying the Fomorians are "like the powers of chaos, ever latent and hostile to cosmic order".<sup id="cite_ref-sjoestedt_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sjoestedt-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_T._Koch" title="John T. Koch">John T. Koch</a> suggests a relationship with <a href="/wiki/Tartessian_language" title="Tartessian language">Tartessian</a> <i>omuŕik</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally the Fomorians seem to have been regarded as malevolent spirits dwelling underwater and in the nether regions of the earth.<sup id="cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mythlegendromance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In one of the earliest references to them, a probably 7th-century elegy for Mess-Telmann, they are said to dwell "under the worlds of men".<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later they were portrayed as sea raiders. This was influenced by the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(800%E2%80%931169)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Ireland (800–1169)">Viking raids on Ireland</a> that were taking place around that time.<sup id="cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mythlegendromance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They are often portrayed as monstrous.<sup id="cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mythlegendromance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Carey_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sometimes they are said to have the body of a man and the head of a goat, according to an 11th-century text in <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_na_hUidre" title="Lebor na hUidre">Lebor na hUidre</a></i> (the Book of the Dun Cow), or to have had one eye, one arm and one leg. However, those Fomorians who have relationships with the Tuath Dé, such as <a href="/wiki/Elatha" title="Elatha">Elatha</a> and his son <a href="/wiki/Bres" title="Bres">Bres</a>, were portrayed as darkly beautiful.<sup id="cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mythlegendromance-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Fomorians are the enemies of Ireland's first settlers and of the supernatural Tuath Dé, with whom they are contrasted.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in some sources there is an overlap between the Fomorians and Tuath Dé. A figure called <a href="/wiki/Tethra" title="Tethra">Tethra</a> is named as presiding over both races.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The conflict between the Tuath Dé and Fomorians has been likened to other <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Indo-European myths</a> of a war between gods: <a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir%E2%80%93Vanir_War" title="Æsir–Vanir War">between Æsir and Vanir</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Titanomachy" title="Titanomachy">between Olympians and Titans</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, and between <a href="/wiki/Deva_(Hinduism)" title="Deva (Hinduism)">Devas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asura" title="Asura">Asuras</a> in <a href="/wiki/Historical_Vedic_religion" title="Historical Vedic religion">Vedic mythology</a>. <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1ith%C3%AD_%C3%93_h%C3%93g%C3%A1in" title="Dáithí Ó hÓgáin">Dáithí Ó hÓgáin</a> writes that the Tuath Dé gaining agricultural knowledge from the Fomorians is similar to the Norse and Vedic versions, where the defeated races represent the fertility of the soil.<sup id="cite_ref-ohogain312-315_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ohogain312-315-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Myths">Myths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Myths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Fomorians" title="Special:EditPage/Fomorians">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Partholon defeated Cíocal in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mag_Itha" title="Battle of Mag Itha">Battle of Mag Itha</a>, but all his people later died of plague.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Then came <a href="/wiki/Nemed" title="Nemed">Nemed</a> and his followers. Ireland is said to have been empty for thirty years following the death of Partholon's people, but Nemed and his followers encountered the Fomorians when they arrived. At this point, Céitinn reports another tradition that the Fomorians were seafarers from the Middle East, descended from <a href="/wiki/Ham_(son_of_Noah)" title="Ham (son of Noah)">Ham, son of Noah</a>. Nemed defeated them in several battles, killing their kings Gann and Sengann,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but two new Fomorian leaders arose: <a href="/wiki/Conand_(mythology)" title="Conand (mythology)">Conand</a> son of Faebar, who lived in Conand's Tower on <a href="/wiki/Tory_Island" title="Tory Island">Tory Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Donegal" title="County Donegal">County Donegal</a>, and Morc son of Dela (note that the first generation of the <a href="/wiki/Fir_Bolg" title="Fir Bolg">Fir Bolg</a> were also said to be sons of Dela). </p><p>After Nemed's death, Conand and Morc enslaved his people and demanded a heavy tribute: two thirds of their