Celtic Pantheonweapon
Spear of Lugh
- Perfect Accuracy
- Victory Assurance
- Fire Generation
- Returning
One of the Four Treasures of the Tuatha De Danann, this fiery spear never misses its target and guarantees victory in battle. It must be kept in a cauldron of water to prevent it from igniting.
About Spear of Lugh
Spear from Gorias
Lebor Gabála Érenn lists four treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann: the stone of Fál, the spear from Gorias, the sword from Findias, the cauldron from Murias. Lugh's spear (Gáe Assail and related names in later dindshenchas and Cath Maige Tuired tradition) is the victory-weapon that must be quenched or it burns. Medieval Irish Christian scholars wrote these tracts; they keep older names inside a learned origin-of-Ireland framework. Unlike Excalibur, this is Irish saga-material in medieval recension — pagan furniture in a monastic book, not a French romance.
Origin
Brought from the city of Gorias by the Tuatha De Danann when they came to Ireland from the otherworld.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Lebor Gabála Érenn (Four Treasures)
- Cath Maige Tuired
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