Uaithne

Role: harp · First appears: Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 1

When Boand gave birth to Uaithne’s three sons, they were named Suan-traide, Gen-traide, and Gol-traide. The tale says the names came from the music played by Uaithne, the Dagda’s harp. Boand accepted the three as Uaithne’s sons, naming Suan-traide, Gen-traide, and Gol-traide.

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Life events

• Boand gave birth to Uaithne’s three sons, whose names were Suan-traide, Gen-traide, and Gol-traide.(Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 1)
  • With: Boand Suan-traide Gen-traide Gol-traide
  • “Boand awoke afterwards out of the sleep. “I accept,” she says, “thy three sons O Uaithne of full ardour, since there is Suan-traide and Gen-traide, and Gol-traide”

Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 1

• parent: the Dagda “It is from the music which Uaithne, the Dagda's harp, played that the three are named.”
• child: Suan-traide “I accept,” she says, “thy three sons O Uaithne of full ardour, since there is Suan-traide and Gen-traide, and Gol-traide on cows and women who shall fall by Medb and Ailill, men who shall perish by the hearing of art from them.”
• child: Gen-traide “I accept,” she says, “thy three sons O Uaithne of full ardour, since there is Suan-traide and Gen-traide, and Gol-traide on cows and women who shall fall by Medb and Ailill, men who shall perish by the hearing of art from them.”
• child: Gol-traide “I accept,” she says, “thy three sons O Uaithne of full ardour, since there is Suan-traide and Gen-traide, and Gol-traide on cows and women who shall fall by Medb and Ailill, men who shall perish by the hearing of art from them.”

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Extracted from the original text of Heroic Romances of Ireland. Made with Rho MD.