Nodens
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*Nodens, *Nodons or *Nudens is a Celtic healing god worshipped in Ancient Britain. Although no physical depiction of him has survived, votive plaques found in a shrine at Lydney Park indicate his conn
Tolkien visited the temple of Nodens, a place called "Dwarf's Hill" and translated an inscription with a curse upon a ring. It may have inspired his dwarves, Mines of Moria, rings, and Celebrimbor "Silver-Hand".
Bath house at the Lydney Park temple complex
Nuada Airgetlám
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In Irish mythology, Nuada or Nuadu, known by the epithet Airgetlám, was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He is also called Nechtan and Nuadu Necht, and is sometimes believed to be Elcmar, husba
Nodens
…warrior) and associated in a curse with Silvanus (a hunting-god). His name is cognate with that of later Celtic mythological figures, such as the Irish Nuada and the Welsh Nudd. The philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien was invited to investigate the Latin inscription, and scholars have noted several likely…
The Tandragee Idol, which may represent Nuada