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Créd

 

1. Fairy lover of the Fenian hero Cáel. A daughter of Cairbre, king of Ciarraige [Kerry], she is wooed by Cáel, who wins her with the excellence of his poetry. Before Cath Fionntrágha [the Battle of Ventry], she presents each of the Fenians with a special battle-dress. They are ineffective, though, and Cáel is killed. When Créd sees her lover in his grave, she takes her own life by lying beside him at his burial. Many love-songs are attributed to her, and one is recounted in Acallam na Senórach [The Colloquy of the Ancients].

2. The mistress of Cano mac Gartnáin, a king of Scotland. A daughter of Guaire, king of Connacht, and wife of Marcán, king of Uí Maine, she is smitten with Cano when he pays a visit to the kingdom. After her tryst with Cano is thwarted, she dashes her head against a rock at Lough Crede. In later times the O'Connors of Connacht claimed her as an ancestress.

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Celtic Mythology. A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Copyright © James MacKillop 1998, 2004. All rights reserved.  Read more