children, grain and cattle. Nemed's son <a href="/wiki/Fergus_(name)" title="Fergus (name)">Fergus Lethderg</a> gathered an army of sixty thousand, rose up against them and destroyed Conand's Tower, but Morc attacked them with a huge fleet, and there was great slaughter on both sides. The sea rose over them and drowned most of the survivors: only thirty of Nemed's people escaped in a single ship, scattering to the other parts of the world. The next invasion was by the <a href="/wiki/Fir_Bolg" title="Fir Bolg">Fir Bolg</a>, who did not encounter the Fomorians. </p><p>Next, the Tuatha Dé Danann, who are usually supposed to have been the <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">gods</a> of the Goidelic Irish, defeated the Fir Bolg in the first <a href="/wiki/Cath_Maige_Tuired" title="Cath Maige Tuired">Battle of Mag Tuired</a> and took possession of Ireland. Because their king, <a href="/wiki/Nuada_Airgetl%C3%A1m" title="Nuada Airgetlám">Nuada Airgetlám</a>, had lost an arm in the battle and was no longer physically whole, their first king in Ireland was the half-Fomorian <a href="/wiki/Bres" title="Bres">Bres</a>. He was the result of a union between <a href="/wiki/%C3%89riu" title="Ériu">Ériu</a> of the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorian prince Elatha, who had come to her one night by sea on a silver boat. Both Elatha and Bres are described as very beautiful. However Bres turned out to be a bad king who forced the Tuatha Dé to work as slaves and pay tribute to the Fomorians. He lost authority when he was satirised for neglecting his kingly duties of hospitality. Nuada was restored to the kingship after his arm was replaced with a working one of silver, but the Tuatha Dé's oppression by the Fomorians continued. </p><p>Bres fled to his father, Elatha, and asked for his help to restore him to the kingship. Elatha refused, on the grounds that he should not seek to gain by foul means what he couldn't keep by fair. Bres instead turned to <a href="/wiki/Balor" title="Balor">Balor</a>, a more warlike Fomorian chief living on Tory Island, and raised an army. </p><p>The Tuatha Dé Danann also prepared for war, under another half-Fomorian leader, <a href="/wiki/Lugh" title="Lugh">Lug</a>. His father was <a href="/wiki/Cian" title="Cian">Cian</a> of the Tuatha Dé, and his mother was Balor's daughter <a href="/wiki/Ethniu" title="Ethniu">Ethniu</a>. This is presented as a dynastic marriage in early texts, but folklore preserves a more elaborate story, reminiscent of the story of <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a> from <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>. Balor, who had been given a prophecy that he would be killed by his own grandson, locked Ethniu in a glass tower to keep her away from men. But when he stole Cian's magical cow, Cian got his revenge by gaining entry to the tower, with the help of a <a href="/wiki/Druid" title="Druid">druidess</a> called <a href="/wiki/Bir%C3%B3g" title="Biróg">Biróg</a>, and seducing her. She gave birth to triplets, which Balor ordered drowned. Two of the babies either died or turned into the first <a href="/wiki/Earless_seal" title="Earless seal">seals</a>, but Biróg saved one, Lug, and gave him to <a href="/wiki/Manann%C3%A1n_mac_Lir" title="Manannán mac Lir">Manannán</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tailtiu" title="Tailtiu">Tailtiu</a> to foster. As an adult, Lug gained entry to Nuada's court through his mastery of every art, and was given command over the army. </p><p>The second Battle of Mag Tuired was fought between the Fomorians under Balor and the Tuatha Dé under Lug. When the two forces met on the field of battle, it was said that to attack the fierce Fomorian flank was like striking a head against a cliff, placing a hand into a serpent's nest, or facing up to fire.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Balor killed Nuada with his terrible, poisonous eye that killed all it looked upon. Lug faced his grandfather, but as he was opening his eye Lug shot a <a href="/wiki/Sling_(weapon)" title="Sling (weapon)">sling-stone</a> that drove his eye out the back of his head, wreaking havoc on the Fomorian army behind. After Balor's death the Fomorians were defeated and driven into the sea. </p><p>According to the Irish version of the <i>Historia Britonum of Nennius</i>, the Fomorians are referred to as mariners who were forced into a tower near the sea by the <a href="/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Danann</a>. Then the Irish or otherwise descendants of <a href="/wiki/Nemed" title="Nemed">Nemed</a> with <a href="/wiki/Fergus_mac_R%C3%B3ich" title="Fergus mac Róich">Fergus red-side</a> at the lead, pushed all the Fomorians into the sea, with the exception of one ship that survived.