Balor

Children

• Ethniu

Domains

• fomorians

Powers

• the destroying eye whose gaze withers armies
• slays Nuada Airgetlám in the Second Battle of Mag Tuired before Lugh fells him

Epithets

• Balor Béimnech Old Irish · Balor Beimnech · nameBalor the SmiterCath Maige Tuired (primary)
• Balor Birugderc Old Irish · Balor Birugderc · nameBalor of the Piercing / Evil EyeCath Maige Tuired (primary)

Relations

• father of: EthniuFather of Ethniu, mother of Lugh.Cath Maige Tuired (primary)
• enemy: LughMaternal grandfather and slain foe of Lugh, who killed him with a sling-stone through the eye at Mag Tuired. The existing irish_lugh entry names Balor in prose.Cath Maige Tuired (primary)

Sources

• existence: Cath Maige Tuired (Second Battle of Mag Tuired) (primary); Lebor Gabála Érenn (primary)