Bres

His father is named Elatha in the sources; the treatment consulted says only that he 'went to his father's family for aid', so this record says that and Elatha is a BLOCKED census row. Bres is the most interesting political figure in the Irish material — a king deposed for MEANNESS, in a literature where a king's first duty is hospitality — and the corpus held the man he replaced, the man who healed that man, and the battle, and not him.

Domains

• kingship

Relations

• displaced and was displaced by: NuadaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Nuada record. The kind carries both halves of a two-way sequence — Bres has the throne because Nuada's maiming disqualifies him, and loses it because Nuada is healed — which is the shape of the whole episode.Reference treatment: Nuadu was given a functional human hand by Miach, and Bres was overthrown. (secondary)

Sources

• Bres is the half-Fomorian king of the Tuatha Dé Danann whose ungenerous reign and tribute-taking end when Nuada is healed, and who then brings a Fomorian army to the second battle of Mag Tuired.: Reference treatments of Bres and of Cath Maige Tuired. (secondary)