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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: mythslegendscelt00roll (find matches) Title: Myths and legends&#160;; the Celtic race Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920 Subjects: Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, Celtic Publisher: Boston&#160;: Nickerson Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: sprung. After these came the Sons of Miled, whoconquered the People of Dana. All this time Tuankept the shape of the sea-eagle, till one day, findinghimself about to undergo another transformation, hefasted nine days&#160;; then sleep fell upon me, and I waschanged into a salmon. He rejoices in his new life,escaping for many years the snares of the fishermen,till at last he is captured by one of them and broughtto the wife of Carell, chief of the country. Thewoman desired me and ate me by herself, whole, sothat I passed into her womb. He is born again, andpasses for Tuan son of Carell; but the memory of hispre-existence and all his transformations and all thehistory of Ireland that he witnessed since the days ofPartholan still abides with him, and he teaches all thesethings to the Christian monks, who carefully preservethem. This wild tale, with its atmosphere of grey antiquityand of childlike wonder, reminds us of the transforma-tions of the Welsh Taliessin, who also became an eagle, 100 Text Appearing After Image: Tuan watches Nemed lOO THE NEMEDIANS and points to that doctrine of the transmigration of thesoul which, as we have seen, haunted the imaginationof the Celt. We have now to add some details to the sketch ofthe successive colonisations of Ireland outlined byTuanmac Carell. The Nemedians The Nemedians, as we have seen, were akin to thePartholanians. Both of them came from the mysteriousregions of the dead, though later Irish accounts, whichendeavoured to reconcile this mythical matter withChristianity, invented for them a descent from Scripturalpatriarchs and an origin in earthly lands such as Spain orScythla. Both of them had to do constant battle withthe Fomorlans, whom the later legends make out to bepirates from oversea, but who are doubtless divinitiesrepresenting the powers of darkness and evil. ThereIs no legend of the Fomorlans coming into Ireland, norwere they regarded as at any time a regular portion ofthe population. They were coeval with the world itself.Nemed fought victori Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Nemed or Nimeth is a character in medieval Irish legend. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he is the leader of the third group of people to settle in Ireland: the Muintir Nemid, Clann Nemid or "Nemedians". They arrive thirty years after their predecessors, the Muintir Partholóin, had died out. Nemed eventually dies of plague and his people are oppressed by the Fomorians. They rise up against the Fomorians, but most are killed and the survivors abandon the island. Their descendants become the Fir Bolg and the Tuatha Dé Danann.
context_section_description: Nemed or Nimeth (modern spelling: Neimheadh)  is a character in medieval Irish legend. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn (compiled in the 11th century), he is the leader of the third group of people to settle in Ireland: the Muintir Nemid (or Muintir Neimhidh, "people of Nemed"), Clann Nemid (Clann Neimhidh, "offspring of Nemed") or "Nemedians". They arrive thirty years after their predecessors, the Muintir Partholóin, had died out. Nemed eventually dies of plague and his people are oppressed by the Fomorians. They rise up against the Fomorians, but most are killed and the survivors abandon the island. Their descendants become the Fir Bolg and the Tuatha Dé Danann.
caption: "Tuan watches Nemed", an illustration of Tuán watching the Nemedians arriving in Ireland, by J. C. Leyendecker in T. W. Rolleston's Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911
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