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Fomorian, n. (and a.) Celtic Mythol.|fəʊˈmɔərɪən|
Pl. also Fomori.
[f. Ir. fomor pirate, monster, f. fo under + mor sea (cogn. w. mare n.2) = Gael. famhair + -ian.]
In Irish legend, one of a race of pirates or giants, perhaps originally representing the gods of death and darkness. In Scottish legend, a giant. Also as adj.
1876Encycl. Brit. V. 300/2 That the Fomorian and Tuatha Dé Danaan contests are mythological there can be no doubt. 1891W. B. Yeats John Sherman & Dhoya 173 One evening Fomorian galleys had entered the Bay of the Red Cataract. 1898J. Heron Celtic Church 5 Partholonians, Nemedians, and Fomorians, or sea-rovers, are..the first..to take possession [of Ireland]. 1901J. Rhŷs Celtic Folklore II. vii. 435 The Irish Morc..and another called Conaing are represented in the legendary history of early Erin as the naval leaders of the Fomori. 1921L. Spence Introd. Mythol. xi. 294 Among these warring elements the Fomorians are a race of Titans. 1926Contemp. Rev. Mar. 352 Scottish folk lore knows the giants as Fomorians. Tale after tale tells of their great boulder-throwing contests on the Scottish hills. 1959Aldington & Ames tr. Larousse Encycl. Mythol. 236/1 After a battle with the Fomorians in which Conann and many Fomorian followers were killed, the remnants of the people of Nemed fled from the country. 1964E. O. G. Turville-Petre Myth & Religion of North vii. 160 This second battle has been seen as one between the Tuatha Dé Danann, gods of light, life, day, and the Fomorians, gods of death and darkness. |