Uaithne

In Irish mythology, Uaithne (, ) is Dagda's harp, or rather the Dagda's harper, according to a number of modern translators (cf. ).

==Attestations== Úaithne figures as the name of Dagda's harper captured by the Fomorians according to the narrative Cath Maige Tuired ("Second Battle of Mag Tuired"). After this battle, Dagda discovered his harp hanging on a wall, in a feasting-house wherein Bres and his father Elathan were also. The harp had two names, ("Oak of Two Meadows") and ("Four-Angled Music" or perhaps rather "Four-sided Rectitude"). On this harp, the Dagda bound the music so that it would not sound until he would call to it by its names. After he called to it, it sprang from the wall of its own accord, came to the Dagda, and killed nine men on its way.