Goibniu

Also known as: Goibniu the Smith · Family: Tuatha de Danaan · Role: smith · First appears: The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 2

Goibniu, the Smith, was the son of Tuirbe and one of three brothers living together at Druim na Teine, with Samthainn and Cian. At Grellach Dollaid, he and Lugh secretly planned for a full year with others to rise against the Fomor, waiting until their strength was ready.

At the battle of Magh Tuireadh, Ruadan wounded Goibniu with a spear, but Goibniu pulled it out and threw it back, killing him. Goibniu was healed in the well; while making spear-heads for the battle, he also sang spells over a spear-shaft so that anyone struck by it would burn like fire.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lugh and Goibniu secretly planned with others to rise against the Fomor.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 2 · 📍 Grellach Dollaid)
  • With: Lugh
  • “A full year they stopped there, making their plans together in secret, the way the Fomor would not know they were going to rise against them till such time as all would be ready, and till they would know what their strength was.”
• Ruadan attacked Goibniu with a spear, but Goibniu threw it back and killed him.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2)
  • With: Ruadan
  • “And after the spear being given to Ruadan, he turned and threw it at Goibniu, that it wounded him. But Goibniu pulled it out and made a cast of it at Ruadan, that it went through him and he died; and Bres, his father, and the army of the Fomor, saw him die.”
• Goibniu was healed in the well.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2 · 📍 the well)
  • “And as to Goibniu, he went into the well and was healed.”
• Goibniu enchanted a spear-shaft so that anyone struck by it would burn like fire.(The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2)
  • “And it is what he did, there was a spear-shaft in his hand when he heard the story, Nes its name was; and he sang spells over the spear-shaft, and any one that was struck with that spear afterwards, it would burn him up like fire.”

The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Coming of Lugh · Part 2

• siblings with Samthainn “Now it chanced at that time there were three brothers of the Tuatha de Danaan living together in a place that was called Druim na Teine, the Ridge of the Fire, Goibniu and Samthainn and Cian.”
• siblings with Cian “Now it chanced at that time there were three brothers of the Tuatha de Danaan living together in a place that was called Druim na Teine, the Ridge of the Fire, Goibniu and Samthainn and Cian.”

The Gods · Lugh of the Long Hand · The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh · Part 2

• enemies with Ruadan “And after the spear being given to Ruadan, he turned and threw it at Goibniu, that it wounded him. But Goibniu pulled it out and made a cast of it at Ruadan, that it went through him and he died; and Bres, his father, and the army of the Fomor, saw him die.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · The Dagda

• parent: Tuirbe “But Tuirbe, father of Goibniu the Smith, used to throw better again, for he would make a cast of his axe from Tulach na Bela, the Hill of the Axe, in the face of the flood tide, and he would put his order on the sea, and it would not come over the axe.”

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