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Nantosuelta "Winding River".
A Gallic protective goddess and goddess of water. Among the Mediomatrici of Alsace she is often portrayed holding a model of a house, indicating a domestic function

Nantosuetta
A Celtic goddess worshipped in Gaul. She forms a pair with the god Sucellos. Her attribute is as cornucopia ("horn of plenty"), which refers to her aspect of fertility goddess. Occasionally she is represented with a cottage on her hand, which could indicate that she was patroness of the family. Nantosuetta was also a goddess of the realm of the dead

Nemausus
The Gaulish god associated with the Springs of Nimes. In later times he became the god of the city of Nimes

Nemetona
The Celtic goddess of sacred groves or shrines (nemeton, "shrine").

Nisien and Efnisien
Nisien and Efnisien, sons of Penarddun by Eurosswydd, who had captured her husband Llyr and held him hostage until she slept with him. They were twins, and half-brothers by Penarddun of the royal Bran, his sister Branwen, and Manawydan. Efnisien mutilated the horses given by the Irish king Matholwch as a bride-price for Branwen, for Efnisien felt that such a marriage was a mortal insult. This act nearly precipitated warfare, but Matholwch was appeased by the gift of a cauldron that could resurrect the dead. Branwen wed him, and went to Ireland, where she bore him a son, Gwern. But she was then imprisoned, and the Welsh had to go and rescue her. Peace was achieved through the efforts of Manawydan. Some Irish lords objected, and hid themselves in flour bags to attack the Welsh. But Efnisien, scenting Irish treachery, cast them into the fire, and then cast Gwern himself in (avoiding the geas against shedding kinsmen's blood thereby). A war broke out, and the Irish replenished themselves through the cauldron. Efnisien, repenting, sacrificed himself by feigning death and being thrown into the cauldron, which he then broke, dying in the process.

Nodens
The Celtic river god of the Severn estuary in south-west Britain.

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