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Training_of_Cú_Chulainn"><span id="The_Training_of_C.C3.BA_Chulainn"></span><i>The Training of Cú Chulainn</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Training of Cú Chulainn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Fomorians were still around at the time of <a href="/wiki/C%C3%BA_Chulainn" title="Cú Chulainn">Cú Chulainn</a>. In the medieval Irish tale entitled <i>The Training of Cú Chulainn</i>, preserved as a copy by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Tipper" title="Richard Tipper">Richard Tipper</a> in British Library, Egerton MS 106, it gives the following mention: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Then they parted from each other, and Cúchulainn went and looked forth on the great sea. As he was there he beheld a great assembly on the strand nearest to him, to wit, a hundred men and a hundred women seated in the bosom of the haven and the shore, and among them a maiden shapely, dear and beautiful, the most distinguished damsel of the world's women, and they a-weeping and lamenting around the damsel. Cúchulainn came to the place and saluted them. "What is this sorrow or the misery upon you?" says Cúchulainn. The damsel answered and this she said: "A royal tribute which the tribe of Fomorians carry out of this country every seventh year, namely, the first-born of the king's children. And at this time it has come to me to go as that tribute, for to the king I am the dearest of his children.""What number comes to lift that tribute?" asks Cúchulainn. "Three sons of Alatrom of the Fomorians," she answers, "and Dub, Mell and Dubros are their names." Not long had they been at those talks when they saw the well-manned, full-great vessel approaching them over the furious waves of the sea. And when the damsel's people saw the ship coming, they all fled from her, and not a single person remained in her company save only Cúchulainn. And thus was that vessel: a single warrior, dark, gloomy, devilish, on the stern of that good ship, and he was laughing roughly, ill-fatedly, so that every one saw his entrails and his bowels through the body of his gullet. "What is that mirthfulness on the big man?" asks Cúchulainn. "Because," says the damsel, "he deems it excellent that thou shouldst be an addition to his tribute in this year rather than in any other year." "By my conscience," says Cúchulainn, "it would not be right for him to brag thus regarding me if he knew what would come of it." Then the big man came ashore to them into the strand, and stretched forth his long, sinewy, hideous arm to seize Cúchulainn in the very front of his royal tribute. Straightway Cúchulainn raised his right hand, and bared his sword, and gave a blow to the big man and struck off his head, so that he was the first that fell by Cúchulainn after having completed his training. And thereafter the other two fell by him, and he left them thus, neck to neck.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In later times, any settled pirates or seaborne raiders were labelled Fomorians and the original meaning of the word was forgotten.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Fomorians">List of Fomorians</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: List of Fomorians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Indech, King of the Fomorians<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balor" title="Balor">Balor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bres" title="Bres">Bres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cethlenn" title="Cethlenn">Cethlenn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cichol_Gricenchos" title="Cichol Gricenchos">Cichol Gricenchos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conand_(mythology)" title="Conand (mythology)">Conand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elatha" title="Elatha">Elatha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethniu" title="Ethniu">Ethniu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethra" title="Tethra">Tethra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manann%C3%A1n" class="mw-redirect" title="Manannán">Manannán</a> under his byname the <i>Gilla Decair</i><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Tuiri Tortbuillech</li> <li>Goll</li> <li>Irgoll</li> <li>Loscenn-lomm</li> <li>Octriallach, son of Indech</li> <li>Omna and Bagna</li> <li>Regan<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Genealogy">Genealogy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Genealogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library,_MS_Rawlinson_B_502" title="Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502">Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502</a> lists the full genealogy of the Fomorians going back to the Biblical <a href="/wiki/Noah" title="Noah">Noah</a>, who was 10th from <a href="/wiki/Adam" title="Adam">Adam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eve" title="Eve">Eve</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rawlinson B 502, Section 26, page 330,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> says: </p> <blockquote><p><a href="/wiki/Bres" title="Bres">Bress</a> m. <a href="/wiki/Elatha" title="Elatha">Elathan</a> m. Delbáeth m. Deirgthind m. Ochtaich m. Sithchind m. Molaich m. Lárgluind m. Ciarraill m. Fóesaim m. Meircill m. Leccduib m. Iachtaich m. Libuirnn m. Lathairn m. Soairtt m. Sibuirt m. Siuccat m. Stairnn m. Saltait m. Cair m. h-Iphit m. Philist m. Fuith m. <a href="/wiki/Ham_(son_of_Noah)" title="Ham (son of Noah)">Caim</a> m. <a href="/wiki/Noah" title="Noah">Nóe</a> m. <a href="/wiki/Lamech_(father_of_Noah)" title="Lamech (father of Noah)">Laméch</a></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Note that there were also two Fir Bolg kings called <a href="/wiki/Gann_mac_Dela" title="Gann mac Dela">Gann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sengann_mac_Dela" title="Sengann