Dagda

Or Dagh·da

[dahg-duh]

noun

Irish Mythology.

1. a god, the chief of the Tuatha De Danann, the father of Angus Og and Brigit, and the leader of the battle against the Fomorians.

Example Sentences

Now Pidge and his indomitable little sister Brigit must fight for the good god Dagda and guard the manuscript from the covetous Morrigan.

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No sooner had they halted, than a tall man came forth from the palace, namely, Angus Mac Indoc of the Bruga, son of the Dagda, and commanded them to leave the place without delay.

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Cormac, in his "Glossary," tells us she was a daughter of the Dagda and a goddess whom all poets adored, and whose two sisters were Brigit the physician and Brigit the smith.

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When Dagda thus distributed the underground palaces, Mac ind Oc, or as he was otherwise called Oengus, was absent and hence forgotten.

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She was the daughter of the supreme head of the People of Dana, the god Dagda, “The Good.”

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