Norse vs Irish Myth

This is a great post, White! I'd actually read a discussion not too long ago in a Heathen community regarding similarities between Lugh and Loki. A discussion was being held due to the fact that there's a few deities within the Norse pantheon that can sometimes be confused with Loki (Logi/Loge, and Utgard Loki (a jotun with the same name)). The similarities are definitely present. I think Brysing and Lark covered some interesting perspectives about that.

Thank you everyone for making this thread awesome! I was a bit shocked by the mass of replies!

When it comes to women and war, it is hard to tell with what evidence we have. Hopefully soon more will be uncovered.

As for the Loch Ness, I apologize for using a Scottish creature. In my defense, I never said it was Irish, just that the mythology is similar.

My reason for this is actually not your typical website information on the creature but on my own research of folklore and spirits of Europe. Ness was originally perceived to be a water spirit known in Gaelic as the an niseag. Generally speaking, a kelpie. This was supposed to be a water horse that turned into a woman. But here is where it get's interesting, the water spirits of the German's called the nixe were water wyrms that could also turn human. Then, the name jumped across to Britain where they have the Knuckers, also water serpents. The "Nicor" in Beowulf. If you look at their not so far neighbors, the "Knuckers" were water serpents. This makes me believe that the folklore crossed big time and it had nothing to do with a dinosaur.

Say it with me Ness, Niseag, Nixe, Nicor, Knucker...the linguistic trail seems legitimately plausible.