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274: 318:. In "Balor on Tory Island" and its variant, the child is called Lui Lavada (Lui Longhand), and is recognized as an equivalent of Lugh. In the very similar Irish text "Balor agus Mac Cionnfhaolaidh", the child is Lugh FadlĂĄmhach, i.e., "Lugh the long-armed". In another variant, the child is called Dul Dauna, which has been explained as a corruption of 471:
subscribed to this notion. He suggests that the myth and others like it could be metaphors for yearly cycles of growth, death, and re-growth. Krappe hypothesized that the myth is of ancient origin, with Balor representing winter and the old year, confining the woman who represents the fertile earth.
311:, enters the tower, finds Ethnea and impregnates her. When she gives birth to three sons, Balor orders the three to be drowned, but one survives without Balor's knowledge. The grandson is fostered by the smith who is his uncle Balor eventually encounters his grandson by chance and is killed by him. 369:
began to wither, with the second the grass became copper-coloured, with the third the woods and timber began to heat, with the fourth smoke came from the trees, with the fifth everything grew red, with the sixth it sparked. With the seventh, they were all set on fire, and the whole countryside was
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It may be that this forehead eye should be interpreted as an "extra eye in the middle of his forehead" (one of three) as Scowcroft puts it, otherwise Balor would be rendered blind most of the time. But Scowcroft does not specify the work to which he is alluding. Balor is explicitly three-eyed in a
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Krappe footnotes thus (p. 4 n15): "But Slavonic folk-lore knows of a similar monster, called Vy by the Servians. He 'lies on an iron couch.. and sends for 'twelve mighty heroes', and order them to take iron forks and lift up the hair about his eyes". But he erroneously made this an attestation of
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Krappe lists six elements that are found in other myths: the prophecy of being slain by his own descendant; the precaution of locking the daughter in a tower; the seduction of the daughter by a stranger, who needs to use magic to gain access; the birth of a boy and the attempt to drown him; the
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has been noted by several commentators, but for different reasons. Each is a giant whose eyelid takes several men to lift (using a ring handle vs. lifting with forks); each has a spear cast at him and loses an eye; and each is unwilling to give away his daughter to the bridal-quester.
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before he had a chance to use his destructive eye. Balor's eye wreaked destruction when opened, unleashing some "power of poison", but it took the strength of four warriors to lift the eyelid, by grabbing the ring (handle) attached to it. Lugh shot a
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The weapon used against Balor by his grandson may be a red-hot heated iron rod, or a special red spear crafted by the smith Gaivnin Gow, the latter being of special interest to A. C. L. Brown who tries to establish connection to Arthurian lore.
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interprets Balor as personifying the harmful aspects of the sun, such as the scorching sun that would bring crop failure and drought. He speculates that the imagery of Balor is a conflation of a Bronze Age Celtic sun god with the Greek
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In "Balor on Tory Island" and the Irish text close to it, Lui Lavada (or Lugh) sets Balor's head on a rock, and a lake forms from the dripping pool of liquid. The Irish text does not specify location, but Curtin's tale in English names
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In O'Donovan's version of the folktale above, Balor has one eye in the middle of the forehead, and a deadly eye on the back of his head. It is described as both venomous, and issuing some sort of petrifying beam with powers like unto a
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Though not stated outright, the supposition is that Balor here is a "one-eyed giant". In one account of the battle, Lugh also killed a Fomorian leader named Goll (meaning "one-eyed"), who may be a duplication of Balor. The
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In "Balor on Tory Island", Balor covers the eye in the middle of his forehead with nine leather shields, but Lugh (Lui Lavada "the Longhand") sends a red spear crafted by Gavidin Gow through all the layers.
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Laoide's Irish text and Curtin's "Balor on Tory Island" have the same name for the protagonist Fionn Mac Cionnfhaolaidh vs. Fin the son of Ceanfaeligh (Kinealy), and the plot-lines are similar throughout.