mac Dela">Sengann</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-mythlegendromance-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-mythlegendromance_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFÓ_hÓgáin1991">Ó hÓgáin 1991</a>, pp. 232–233</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Carey-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Carey_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carey_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carey_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carey_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carey_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarey2006">Carey 2006</a>, p. 762</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ohogain312-315-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ohogain312-315_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ohogain312-315_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFÓ_hÓgáin1991">Ó hÓgáin 1991</a>, pp. 312–315</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-macculloch-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-macculloch_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacCulloch2009">MacCulloch 2009</a>, pp. 80, 89, 91</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-smyth-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-smyth_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmyth1996">Smyth 1996</a>, p. 74</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sjoestedt-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sjoestedt_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sjoestedt_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSjoestedt1949">Sjoestedt 1949</a>, pp. 4–5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHistoria_Britonum1847">Historia Britonum 1847</a>, Historia 8: "Of the Conquest of Eri as Recorded by Nennius"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRhys1888">Rhys 1888</a>, p. 591</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/w/index.php?title=O%27Mulconry%27s_Glossary&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="O'Mulconry's Glossary (page does not exist)">O'Mulconry's Glossary</a> in Dublin, TCD MS 1317, p. 42b, has "Fomoir .i. fo mhuir ut alii putant, ł a fomo fl{?}o ambiae fl{?}i acain a quo nominatunt{?}." <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/texts.php?versionID=12&ref=109#109">Early Irish Glossaries Database</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStokes1891">Stokes 1891</a>, p. 128</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThurneysen1921">Thurneysen 1921</a>, p. 64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">English version of ‘<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/6941025/LAS_INSCRIPCIONES_DEL_SUROESTE_Y_EL_TARTESO_DE_LA_ARQUEOLOG%C3%8DA_Y_DE_LA_HISTORIA">Las inscripciones del suroeste y el Tarteso de la arqueología y de la historia</a>’, Juan M. Campos y Jaime Alvar (editores), Tarteso. El emporio del metal (Córdoba, Editorial Almuzara, 2013), 552.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacalister1940">Macalister 1940</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFde_Bernardo_StempelEsserSlocum" class="citation web cs1">de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia; Esser, Caren; Slocum, Jonathan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/iriol/90">"Old Irish Online: Lesson 9"</a>. 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Translated by Hayes O'Grady, Standish. 1892.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Pursuit+of+the+Gilla+Decair+and+His+Horse&rft.date=1892&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcelt.ucc.ie%2F%2Fpublished%2FT303025%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGwynn1924">Gwynn 1924</a>, pp. 252–253</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStokes1895">Stokes 1895</a>, pp. 162–163</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFO'Brien1962">O'Brien 1962</a>, pp. 330–333, Section 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFO'Brien1962">O'Brien 1962</a>, p. 330, Section 26</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarey2006" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Carey_(Celticist)" title="John Carey (Celticist)">Carey, John</a> (2006). 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Translated by Dillon, Miles. <a href="/wiki/Methuen_Publishing" title="Methuen Publishing">Methuen</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1053150">1053150</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gods+and+Heroes+of+the+Celts&rft.pub=Methuen&rft.date=1949&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1053150&rft.aulast=Sjoestedt&rft.aufirst=Marie-Louise&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmyth1996" class="citation book cs1">Smyth, Daragh (1996). <i>A Guide to Irish Mythology</i> (2nd ed.). <a href="/wiki/Irish_Academic_Press" title="Irish Academic Press">Irish Academic Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780716526124" title="Special:BookSources/9780716526124"><bdi>9780716526124</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/36338076">36338076</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Guide+to+Irish+Mythology&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Irish+Academic+Press&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F36338076&rft.isbn=9780716526124&rft.aulast=Smyth&rft.aufirst=Daragh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStokes1891" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Whitley_Stokes_(scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitley Stokes (scholar)">Stokes, Whitley</a> (1891). