<ref group="私注">この場合の「タコ」とはギリシア神話のテューポーンのようなものか?</ref>。
『ディンセンチャス』では、ダグダは毒薬を素早く使いこなし、正義を貫く領主として描かれている。『ディンセンチャス』では、ダグダは毒薬を素早く使いこなし、正義を貫く領主として描かれている。また、「人質を抱えたエリンの王」、「高貴で細身の王子」、「セルマイト、[[オェングス]]、アエドの父」とも呼ばれている<ref>https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T106500D/text022.html, ''The Metrical Dindsenchas'' poem 22 "Ailech I"</ref>。
In the ''Dindsenchas'' the Dagda is described as swift with a poison draught and as a justly dealing lord. He is also called a King of Erin with hosts of hostages, a noble, slender prince, and the father of Cermait, Aengus, and Aed.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T106500D/text022.html| title = ''The Metrical Dindsenchas'' poem 22 "Ailech I"}}</ref>
He is credited with a seventy- or eighty-year reign (depending on source) over the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]], before dying at Brú na Bóinne, finally succumbing to a wound inflicted by [[Cethlenn]] during the battle of Mag Tuired.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Macalister |first=Robert Alexander Stewart |url=http://archive.org/details/leborgablare04macauoft |title=Lebor gabála Érenn : The book of the taking of Ireland |date=1938–1956 |publisher=Dublin : Published for the Irish texts Society by the Educational Company of Ireland |others=Kelly – University of Toronto |pages=314, 124–125 (Cetlenn); ¶366, pp. 184–185; Poem LV, str. 32 on p. 237}}</ref>