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22: 223: 395: 106:(who he says was his father's brother), and woke up one day to find himself reborn as a vigorous young stag. The ancient stag watched the Nemedians perish, and was again reborn into a young wild boar, and became the king of the boar-herds, witnessing the taking of Ireland by Semion, leader of the Fir Bolg. Then he became a great hawk (or eagle) and saw Ireland seized by the Tuatha Dé Danann and the 110:. Later reincarnated into a salmon, he was caught by a fisherman serving a chieftain called Cairill, and was eaten whole by the Cairill's wife, and passed into her womb to be reborn as 399: 87:
Tuan who was a hermit or recluse, told St. Finnan that he was born 2000 years earlier and witnessed many of the waves of invaders who came to ancient Ireland - the
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As the lone human guarding the land, he grew hairy, clawed and gray. And he witnessed the invasion of
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Carey, John; Koch, John T. (1995), "Scél Tuáin meic Chairill The Story of Tuán Son of Cairell",
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Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales
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told a brief history of himself and of Ireland from his people onward to the coming of
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was a recluse who retains his memories from his previous incarnations, going back to
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The Voyage of Bran to the Land of the Living : an Old Irish Saga
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Arbois de Jubainville, Marie Henri de; Best, Richard Irvine (1903),
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His legend is found in an 11th century manuscript called
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Index


Nemed
Irish mythology
Antediluvian
Partholon
Christian
St. Finnian of Moville
St. Patrick
Lebor na hUidre
Bodleian Library
Trinity College, Dublin
Nemedians
Fir Bolg
Tuatha De Dannan
Nemed
Milesians
St. Patrick
Colum Cille
Lebor Gabála Érenn
Fintan mac Bóchra
Meyer 1897
Arbois de Jubainville & Best 1903
Meyer 1897
Arbois de Jubainville & Best 1903
Meyer 1897
Meyer 1897
Meyer 1897
Irish
Irish
Meyer 1897

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