Gofannon
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Gofannon
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Gofannon is a Middle Welsh reflex of Gobannus, one of the deities worshipped by the ancient Celts. He features in Middle Welsh literature as a great metal worker and as the son of Dôn. His name can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ‘smith’, Middle Welsh / Cornish / Breton gof ‘smith’, Gaulish gobedbi ‘with the smiths’, all of which are cognate with Lithuanian gabija ‘sacred home fire’, gabus ‘gifted, clever’. His apparent counterpart in Irish mythology, Goibniu, in addition to his duties as a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofannon
date created:
2002-09-15T21:52:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:09:34Z
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