Kingship and the battle at Mag Tuired
Five figures who meet inside one medieval Irish tale, Cath Maige Tuired: the king whose lost hand is replaced in silver, the stranger who claims every craft at the door, the Fomorian eye that Lugh’s sling-stone closes, and the Dagda and the Morrígan meeting at the river before the fighting.
Riders and otherworlds
Rhiannon rides her white horse through the Welsh Four Branches; Epona is Gaulish and has no surviving story, only Roman-era altars and reliefs. Arawn is king of Welsh Annwfn, Manannán an Irish sea-lord whose islands become otherworlds in later tales. Grouped for a shared image, not for kinship any source proves.
Named more often than told
Brigid reaches us through an early Irish glossary and a few lines in the tales; Cernunnos through one damaged Roman-era pillar in Paris, his name now attached to antlered figures it never labelled; Danu chiefly through a genitive in Túatha Dé Danann; the Cailleach through Gaelic folklore written down centuries later.
