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Blažek, Václav 2008, Celtic ‘smith’ and his colleagues, in Alexander Lubotsky, Jos Schaeken and Jeroen Wiedenhof (eds.) Evidence and counter-evidence: Festschrift for F. Kortlandt 1, Amsterdam–New York: Rodopi,
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In literary references, he was employed by many Irish saints to build churches, oratories, and bell towers, and he is alluded to in an eighth-century Irish poem, preserved in a monastery in
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The Goban Saor is described as the son of Tuirbe Tragmar ("thrower of axes"), a figure whose magical axe would hold back the sea after it was thrown on the strand.
72:. In the "Life of St. Abban" it is said that "the fame of Gobban as a builder in wood as well as stone would exist in Ireland to the end of time." 253: 45:(Gobban the Builder) is a figure regarded in Irish traditional lore as an architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as 293: 278: 163: 58: 298: 228:
n.125 Tráig Tuirbi, in The Rennes Dindshenchas, edited by Whitney Stokes, pages 76-77, Revue Celtiques 16 (1895)
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Book. Two of Ella Young's retellings were reprinted by Collier in "The Young Folks Shelf of Books."
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was a highly skilled smith or architect in Irish history and legend.
148: 246: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the 28: 206:"Goban Saor" in "The Oxford companion to Irish literature" 167:
is a retelling of fourteen tales about the Gobán Saor, by
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The Kiltartan History Book / Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932
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St Gobain
St Goban

St. Gobban
Catholic Encyclopedia
Turvey
Donabate peninsula
Carinthia
Goibniu
Old Irish
smithcraft
Old Irish
smith
Middle Welsh
smith
Gallic
smiths
Latin
smith
Lithuanian
gabija
Lithuanian
The Wonder Smith and His Son
Ella Young
Boris Artzybasheff
Newbery Honor
Derrynaflan Church
"Goban Saor" in "The Oxford companion to Irish literature"

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