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Danann is generally believed to be the genitive of a female name, for which the nominative case is not attested. It has been reconstructed as Danu, of which Anu (genitive Anann) may be an alternative form. Anu is called "mother of the Irish gods" by Cormac mac Cuilennáin. The [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] then fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Fomorians. Nuada was killed by the Fomorian king Balor's poisonous eye, but Balor was killed himself by Lugh, the champion of the Tuatha Dé, who then took over as king. | Danann is generally believed to be the genitive of a female name, for which the nominative case is not attested. It has been reconstructed as Danu, of which Anu (genitive Anann) may be an alternative form. Anu is called "mother of the Irish gods" by Cormac mac Cuilennáin. The [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] then fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh against the Fomorians. Nuada was killed by the Fomorian king Balor's poisonous eye, but Balor was killed himself by Lugh, the champion of the Tuatha Dé, who then took over as king. | ||
A third battle was fought against a subsequent wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (present day Galicia and Northern Portugal), descendants of Míl Espáine (who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts). The Milesians encountered three goddesses of the Tuatha Dé Danann, [[Ériu]], Banba and Fodla, who asked that the island be named after them; Ériu is the origin of the modern name [[Éire]], and Banba and Fodla are still sometimes used as poetic names for [[Ireland]].<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann]</ref> | A third battle was fought against a subsequent wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (present day Galicia and Northern Portugal), descendants of Míl Espáine (who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts). The Milesians encountered three goddesses of the Tuatha Dé Danann, [[Eriu|Ériu]], Banba and Fodla, who asked that the island be named after them; Ériu is the origin of the modern name [[Éire]], and Banba and Fodla are still sometimes used as poetic names for [[Ireland]].<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann]</ref> | ||