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Setanta

Setanta — being in celtic tradition.

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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • relationship: That night she had a dream, in which a man informed her that she was pregnant, that it was he who was in her womb, that he had been her foster-son, and that he was Lug; also that when his birth should (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

    "That night she had a dream, in which a man informed her that she was pregnant, that it was he who was in her womb, that he had been her foster-son, and that he was Lug; also that when his birth should take place, the name was to be Setanta, After an incident which I can only regard as a clumsy attempt to combine the more primitive legend with tlie story which makes him son of Sualdaim, she gives birth to the boy, and he is duly called Setanta''': that was Ciichulainn's first name."