Dian Cecht and Nuada's Silver Arm

Dian Cecht receives Ogma’s message and sets out to find a way of fighting back against Bres’s tyranny. He recruits the blacksmith Gobniu and the silversmith Credne to help him create a new arm for the former High Chief of the Gods, Nuada.

• What was Dian Cecht's role in myth and in the old pagan religion?
• What is Dian Cecht’s relationship to Brehon Law?
• What makes Dian Cecht a symbol of the medical profession?
• Why were Blacksmiths considered to have supernatural powers?
• How do we resolve contradictions in medieval mythological texts?

credits

Written, presented and produced  by Marcas Ó hUiscín and Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh.

Music - Celtic Warrior by Damiano Baldoni (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 public licence

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