THE SILVER ARM

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Here we meet some of the greatest names of Irish mythology: Nuada, the Dagda, Ogma, Manannan Mac Lir, Breas the Beautiful, the triple goddess Badb (Macha, Morrigan and Nemain), and the healers Dian-Cecht and Miach. Because of this, Nuada was given the epithet Airgetlám, Silver-Hand. Dian Cecht’s son Miach eventually replaced the silver arm with one of flesh and bone, but the silver arm was enough to make Nuada eligible for kingship again. Stokes, Whitley; Strachan, John, eds. (1903), "The St. Gall Incantations", Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, University Press, pp.248–249 (Full text here via Celtic Literature Collective.)

a b c Matasović, Ranko (2009). Etymological dictionary of proto-Celtic. Leiden: Brill. p.352. ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1. OCLC 262430534. According to Irish legend, Nuada, sometimes given the modern spelling Nuadha, was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Dannan.

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Nuada went to the king of the Fir Bolg and asked for half of the island. The Fir Bolg refused this demand, so the two groups went to war. And that means that his legendary items, like his Porsche 911 Turbo and his cyberware silver hand, are somewhere in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, waiting for you to get them for yourself. Bres, aided by the Fomorian Balor of the Evil Eye, attempted to retake the kingship by force, and war and continued oppression followed. When the youthful and vigorous Lugh joined Nuada's court, the king realised the multi-talented youth could lead the Tuatha Dé against the Fomorians, and stood down in his favour. The second Battle of Mag Tuired followed. Nuada was killed and beheaded in battle by Balor, but Lugh avenged him by killing Balor and led the Tuatha Dé to victory. [8] When this was done, Dian Cecht opened the infant's heart, and found within it three serpents, capable, when they grew to full size, of depopulating Ireland. [17] He lost no time in destroying these serpents also, and burning them into ashes, to avoid the evil which even their dead bodies might do. [17] More than this, he flung the ashes into the nearest river, for he feared that there might be danger even in them. So venomous were they that the river boiled up and slew every living creature in it, and therefore it has been called the River Barrow, the ‘Boiling’ ever since. [17] Nuada’s most identifying feature, his silver hand, is also a mythological feature rather than a historic one. The Norse god Tyr and the Welsh Lludd Llaw Eriant, Llud of the Silver Hand, were both one-handed rulers.What might be of more interest is the aspect that, though his form was restored in full, one cannot erase the lessons that pain and debility teach. Looking upon Nuada would be akin to seeing a survivor, one who knows pain and loss, but doesn’t let it define him. Who is Nuada of the Silver Arm Today? But Dian Céacht was not finished yet. After seven years of the reign of Breas, Dian Céacht had not stopped trying to heal Nuadha. Eventually it was his son Miach and daughter Airmed who replaced the silver arm with a real arm of flesh and bone, much to the jealous disgust of their father. Inspired by these laws, and the use of robotics in the book, engineer Joseph Engelberger and inventor George Devol filed for a patent for a programmed article transfer device — the first incarnation of the robotic arm. The goal was a version of the medical Hippocratic Oath, to do no harm, employing these robots in positions that would normally be harmful to humans. Nuada held the throne for another twenty years until Bres returned with a Fomorian army to take power by force. Lugh led the Tuatha Dé Dannan to victory in the battle that secured their power and took the throne after Nuada was killed in battle.