It is sometimes called the “woman who lives at the end of time,” or the “woman who lives at the edge of the world.” And this criatura is always a creator-hag, or a death Goddess, or a maiden in descent, or any number of other personifications.

Her father was the Dagda; her mother, the Morrigan.

In the most famous epic in Irish mythology, the Tain Bo Cuailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, we learn of another powerful female Druid, Fidelma. Queen Medb of Connacht is about to engage her armies in battle with King Conchobar of Ulster. She consults Fidelma, who tells her that she has just returned from ‘learning verse and vision in Albion’. Medb