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[[The Dagda]] has an affair with [[Boann]], the goddess of the River Boyne. She lives at [[Newgrange|Brú na Bóinne]] with her husband [[Elcmar]]. The Dagda impregnates her after sending Elcmar away on a one-day errand. To hide the pregnancy from Elcmar, the Dagda casts a spell on him, making "the sun stand still" so he will not notice the passing of time. Meanwhile, Boann gives birth to Aengus. Eventually, Aengus learns that the Dagda is his true father and asks him for a portion of land. In some versions of the tale—probably the original, from ''[[The Wooing of Etain]]''—the Dagda helps Aengus take ownership of the Brú from Elcmar. Aengus asks and is given the Brú for ''láa ocus aidche''; because in Old Irish this could mean either "a day and a night" or "day and night", Aengus claims it forever. Other versions have Aengus taking over the Brú from the Dagda himself by using the same trick. The Brú is then named ''Brug maic ind Óig'' after him. In ''The Wooing of Etain'' version, [[Midir]] is Aengus's foster-father.<ref>[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T300012/index.html The Wooing of Étaíne] CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts</ref>
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== 神話 ==
=== アイルランドの神話 ===
ダグダはボイン川の女神ボアンと不倫していた。ボアンは夫エルクマール（Elcmar）とブルーナボインに住んでいる。 ダグザはエルクマールを一日だけ使いに出した後、ボアンを孕ませた。ダグザはエルクマールに妊娠を隠すため、「太陽を静止させる」魔法をかけ、時間の経過を悟らせないようにした。その間に、ボアンはオェングスを出産した。やがてオェングスは、ダグザが自分の本当の父親であることを知り、土地の一部をダグザに要求した。この物語のいくつかのバージョン（おそらく原典は『The Wooing of Etain』）において、ダグザはオェングスがエルクマールからブルー（Brú）の所有権を奪うのを手助けする<ref group="私注">Brúとは「居住権」のようなものか？</ref>。オェングスは「láa ocus aidche」のブルーを要求し、与えられた。古アイルランド語ではこれは「一日と一晩」または「昼と夜」のどちらかの意味になるので、オェングスはこれを永遠に要求した。他の説では、オェングスが同じ手口でダグザ自身からブルーを譲り受けたとされている。そして、ブルーはオェングスの名をとってブラッグマイクインドオェグ（Brug maic ind Óig）と名づけられた<ref>Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí. ''Myth, Legend & Romance: An encyclopaedia of the Irish folk tradition''. Prentice Hall Press, 1991. p.39</ref><ref name="Hensey">Hensey, Robert. Re-discovering the winter solstice alignment at Newgrange, in ''The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology''. Oxford University Press, 2017. pp.11-13</ref>。「エテインの求婚」編では、ミディールはオェングスの養父である<ref>[http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T300012/index.html The Wooing of Étaíne] CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts</ref>。
It has been suggested that this tale represents the [[winter solstice]] illumination of Newgrange at Brú na Bóinne, during which the sunbeam (the Dagda) enters the inner chamber (the womb of Boann) when the [[Sun path|sun's path]] stands still. The word ''solstice'' (Irish ''grianstad'') means sun-standstill. The conception of Aengus may represent the 'rebirth' of the sun at the winter solstice, him taking over the Brú from an older god representing the growing sun taking over from the waning sun.<ref name="Hensey"/><ref>Anthony Murphy and Richard Moore. "Chapter 8, Newgrange: Womb of the Moon", ''Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers''. Liffey Press, 2008. pp.160-172</ref> [[Dáithí Ó hÓgáin]] suggested the tale probably dramatizes the idea "that the blooming of youth denies the process of aging - at the youthful stage of life time passes slowly and vitality seems to be permanent".<ref name="mythlegendromance"/>
