2020年2月11日 · Loki provides the echo of that Celtic influence on early Northern culture within the Norse mythology. As Lugh or Lugus was one of the primary Celtic deities, I think that Loki can be identified as the Norse view of Lugh. This depends upon Loki and Lugh being identified together for which the argument is that both were fostered in the legends.

Lugh or Lug (Old Irish: [l͈uɣ]; modern Irish: Lú [l̪ˠuː]) is a figure in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a group of supernatural beings, Lugh is portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a saviour. [1]

Loki is a god in Norse mythology. He is the son of Fárbauti (a jötunn) and Laufey (a goddess), and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr. Loki is married to the goddess Sigyn and they have two sons, Narfi or Nari and Váli. By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki is the father of Hel, the wolf Fenrir and the world serpent Jörmungandr.

2021年12月21日 · Thanks to modern retellings of ancient myths in books and movies, names such as Hades, the Greek god of the Underworld, and Loki, the Norse trickster god, are well known. But the gods and...

2025年1月6日 · The Irish God of nobility, Lúgh is a member of Tuatha Dé Danann and he has strong ties to the law and oaths. He is portrayed as a skilled warrior and he fathered one of …

The Birth of Lugh: Óðinn and Loki among the Celts Thor Ewing Irish folklore has preserved the old account of Balar and his grandson Lugh. Balar has a daughter, Eithne, whose son is destined to kill her father.

2016年11月9日 · His renegade activities, mixed parentage and adventures bring to mind Ireland’s Lugh Lámhfhada with whom Loki bears a close resemblance in name as well as certain mythological attributes. Lugh was, in Irish mythology, the leader of the ‘fairy cavalcade’, much as Loki leads the great charge from Jötunheim at Ragnarok.

2024年12月13日 · Loki, in Norse mythology, a cunning trickster who had the ability to change his shape and sex. He was represented as the companion of the great gods Odin and Thor, helping them with his clever plans but sometimes causing embarrassment and …

2023年10月23日 · Article The Irish myth of Balar’s killing by Lug, the Norse myth of Baldr’s killing by Loki, and the Indic myth of the Wounded Sun was published on October 23, 2023 in the journal Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (volume 70, issue 1).

First, if the bilateral Irish-Norse parallel (d.2) is to be taken into account, then the god who pierced the light god was a crafty trickster, a feature that the Irish antagonist, Lug, and the Norse one, Loki, share with Prometheus, an Ancient Greek crafty trickster of likely Indo-European heritage who was closely associated with fire.