Dian Cecht and Nuada's Silver Arm
Oct 22, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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Episode description
Dian Cecht receives Ogma’s message and sets out to find a way of fighting back against Bres’s tyranny. He recruits the blacksmith Gobniu and the silversmith Credne to help him create a new arm for the former High Chief of the Gods, Nuada.
- What was Dian Cecht's role in myth and in the old pagan religion?
- What is Dian Cecht’s relationship to Brehon Law?
- What makes Dian Cecht a symbol of the medical profession?
- Why were Blacksmiths considered to have supernatural powers?
- How do we resolve contradictions in medieval mythological texts?
credits
Written, presented and produced by Marcas Ó hUiscín and Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh.
Music - Celtic Warrior by Damiano Baldoni (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 public licence
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All sounds cc licence from freesound.org
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