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/revueceltiqu12pari">"The Second Battle of Moytura"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Revue_Celtique" class="mw-redirect" title="Revue Celtique">Revue Celtique</a></i>. <b>12</b>: 52–130, 306–08.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revue+Celtique&rft.atitle=The+Second+Battle+of+Moytura&rft.volume=12&rft.pages=52-130%2C+306-08&rft.date=1891&rft.aulast=Stokes&rft.aufirst=Whitley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frevueceltiqu12pari&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStokes1895" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Whitley_Stokes_(scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitley Stokes (scholar)">Stokes, Whitley</a> (1895). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/revueceltique16pari">"The Prose Tales in the Rennes <i>Dindsenchas</i>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Revue_Celtique" class="mw-redirect" title="Revue Celtique">Revue Celtique</a></i>. <b>16</b>: 31–83, 135–167, 269–312.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revue+Celtique&rft.atitle=The+Prose+Tales+in+the+Rennes+Dindsenchas&rft.volume=16&rft.pages=31-83%2C+135-167%2C+269-312&rft.date=1895&rft.aulast=Stokes&rft.aufirst=Whitley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frevueceltique16pari&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStokes1908" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Whitley_Stokes_(scholar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitley Stokes (scholar)">Stokes, Whitley</a> (1908). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/revueceltiqu29pari">"The Training of Cúchulainn"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Revue_Celtique" class="mw-redirect" title="Revue Celtique">Revue Celtique</a></i>. <b>29</b>: 109–47.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revue+Celtique&rft.atitle=The+Training+of+C%C3%BAchulainn&rft.volume=29&rft.pages=109-47&rft.date=1908&rft.aulast=Stokes&rft.aufirst=Whitley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frevueceltiqu29pari&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThurneysen1921" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Thurneysen" title="Rudolf Thurneysen">Thurneysen, Rudolf</a> (1921). <i>Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert</i> [<i>The Irish Heroic and Royal Saga up to the Seventeenth Century</i>] (in German). Niemeyer. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/246313910">246313910</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Die+irische+Helden-+und+K%C3%B6nigsage+bis+zum+siebzehnten+Jahrhundert&rft.pub=Niemeyer&rft.date=1921&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F246313910&rft.aulast=Thurneysen&rft.aufirst=Rudolf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fomorians&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarey1995" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Carey_(Celticist)" title="John Carey (Celticist)">Carey, John</a> (1995). "Native Elements in Irish Pseudohistory". In Edel, Doris R. (ed.). <i>Cultural Identity and Cultural Integration: Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages</i>. <a href="/wiki/Four_Courts_Press" title="Four Courts Press">Four Courts Press</a>. pp. 45–60. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781851821679" title="Special:BookSources/9781851821679"><bdi>9781851821679</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/34209645">34209645</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Native+Elements+in+Irish+Pseudohistory&rft.btitle=Cultural+Identity+and+Cultural+Integration%3A+Ireland+and+Europe+in+the+Early+Middle+Ages&rft.pages=45-60&rft.pub=Four+Courts+Press&rft.date=1995&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F34209645&rft.isbn=9781851821679&rft.aulast=Carey&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGray1982" class="citation journal cs1">Gray, Elizabeth A. (1982). "<i>Cath Maige Tuired</i>: Myth and structure (24–120)". <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%89igse" title="Éigse">Éigse</a></i>. <b>19</b>: 1–35. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0013-2608">0013-2608</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%C3%89igse&rft.atitle=Cath+Maige+Tuired%3A+Myth+and+structure+%2824%E2%80%93120%29&rft.volume=19&rft.pages=1-35&rft.date=1982&rft.issn=0013-2608&rft.aulast=Gray&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGray1982" class="citation journal cs1">Gray, Elizabeth A. (1982). "<i>Cath Maige Tuired</i>: Myth and structure (84–93, 120–167)". <i><a href="/wiki/%C3%89igse" title="Éigse">Éigse</a></i>. <b>19</b>: 230–262. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0013-2608">0013-2608</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%C3%89igse&rft.atitle=Cath+Maige+Tuired%3A+Myth+and+structure+%2884%E2%80%9393%2C+120%E2%80%93167%29&rft.volume=19&rft.pages=230-262&rft.date=1982&rft.issn=0013-2608&rft.aulast=Gray&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFomorians" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Rahilly2010" class="citation book cs1">O'Rahilly, Thomas Francis (2010) [1946]. <i>Early Irish History and Mythology</i>. 