Tuatha De Danann

The Tuatha Dé Danann is one of the most mysterious peoples of the British Isles. Fascinatingly enough, some Celtic traditions place the prehistory of the Tuatha Dé Danann on the Greek islands in ages past. Although scholars often disregard this information as later interpolations, authors like Robert Graves in his well-known book, The White Goddess, did take it seriously, writing: “ According to an archaeologically plausible Irish tradition in the ‘Book of Invasions’, the Tuatha de Danaan had been driven northward from Greece… and eventually reached Ireland by way of Denmark…. The date of their arrival in Britain is recorded as 1472 BC, for what that is worth.” If there is any truth to this tradition, it would perhaps not