Flidais' Daughters
I've made a post about Flidais herself, and in that post, I mention that she has quite a few daughters. She also has one son, but we explored most of what there is on him in that original post. But her daughters are intriguing on their own and in my opinion deserve their own post. The order they're listed in is alphabetical and does not denote any sort of order of importance. Arden There is only one mention of Arden in the original sources. She appears briefly in the Lebor Gabála Érenn alongside 3 of her sisters in the quote: "Flidais, of whom is the "Cattle of Flidais"; her four daughters were Argoen and Be Chuille and Dinand and Be Theite." [sic] (2) . Even though this is the only mention of her, scholar John Carey sees a potential connection between Arden and Arduinna (1). Arduinna is a Continental Gaulish Goddess of the Ardennes forest, which is mostly within Belgium, Germany, and France. Arduinna might have been a forest/woodland Goddess herself, as s...