Amairgen

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Of this we have a remarkable instance in the case of Amairgen, seer and judge of the Milesians or Sons of Mil, in the story of their conquest of Ireland, as told in the Book of LeinsteTy fo (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "Of this we have a remarkable instance in the case of Amairgen, seer and judge of the Milesians or Sons of Mil, in the story of their conquest of Ireland, as told in the Book of LeinsteTy fo."

• attribution: The boasts of Amairgen are characterized by M (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "The boasts of Amairgen are characterized by M. d'Arbois de Jubainville as a sort of pantheism, and he detects traces of the same doctrine, among other places, in the teaching of the Irishman, known as Scotus Erigena, at the court of Charles the Bald in the ninth century: see the Cyc/e mythologique, p. 248."

• attestation: In any case, one is prepared by such utterances as those of Amairgen to understand the charge recorded in the Setichus Mor, i (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "In any case, one is prepared by such utterances as those of Amairgen to understand the charge recorded in the Setichus Mor, i. 23, as made against the Irish druids or magicians of his time by a certain Connia Cainbhrethach, one of the remarkable judges of Erin, conjectured by O'Curty— on what grounds I do not know— to have lived in the first century of our era."