Editing Lugh (section)

==Description==
Lugh is typically described as a youthful warrior. In the brief narrative ''Baile in Scáil'', Lugh is described as being very large and very beautiful and a spear-wielding horseman.<ref>''Baile in Scáil: The Phantom's Frenzy'', {{harvp|Dillon|1946|pp=11–14}};{{URL|1=http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/phantom.html|2=text}} via Celtic Literature Collective, accessed 5 August 2019</ref>

When he appears before the wounded Cú Chulainn in the Táin Bó Cúalnge he is described as follows:
<blockquote>A man fair and tall, with a great head of curly yellow hair. He has a green mantle wrapped about him and a brooch of white silver in the mantle over his breast. Next to his white skin, he wears a tunic of royal satin with red-gold insertion reaching to his knees. He carries a black shield with a hard boss of white-bronze. In his hand a five-pointed spear and next to it a forked javelin. Wonderful is the play and sport and diversion that he makes (with these weapons). But none accosts him and he accosts none as if no one could see him.<ref name=Tain>{{cite report |last=O'Rahilly |first=Cecile |year=1975 |title=Táin Bó Cúalnge |lang=ga, en |trans-title=The Cattle-Raid of Cooley |type=translation |department=Recension&nbsp;1 |website=Corpus of Electronic Texts |publisher=University College |place=Cork, IE |url=https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T301012/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=4 August 2019  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916223006/https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T301012/index.html |archive-date=16 September 2024 }}</ref></blockquote>

Elsewhere Lugh is described as a tall young man with bright red cheeks, white sides, a bronze-coloured face and blood-coloured hair.<ref name="banshee">{{cite web |last=Ó Dálaigh |first=Gofraidh Fionn |title=Ar an doirseoir ris an deaghlaoch |website=suburbanbanshee.net |url=http://suburbanbanshee.net/irishptr/irepoems/tabhasdo.html |access-date=4 August 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726115920/http://suburbanbanshee.net/irishptr/irepoems/tabhasdo.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In ''The Fate of the Children of Turenn'' Lugh's appearance is compared to the sun on several occasions. He is described by Bres as follows:
: Then arose Breas, the son of Balar, and he said: "It is a wonder to me", said he, "that the sun to rise in the west today, and in the east every other day". "It would be better that it wer so", said the druids. "What else is it?" said he. "The radiance of the face of Lugh of the Long Arms", said they.<ref>''The Fate of the Children of Tuireann'', {{harvp|O'Curry|1863|pp=176–177}}</ref>

Elsewhere in the same passage, the following remark is made:
: ... they were not long there when they saw an army and a goodly host coming towards them from the East, and in the vanguard there was one young man high in authority over all; and like to the setting sun was the radiance of his face and forehead, and they were unable to gaze upon his countenance on account of its splendour. And this is who it was - Lugh Lamhfhada Loinnbheimionach ... from the Land of Promise ... and when the ''Cathbarr'' (Manannan's helmet) was let off of him the appearance of his face and forehead was as brilliant as the sun on a dry summer's day.<ref>{{cite book |title=Oide Cloinne Tuireann |year=1901 |publisher=M.H. Gill and Son |location=Dublin, IE |page=67 |url=https://archive.org/details/fateofchildrenof00sociiala/mode/2up |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>