Badb
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I heard something, the Badb from the corpses: "Ill the stuff of a hero that is under the feet of a phantom."
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by L. Winifred Faraday
And while they were moving there and putting up their walls, three queens of them, Badb and Macha and the Morrigu, went to Teamhair where the Firbolgs were making their plans.
From Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory
Badb means "a scald-crow," under which form the war-goddesses appeared, probably because these birds were seen near the slain.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch
Then Nemain, 1the Badb to wit,1 attacked them, and that was not the quietest of nights they had, with the noise of the churl, namely Dubthach, in theirb sleep.
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn
The Badb and Net's wife and the Nemain called on them that night on Garach and Irgarach; so that a hundred warriors of them died for terror.
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by L. Winifred Faraday
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