Geography/Culture: Celtic: continental, especially the Ardennes Forest.
Linguistic Note: Latin ardu-us, high, steep, difficult. Old Norse ardr, Gaelic arad, plow. Old French ardour, Latin ardor, heat; French ardeur, burning. Perhaps related English word: ardor (British ardour), arid, and you'd think, arduous.
Description: Goddess of the moon, woodlands, fertility, hunting and {perhaps} witchcraft; Tutelary Deity and Eponym of the Ardennes Forest; Matron of its trees and wild inhabitants.
To Whom Sacred: {forest trees}; wild boar (Her mount); a fine for every animal killed in Her wood; perhaps cat (European folk belief held the cat to be the devil GB.JGF 760).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• In the Black Forest She is known as Abnoba, *BNOB1, ----.
• Variant Arduinna.
• Variant Ardwinna.
• Variant Arduenna.
• She and in Her Black Forest form of Abnoba sometimes have the fore-title Dea, Goddess.
• Also called Devana, ----, by the Czechs.
• She is said to be an aspect of Roman Diana, Divine-Queen, presumably in that Goddess's identification with Greek Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, though etymologically it seems likely that Arduina is more directly related to Artemis, but see below.
• Also called Diiwica, ----, by the Serbs of Lusatia.
• Also called Dziewona, -----, by the Poles.