Danes
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Jump to navigationJump to search"the tooath of the Danes" = the Tuatha De Danann, legendary pre-Gaelic inhabitants of Ireland decribed in the pseudo-history Lebor Gabala Erenn (the Book of Invasions)
The Tuatha De Danann later became one of the groups associated with the "fairy people" of Irish legend.
This sentence in Wake has several references to Irish mythological texts.
