Étaín
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Étaín or Édaín (Modern Irish spelling: Éadaoin) is a figure of Irish mythology, best known as the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing of Étaín), one of the oldest and richest stories of the Mythological Cycle. She also figures in the Middle Irish Togail Bruidne Dá Derga (''The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel''). T. F. O'Rahilly identified her as a sun goddess.
Key facts
- Character.name
- Étaín
- Character.series
- Mythological Cycle
- Character.image
- 9 They rose up in the air.jpg
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- Étaín and Midir, illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's The High Deeds of Finn (1910)
- Character.alias
- Édaín, Eddin, Jédin
- Character.gender
- female
- Character.family
- Ailill
- Character.spouse
- Eochaid Feidlech, Midir
- Character.children
- Étaín Óg
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- Name
- Genealogy
- ''Tochmarc Étaine''
- Dindsenchas
- ''Togail Bruidne Dá Derga''
- Silver basin
- Additional references
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
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Étaín or Édaín (Modern Irish spelling: Éadaoin) is a figure of Irish mythology, best known as the heroine of Tochmarc Étaíne (The Wooing of Étaín), one of the oldest and richest stories of the Mythological Cycle. She also figures in the Middle Irish Togail Bruidne Dá Derga (''The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel''). T. F. O'Rahilly identified her as a sun goddess.
==Name== The name Étaín () is alternately spelt as Edain, Aideen, Etaoin, Éadaoin, Aedín, or Adaon. It is derived from a diminutive form of Old Irish ét, "passion, jealousy". She is sometimes known by the epithet Echraide ("horse rider"), suggesting links with horse deities and figures such as the Welsh Rhiannon and the Gaulish Epona. In Tochmarc Étaíne Midir names her Bé Find (Fair Woman). However, the poem embedded in the text, "A Bé Find in ragha lium" may be an older, unrelated composition that was appended to the story later.