Cairbre - Question for the Celtic Scholars

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In Dragon 283 it lists a "fantasy" Celtic pantheon. I wanted to flesh some of the Celtic ones out and use them in my campaign. I've searched some Celtic dictionaries that I have links for, but I cannot find this one.

Cairbre, God of Music (CG) (Chaos, Knowledge, Luck)(Bards)

Anyone know an alternate spelling that I should be looking for?
 

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Masked said:
In Dragon 283 it lists a "fantasy" Celtic pantheon. I wanted to flesh some of the Celtic ones out and use them in my campaign. I've searched some Celtic dictionaries that I have links for, but I cannot find this one.

Cairbre, God of Music (CG) (Chaos, Knowledge, Luck)(Bards)

Anyone know an alternate spelling that I should be looking for?

Talk about digging into the lame and obscure.
Cairbre (from Irish celtic mythos) is the Divine bard, son of Oghma and Etan.
The power of his poetic eloquence raised welts upon the face of Breas, King of the Tuatha de Danaan, resulting in the loss of his throne (Kings must be unblemished physically) when he insulted Cairbre.
I don't know if I have that issue of dragon, but there are many other more important gods they should have way before they used him.
 

These are what I located with a brisk search:

Cairbre
Carbry
Cairbri is an alternate spelling for modern versions of the anglicized name.
Coribirias, Coribiri, Coirpre, Carbury, Karbra

I wasn't able to locate any others, but that was a quick internet search via google.com
 

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