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Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

  • Fionn mac Cumhaill, Find úa Báiscni
  • Irish poets, members of a fían (fénnidi)
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Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían


See also: Aí Ardúallach
Aí Ardúallach
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
daughter of Finn mac Cumaill

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Ailbe ingen Chormaic
Ailbe ingen Chormaic
(time-frame ass. with Cormac mac Airt)
daughter of Cormac mac Airt; wooed by Finn mac Cumaill in the tale of Tochmarc Ailbe.

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Blaí ingen Deirg Díanscothaig
Blaí ingen Deirg Díanscothaig
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
Daughter of Derg Díanscothach and the mother of Finn’s son Oisín.

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Bran, Sceolaing and Adnúall
Bran, Sceolaing and Adnúall
hounds of Finn mac Cumaill

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Caílte mac Rónáin
Caílte mac Rónáin
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
or Caílte mac Crundchon meic Rónáin, kinsman of Finn mac Cumaill and a prominent member of his fían; accomplished warrior and hunter; one of the protagonists of Acallam na senórach

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Cormac mac Airt
Cormac mac Airt
(time-frame ass. with Cormac mac Airt)
Legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Art son of Conn Cétchathach; contemporary of Finn mac Cumaill.

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Cúldub mac uí Birgge
Cúldub mac uí Birgge
Cúldub (mac (h)uí Birgge in Finn and the man in the tree; mac Fidga in Echta Lagen...), fairy thief and opponent of Finn mac Cumaill.

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Cumall mac Trénmóir
Cumall mac Trénmóir
(time-frame ass. with Finn mac Cumaill)
father of Finn mac Cumaill; a fían-leader who fell in the battle of Cnucha.

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Fergus Fínbél
Fergus Fínbél
(time-frame ass. with Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
In tales of the Finn Cycle, a poet in the retinue of Finn mac Cumaill, sometimes identified as a son of a certain Finn.

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Gráinne
Gráinne
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Cormac mac Airt)
daughter of Cormac mac Airt

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Mac Lesc mac Ladáin
Mac Lesc mac Ladáin
(time-frame ass. with Finn mac Cumaill)
A servant or aithech of Finn mac Cumaill.

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Mac Lugach
Mac Lugach
incestuously begotten son of Finn’s son Dáire Derg and daughter Lugach

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Muirne Muncháem
Muirne Muncháem
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
mother of Finn mac Cumaill; daughter of Tadg mac Núadat.

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Oisín mac Finn
Oisín mac Finn
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Saint Patrick, Cormac mac Airt)
A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature

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Oscar mac Oisín
Oscar mac Oisín
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
son of Oisín son of Finn mac Cumaill

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Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2016, last updated: July 2021