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Demne Máel. Boyhood name in classical Irish for Fionn mac Cumhaill; Deimne Maol is the ModIr. variant; Domhnach, Deima, etc., appear in oral tradition. Demne implies assurance or firmness and stability. Máel denotes short hair, and associations with druidism and the Otherworld.

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See J. F. Nagy , ‘Demna Mael’, Celtica, 14 (1981), 8–14, on the significance of this name; also J. F. Nagy , The Wisdom of the Outlaw (Berkeley, Calif., 1985).

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