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Lebor Gabála Érenn LEBOR GABÁLA ÉRENN The Book of the Taking of Ireland PART VI Index B-C EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH NOTES, ETC. BY R. A. Stewart Macalister, D.Litt. Index Compiled by Michael Murphy 2008 B Baad ( See : Baath 2) Baath 1 –The ō Clérigh version “is unique in supplying the Scythian king with a brother, Baath, who aids him in the fight against the followers of Sru.” ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 2 , p. 5) Baath 2 [Baad] – Baath 2 was the son of Ibath son of Bethach son of Iardan [Iarbonel] son of Nemed; his son was Enda [Enna]. He was one of the thirty warriors who survived the battle at Conaing’s Tower. After- wards “Ibath and his son Baath went into the north of the world.” ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 1 , p. 173; Vol. 3 , p. 125, 143, 145, 153, 196; Vol. 4 , p. 98, 127, 153, 155, 187) Baath 3 – Baath 3 was the son of Ibath son of Feinius Farsaid. His son was Nenual. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 2 , p. 23, 130) Baath 4 – Baath 4 was the son of Ibath son of Gomer son of Iafeth. His son was Feinius Farsaid. “Of him [Baath 4] are the Gaedil and the people of Scythia.” ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 2 , p. 9, 23, 126, 153, 157, 161, 253) Baath 5 [Bathath] – Baath 5 was the son of Magog son of Iafeth son of Noe. His sons were Alainus and Feinius Farsaid. “Of him [Baath 5] are the Gaedil and the people of Scythia.” ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 1 , p. 155, 157, 163, 167; Vol. 2 , p. 45, 47) Baath 6 – Baath 6 was the son of Nenual son of Feinius Farsaid. His son was also named Nenual. “The redactor … has introduced a mistake of his own in the Scythian genealogy. Nenual I was son , and Nenual II great-grandson of Fenius: the grandson of that patriarch was Baath.” ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 2 , p. 17, 144) Baath 7 – Baath 7 was the son of Rifath Scot. His son was Esru. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 2 , p. 47; Vol. 3 , p. 5, 127) Babal – Babal was one of two merchants, the other being Bibal, who was a member of the Partholon expedition to Ireland. Babal is described as ‘the white’. Babal brought cattle to Ireland, and Bibal brought gold. “Iban and Eban, the merchants of whom, once more, we first hear in R 3, appear in the poem as Bibal and Babal, and this form is adopted by K [ ō Cléirigh].” ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 2 , p. 267; Vol. 3 , p. 59, 95) Babel ( See : Architecture; Tower, Cities) Bablu – “Among the wonders of Ireland there was a wedded couple living in the east of Clonard called Bablu and Biblu (Irish Nennius ed. Todd, p. 212); but unfortunately the compiler of that exasperatingly summary catalogue has omitted to tell us wherein their singularity consisted. The names are similar to those of Partholon’s merchants [Bibal and Babal] as preserved here and in the later texts, but no other connexion between them can be traced.” ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 3 , p. 109, 109 n) ( See Also : Babal, Bibal, Eban, Iban) Babylon ( See : Cities) Babylonia – “The fourth river [of Paradise], Eufrates, [southward it goeth straight, so that it floweth through the middle of Babylonia.]” “The legend of the Fall of the Angels … quite likely has its roots in the myth of the combat of Marduk and Ti āmat, which is the prologue to the Babylonian legend of Creation … foreshadowing the downfall of the King of Babylon, and addressing him ironically as “Morning Star, has given the name “Lucifer to the leader of the revolting angels.” “The chronology presupposed as between the Babylonian and Egyptian monarchs mentioned in the narratives is of course ridiculous.” “The synchronism suggested with the last king of Assyria [Tonos Concoleros] ( recte Babylonia) is quite indefensible.” After Cyrus the son of Darius captured Babylon, “the Captivity was released from the Babylonian bondage.” “It is he [Cyrus] who brought the fifty thousand of the captivity of Jerusalem from Babylon, and five thousand golden vessels and many thousand silver vessels.” ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 1 , p. 59, 204; Vol. 2 , p. 127; Vol. 3 , p. 200; Vol. 4, p. 43; Vol. 5 , p. 59, 85) Bacc ( See: Baicid) Bachra, the ( See : Peoples; Barca) Bacorb Ladra [Bacorp] – “Bacorb Ladra, who was a sound sage, he was Partholon’s man of learning.” However, note that ¶225 has Bacorp and Ladra as two individuals: “Of his companies were his poet and his leech, Bacorp the leech and Ladru the poet.” ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 3 , p. 27, 59, 109) Bacorp ( See : Bacorb Ladra) Bacra, the ( See : Peoples; Barca) Bacru, the ( See : Peoples; Barca) Badarn – He is the son of Aigetmar and his son is Áed Rúad. ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 261, 267, 511) Badb 1 [Bodb, Fea] – Badb 1 is one of the three daughters of Delbaeth son of Ogma; her mother was Ernmas the daughter of Etarlam. Badb 1 was a war-fury. Macalister refers to the three sisters – Badb 1, Macha, and Mōr-rīgu – as “the Badb sisterhood.” “Elsewhere Fea and Neman [the wives of Net] appear as Badb and Nemain (¶338); and as Mor-rigu is sometimes called Neman, the identity of these two women with two of the three war-furies, daughters of Delbaeth, is complete.” “The genealogies before us seem to suggest an earlier tradition in which Badb and the variously-named third member of the group formed a dyad.” (source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 4 , p. 103, 104, 123, 131, 155, 161, 183, 189, 217, 296, 298, 306) Badb 2 – Badb 2 was one of the two wives of Net son of Indui. She was slain, along with Net and Neman, at Ailech by Nemtuir the Fomorian. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 4 , p. 155, 237) Badbchad ( See : Bodbchad) Badgna ( See : Ros Fraechain) Badna – Badna was the son of Enna son of Neman son of Maduda son of Igniad son of Goll Eilic, who was killed with his three brothers – Bodb, Gnae, and Connad Cerr - in the battle of Brefne against Túathal Techtmar. ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 319) Badna – A battle was fought here by the Connachta against Túathal Techtmar where Brestin son of Bres son of Tres son of Tomán son of Brestni was killed. ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 319) ( See Also : Battles) Badra 1 – His son was Buidne. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 511) Badra 2 – His son was Nemed and he was the grand-father of the three sons of Nemed who killed Eochu son of Erc, the last king of the Fir Bolg. ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 4 , p. 11, 21, 33, 45, 51, 111, 173; Vol. 5 , p. 493) Báetán 1 – Báetán 1 was the son of Eochu and a king of Ireland from the Dál nAraide. “Dál nAraide had thirty kings in the kingship of Ireland, in Temair, from the time of Ollom Fotla s. Fíachu Finnscothach to the time of Báetán 1 s. Eochu.” ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 289) Báetán 2 [Baedán, Baedan Brigi,Baetan Brigi] – Báetán 2 from Cenél Conaill or Cenél Eogain was the son of Muirchertach. Báetán 2 ‘s son was Colmán Rímid. Baetan 2 was the 123 rd king of Ireland with his brother Eochu and they ruled for 2 or 3 years until they were killed in battle in A.D. 580, trying to exact the Boroma Tribute. They were killed by Cronan son of Tigernach king of Ciannachta of Glenn Gaimin, or it was that Báetán 2 fell at the same time in Iardoman at the hands of Colmán Bec son of Dui and Conall son of Comgall. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 368, 369, 373, 543, 557, 559) ( See Also : Governance; Joint Rule) Báetán 3 [Baedán] – Báetán 3 was the son of Ninnid son of Fergus Cennfota. Báetán 3 was the 125 th king of Ireland, who ruled for just one year. He fought two battles to exact the Boroma Tribute and fell in the battle of Da Chumain at the hands of the two Cumaines – Cumaine son of Colman Becc and Cumaine Librene son of Illadán. “They killed him on the advice of Colmán Becc”. During his reign were the deaths of Ita of Cluain and of Áed son of Suibne, king of Moen-mag. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 371, 545) Baethgal – Baethgal mortally wounded Áed Slaine, the 127 th king of Ireland, at Loch Semdige. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 373) Baetyl ( See : Idol) Bags ( See : Tools; Containers) Bai – Bai was the son of Tai son of Barachan son of Magog. Bai’s son was Etheor. (source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 1 , p. 157; Vol. 2 , p. 47) Baicid [Bacc] – His son was Findchad {Finnchad]. ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 5 , p. 297, 463) Baile – He was the son of Buan. The portion of territory of Rudraige of the Fir Bolg extended from Ess Ruaid to the strand of Baile [son] of Buan. ( source: Macalister, LGE, Vol. 4 , p. 57) Baile Breg – “Tuirrill Picreo of Baile Breg [fell] in the first battle of Mag Tuiread.” ( source : Macalister, LGE, Vol. 4 , p. 227) Baile an Scáil ( See : Authors; O’Curry) Bailius (See : Xerxes) Báine [Báne] – Báine was the daughter of Scál Balb; the wife of Túathal Techtmar; and the mother of Feidlimid Rechtaid. She assisted her son, Feidlimid Rechtaid in killing Mál, son of Rochraide, who was the 96 th king of Ireland. The killing was in revenge for Mál’s slaying of her husband.
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