Balor
Also known as: Balor of the Evil Eye, Balar
Basic account
Fomorian king whose eye destroyed armies: slain by his grandson Lugh.
Account
Balor of the Evil Eye leads the Fomorians. His single eye is kept shut and needs four men to lift the lid, and whatever it looks at dies.
Motifs
- The single eye
- War against the gods
- The gift that undoes
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What is disputed
What the Fomorians are is unsettled.
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Sources
- Cath Maige Tuired (The Second Battle of Mag Tuired), Old/Middle Irish
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Chain of custody
Balor and the second battle of Mag Tuired come down to us from pre-Christian Irish tradition: the story is native Irish pagan myth, carried orally through the conversion and only later written down by monks.
The witnesses checked for this ladder are Christian-era Irish manuscripts and post-medieval collections, and the case for older material inside them rests on linguistic dating and comparison rather than on a document from pagan Ireland.
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