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Although the Tory Island version of the folktale printed by O'Donovan was influential, this may have misled the public with the impression that "Tory has almost a monopoly of Balor traditions", so argues
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his father's druids were brewing. O'Curry tantalizingly stated he was in possession of a manuscript with an alternate explanation on how Balor got his power, but does not elaborate due to lack of space.
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The placing of Balor's stronghold on Tory Island derives from the medieval literature, which places the Fomorians' stronghold there. On Tory Island there are geological features called
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Some have interpreted Balor as symbolizing a solar deity of the old year, struggling with the solar god of the new year, namely Lugh. Folklorist
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Another description of Balor's death, dating from at least the 12th century, says he survived the loss of his eye and was chased by Lugh to
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Math vab Mathonwy: an inquiry into the origins and development of the fourth branch of the Mabinogi with the text and a translation
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Parallels have also been noted in the etymologies and mythic structures between Lugh's slaying of Balor and Loki's slaying of
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Variant: Kian son of Contje, though he is not the owner of the cow in that version, nor related to the smith who owns it.
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Sims-Williams, p. 138 n24: "Krappe seems to go further than Ralston in conflating the Russian and Serbian material".
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mac CĂĄinte) MacKineely/Cian learns he can only get the cow back when Balor is dead, and with the help of his female
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Buar-ainech means "cow-faced" according to Arbois de Jubainville, who encourages comparison with the Celtic deity
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c. 1900, and that these versions connected Balor and the cow Glasgaivlen with places as far afield as "south
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In folklore collected during the 19th century, Balor is a warrior or tyrant who is generally said to live on
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argued that the name "Bellerophon" means "slayer of Belleros" and that this is another name for the
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believe that Lugh's slaying of Balor was originally a harvest myth associated with the festival of
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fostering of the boy, and the fulfillment of the prophecy by the boy killing his grandparent.
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However, de Jubainville (and others) also seized on another comparison: between Balor and
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O'Laverty also ventured that the name "Balor" may be linked to the name of the Greek hero
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Thusin Laoide's Irish version, Lugh FadlĂĄmhach's spear pierces seven coverings (Irish:
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In the ensuing battle, the second Battle of Mag Tuired, Balor kills the Tuath DĂ© king
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says that Balor's eye gained its baleful power from exposure to the fumes from the
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Brown, Arthur C. L. (August 1924), "The Grail and the English Sir Perceval. V",
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Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters
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Balor is frequently legendized as living on Tory Island, but not necessarily.
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Myth, Legend & Romance: An encyclopaedia of the Irish folk tradition
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Tor MĂłr on Tory Island, the setting of some versions of Balor's folktale
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Serbian lore, when in fact Ralston was paraphrasing from the Russian
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ed. tr. LGE ¶312, 118–121; ¶331–332, pp. 148–151; ¶364, pp. 180–181
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Since the mid-19th century, Balor has been likened to figures from
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with additional etymological parallels noted between the theonyms
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Balor with the Evil Eye. Studies in Celtic and French Literature
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A later version of this list, in verse and prose, was made by
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The Mythological Cycle tells of a struggle between the divine
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The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland
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Krappe drew parallel between Balor with the supposed Serbian
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Balor first appears in the medieval texts that make up the
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Or alternatively, a "tear" from the object he dropped.
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Another piece of lore localized in southern Ulster (
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Loch (in County Donegal, local to the storyteller).
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The unnamed grandson in the tale is recognizable as
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Ogygia, or, A chronological account of Irish events
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Index

Balor (disambiguation)
Irish mythology
Fomorians
Battle of Mag Tuired
Lugh
Tuatha DĂ© Danann
Ysbaddaden
Cyclops
Common Celtic
Mythological Cycle
NĂ©it
Cath Maige Tuired
rath
Book of Leinster
Cethlenn
O'Flaherty
1685
Lebor Gabála Érenn
Tuatha DĂ© Danann
Bres
Hebrides
Nuada AirgetlĂĄm
Lugh
sling
Old Irish
magic potion
Mizen Head
cairn
Cian
Glas Gaibhnenn

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