Brea (mythology)

Brea (mythology)

In Irish mythology, the god Brea was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He fathered a son with a beautiful peasant girl with elf like qualities. On his birth his father named the boy Negraf Eimaj which translated means 'Courage and Power'.


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