Tuatha de Dannan - "peoples of the goddess Danu", they are the fifth group to settle Ireland. They were the mysterious god-like people of ancient Ireland, and were the race most closely connected with the ancient megalithic sites of Ireland such as Brú na Bóinne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_mythology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann Tuatha Dé Danann, who are usually supposed to have been the gods of the Goidelic [Gaels] Irish. The Tuatha Dé Danann were descended from Nemed, leader of a previous wave of inhabitants of Ireland. They came from four northern cities, Falias, Gorias, Murias and Finias [the islands in the west/North], where they acquired their occult skills and attributes. They arrived in Ireland, on or about May 1 (Beltaine), on dark clouds, although later versions rationalise this by saying they burned their ships to prevent retreat, and the "clouds" were the smoke produced. Led by their king, Nuada, they fought the First Battle of Magh Tuiredh (Moytura), on the west coast, in which they defeated and displaced the clumsy and ill-armed Fir Bolg, who then inhabited Ireland. The King of the Tuatha Dé, Nuada, sued for half the island for his people, but the Fir Bolg king refused. At the ensuing Battle of Mag Tuired [Co. Leitrim] the Fir Bolg were all but conquered and their king slain by the goddess Morrigu, though the fierce efforts of their champion Sreng saved them from utter loss, and the Tuatha Dé were so touched by their nobility and spirit they gave them one quarter of the island as their own. They chose Connacht. The Tuatha Dé Danann then fought the Second Battle of Magh Tuiredh [in Co. Roscommon] against the Fomorians.he Fomorians were defeated and driven into the sea. The Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians are closely related. Neit, a war god, is an ancestor of both. The word fomóire is believed to derive from Old Irish fo muire (Modern Irish faoi muire), "under the sea". 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. Their three husbands, Mac Cuill, Mac Cecht and Mac Gréine, who were kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann at that time, asked for a truce of three days, during which the Milesians would lie at anchor nine waves' distance from the shore. The Milesians complied, but the Tuatha Dé Danann summoned the Druids who created a magical storm in an attempt to drive them away. The Milesian poet Amergin calmed the sea with his verse, before his people landed and defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann at Tailtiu. When Amergin was called upon to divide the land between the Tuatha Dé Danann and his own people, he cleverly allotted the portion above ground to the Milesians and the portion underground to the Tuatha Dé Danann. The Tuatha Dé Danann were led underground into the Sidhe mounds by The Dagda. As they were a magical people they decided to go underground into another dimension of space and time the entrances to which are at many sites around Ireland; one of the most famous being Brugh na Boinne (Newgrange). It was reputed that only iron weapons could injure them. The Milesians descended from Goídel Glas [Israelite], a Scythian who was present at the fall of the Tower of Babel, and Scota [Judahite], a daughter of a pharaoh of Egypt. Two branches of their descendants left Egypt and Scythia at the time of the Exodus of Moses, and after a period of wandering the shores of the Mediterranean arrived in the Iberian Peninsula, where they settled after several battles. The Milesians were the final inhabitants of Ireland, and were believed to represent the Goidelic (or Gaelic) Celts.

Best windir song, taken from the arntor cd Want this song in better quality? Then buy the album "Arntor" Lyrics: Svartesmien budde pao Bjeddla i Saogndal. Da va dai daga dao ra draiv trådl i adle grende, or haug å hamra, adle staa i frao, å gjore jabnast ubya. Some hadde tihelde aolmannavegen å skremde live ao farande fålk itte aodaga; da felaste ao dissa va Lundemyrstrodle so hildt seg pao Londamyri midt i tjokkaste bøgdi. Svartesmien aotte ait trållsverd, Flusi nabne va. So hende da ain laurdagskveld at han etla seg pao utfer. Han stelde seg, stakk Flusi i slirao, tok ni bakkadn å følde vegen haim onde londadn dar han hadde myri framføre seg. Ho skjain å blainkte i maonaskjine. Å no saog han Londamyrstrådle so laog å sov, styggjele stort å hadde braitt seg midt ut yve myri. Men dao rann sinne i svartesmien, aotte han makt å sverd, so fekk han no råyna daim bi gjera ende pao uvite. Darme raiv han Flusi å rik staole rett i bringao pao ra. Dao vakna fodla trådle å skvatt opp, da vrai seg onde styngjen å fraista kvitta seg me sverdet. "Stikk å drag" skraik trådle å tainkte å fao Svartesmien ti å dra sverde aott seg atte. "Lat staonda so staind ti maondags" sa smien, å darme drog han vegen sin viare ti sjøs. No laut trådle ti. Dao Svartesmien for haimatte, va ra daudt, å so stakk han Flusi i slirao. Men dao åpna ra seg tri porta hiti Låftesnesfjedle, å utao dai urde å krauk ra trådl, smaoe å store. "No e bestn daue, no e bestn daue!" skraik rai. So kom dai å tok Londamyrstrådle mødlo seg å drog ra me aover fjorn å inn igjøno ran støste portn. Dar kvark trådlatye. Siao lit portadn seg atte, å fjedle gjåymde ra skremlige følgje i faonge sitt. I laonge tie ittepao ottast fålk å fara her, å helst om kveldadn. Da blainkte so onderle rao nire pao myri i maonaskjine. Skrymsledn råyvde seg, å ri tyktest håyra trådlaskrik gjøno daln. Kan henda trådli va attekåmne.