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Once in every seven years, a salmon leaves the ‘secret recesses of Creation’ to appear in the river Éber [Ebro], which runs across the middle of Spain. Wool is said to grow through the salmon. When that day arrives, the druid tells the king's daughter to look for the salmon, catch it and strip the wool off it, so that Éogan may obtain his third name.
(At this point in the narrative, Eugene O'Curry suspects that the scribe omitted at least a sentence from the text he transcribed.)
Ligbratach, daughter of the (then) king of Spain, was here before her. In conclusion, the druid recites a quatrain telling the king's daughter to produce a garment from the salmon's wool. Thus they catch the salmon and she weaves a beautiful cloak from its wool bearing all the salmon's colours. When Éogan wears it, the colour it radiates varies from one observer to the next and when the king looks at him, Éogan's face and clothing appear all bright and shining, hence he is known from that day onwards by a third epithet, namely Fidlech (‘the Shining’).The druid recites a quatrain telling the king's daughter to produce a garment from the salmon's wool.
The druid recites a quatrain telling the king's daughter to produce a garment from the salmon's wool.
Antipater ... druid No associated entry available from the subject index
Moméra ... alias Bera <strong>Moméra ... alias Bera</strong> <br>(<i>time-frame ass. with</i> Ailill Ólomm,Id) <br>in Munster origin legends, a daughter of (Éber) the king of Spain, who became the wife of Mug Núadat (alias Éogan Taídlech) and the mother of Ailill Ólomm. Her name is given as Bera in <em>Cath Maighe Léna</em> and a long recension of <em>Cóir anmann</em>.
Ligbratach ... daughter of the king of Spain No associated entry available from the subject index
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