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The Gobán Saor was a highly skilled smith or architect in Irish history and legend. Gobban Saer (Gobban the Builder) is a figure regarded in Irish traditional lore as an architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Gobban. The ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' considers him historical and born at Turvey, on the Donabate peninsula in North County Dublin, about 560. In literary references, he was employed by many Irish saints to build churches, oratories, and bell towers, and he is alluded to in an eighth-century Irish poem, preserved in a monastery in Carinthia. In the "Life of St. Abban" it is said that "the fame of Gobban as a builder in wood as well as stone would exist in Ireland to the end of time." In ''Gobán Saor'' can be seen elements of Goibniu, the Old Irish god of smithcraft.〔("Goban Saor" in "The Oxford companion to Irish literature" )〕 His name can be compared with the Old Irish ''gobae'' ~ ''gobann'' ‘smith,’ Middle Welsh ''gof'' ~ ''gofein'' ‘smith,’ Gallic ''gobedbi'' ‘with the smiths,’ Latin ''faber'' ‘smith’ and with the Lithuanian ''gabija'' ‘sacred home fire’ and Lithuanian ''gabus'' ‘gifted, clever’.〔Blažek, Václav 2008, Celtic ‘smith’ and his colleagues, in Alexander Lubotsky, Jos Schaeken and Jeroen Wiedenhof (eds.) Evidence and counter-evidence: Festschrift for F. Kortlandt 1, Amsterdam–New York: Rodopi, 35-53.〕 ''The Wonder Smith and His Son'' is a retelling of fourteen tales about the Gobán Saor, by Ella Young; illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff (1927). It was a 1928 Newbery Honor Book. Two of Ella Young's retellings were reprinted by Collier in "The Young Folks Shelf of Books." ==References== ;Attribution * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gobán Saor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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