--- title: Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cycle of the Fomorians. — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · full text with trees description: Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cycle of the Fomorians., «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: 1700 B.C. age of the NEMEDIAN divinities, a later branch of the PARTHOLANIAN _vide post_ NEMEDIA --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/) / Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cy… # Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cycle of the Fomorians. Age of the Nemedian Gods and Second Cycle of the Fomorians. of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady: the whole text, 6 sentences and 247 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. 1700 B.C. age of the NEMEDIAN divinities, a later branch of the PARTHOLANIAN \_vide post\_ NEMEDIAN pedigree.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") NEMEDH, his wife Maca (first appearance of Macha, the war goddess, who gave her name to Armagh, i.e., Ard Macha, the Height of Macha), Iarbanel; Fergus, the Red-sided, and Starn, sons of Nemedh; Beothah, son of Iarbanel; Erglann, son of Beoan, son of Starn; Simeon Brac, son of Starn; Ibath, son of Beothach; Britan Mael, son of Fergus.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") This must be remembered, that not one of the almost countless names that figure in the Irish mythology is of fanciful origin.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") They all represent antique heroes and heroines, their names being preserved in connection with those monuments which were raised for purposes of sepulture or cult.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Wars now between the Clanna Nemedh and the second cycle of the Fomoroh, led this time by Faebar and More, sons of Dela, and Coning, son of Faebar; battles at Ros Freachan, now Rosreahan, barony of Murresk, Co. Mayo, at Slieve Blahma \[Note: Slieve Blahma, now Slieve Bloom, a mountain range famous in our mythology; one of the peaks, Ard Erin, sacred to Eire, a goddess of the Tuatha De Danan, who has given her name to the island.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The sites of all these mythological battles, where they are not placed in the haunted mountains, will be found to be a place of raths and cromlechs.\] and Murbolg, in Dalaradia (Murbolg, i.e., the stronghold of the giants,) also at Tor Coning, now Tory Island.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Age of Partholan and the Earliest Fomorian Gods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/8/) - next →: [Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/10/) - ↑ back to [Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8109/)