Lebor Gabala Erenn / 《入侵之书》

Lebor Gabala Erenn / 《入侵之书》 is the medieval Irish text named in 142. 凯尔特神话故事（第一弹）：德鲁伊会梦见变形羊吗？ as a major preservation layer for Celtic Mythology. The episode presents it as a 12th-century account that folds Irish origin and invasion material into a Christianized historical framework.

The source’s key example is the story of Cessair, linked to Noah’s family and the flood. That Biblical insertion does not make the older material disappear; it shows how manuscript culture preserved older Irish migration, divine-people, and settlement stories by translating them into a Christian chronology.

Key Claims

• The text matters as a layer of preservation and reframing, not as a simple transparent historical record.
• Biblical genealogy, flood narrative, older Irish settlement waves, and divine peoples coexist in the episode’s account.
• The text supports Myth As Historical Evidence only with caution: it can reveal identity and memory work, but not direct event certainty.

Connections

• Celtic Mythology - broader mythology field.
• [[TuathaDeDanann|Tuatha De Danann / 达努神族]] - divine people and invasion sequence.
• [[TuanMacCairill|图安]] - adjacent witness-memory story.
• Mythic Source Layering and Myth As Historical Evidence - method guardrails for Christianized mythic texts.