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title="Aengus">Aengus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anu_(Irish_goddess)" title="Anu (Irish goddess)">Anu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Danu_(Irish_goddess)" title="Danu (Irish goddess)">Danu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Danand" title="Danand">Danand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81ine" title="Áine">Áine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A1n%C3%A1nach" title="Bánánach">Bánánach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9_Chuille" title="Bé Chuille">Bé Chuille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9%E1%B8%83inn" title="Béḃinn">Béḃinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boann" title="Boann">Boann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodb_Derg" title="Bodb Derg">Bodb Derg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bres" title="Bres">Bres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_(mythology)" title="Brian (mythology)">Brian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigid" title="Brigid">Brigid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cermait" title="Cermait">Cermait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cian" title="Cian">Cian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cl%C3%ADodhna" title="Clíodhna">Clídna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dagda" title="The Dagda">Dagda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delb%C3%A1eth" title="Delbáeth">Delbáeth</a>-<a href="/wiki/Tuireann" title="Tuireann">Tuirenn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dian_Cecht" title="Dian Cecht">Dian Cecht</a>-<a href="/wiki/Miach" title="Miach">Miach</a>-<a href="/wiki/Airmed" title="Airmed">Airmed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecne" title="Ecne">Ecne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernmas" title="Ernmas">Ernmas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn" title="Étaín">Étaín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89riu" title="Ériu">Ériu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Banba" title="Banba">Banba</a>-<a href="/wiki/F%C3%B3dla" title="Fódla">Fódla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiacha_mac_Delba%C3%ADth" title="Fiacha mac Delbaíth">Fiacha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flidais" title="Flidais">Flidais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuamnach" title="Fuamnach">Fuamnach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9n" title="Lén">Lén</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lir" title="Lir">Lir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugh" title="Lugh">Lug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mac_Gr%C3%A9ine" title="Mac Gréine">Mac Gréine</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mac_Cuill" title="Mac Cuill">Mac Cuill</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mac_Cecht" title="Mac Cecht">Mac Cecht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macha" title="Macha">Macha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manann%C3%A1n_mac_Lir" title="Manannán mac Lir">Manannán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midir" title="Midir">Midir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Morr%C3%ADgan" title="The Morrígan">Morrígan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Badb" title="Badb">Badb</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nemain" title="Nemain">Nemain</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neit" title="Neit">Neit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuada_Airgetl%C3%A1m" title="Nuada Airgetlám">Nuada</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nechtan_(mythology)" title="Nechtan (mythology)">Nechtan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elcmar" title="Elcmar">Elcmar</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogma" title="Ogma">Ogma</a></li> <li>Trí Dé Dána (<a 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Cennfinnán">Fiacha Cennfinnán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fodbgen" title="Fodbgen">Fodbgen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gann_mac_Dela" title="Gann mac Dela">Gann</a>-<a href="/wiki/Genann" title="Genann">Genann</a>-<a href="/wiki/Sengann_mac_Dela" title="Sengann mac Dela">Sengann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rinnal" title="Rinnal">Rinnal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudraige_mac_Dela" title="Rudraige mac Dela">Rudraige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_mac_Dela" title="Sláine mac Dela">Sláine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sreng" title="Sreng">Sreng</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#c1e6c1;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Milesians_(Irish)" title="Milesians (Irish)">Milesians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amergin_Gl%C3%BAingel" title="Amergin Glúingel">Amergin Glúingel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breog%C3%A1n" 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