Gods and Fighting Men

Liban

First appears: The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1

At Beire do Bhunadas, Cathmann’s men captured Liban, daughter of Conchubar Abratrudh, along with her husband Tadg (son of Cian), Tadg’s brothers, and many people of Munster, and took them to Fresen. There Cathmann took Liban as his wife.

In the country of Fresen, Liban came gladly to meet Tadg, her husband and sweetheart. After resting, she returned safely to Ireland with Tadg, his brothers, and their companions.

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Life events

  • Cathmann’s men capture Liban, Tadg’s brothers, and many people of Munster.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1 · 📍 Beire do Bhunadas)
  • Cathmann takes Liban as his wife.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1 · 📍 Fresen)
    • With: Cathmann
    • “And Cathmann took Liban to be his own wife, and he put hardship on Tadg's two brothers:”
  • Liban comes to meet Tadg, her husband and sweetheart, glad to see him.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · 📍 the country of Fresen)
    • With: Tadg (son of Cian)
    • “Liban his wife made no delay, and came to meet her husband and her sweetheart, and it is glad she was to see him.”
  • Tadg, Liban, and their companions return safely to Ireland.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3 · 📍 Ireland)
    • With: Tadg (son of Cian)
    • “And after they had rested a while they faced the sea again, and Tadg and his wife Liban, and his two brothers, and a great many other treasures along with them, and they came home to Ireland safely at the last.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 1

  • married with Tadg (son of Cian) “And Cathmann, son of Tabarn, that was king of the beautiful country of Fresen that lay to the south-east of the Great Plain, was searching the sea for what he could find just at that time, and nine of his ships with him. And they landed at Beire do Bhunadas, to the west of Munster, and the country had no stir in it, and so they slipped ashore, and no one took notice of them till all were surrounded, both men and cattle. And Tadg's wife Liban, daughter of Conchubar Abratrudh of the Red Brows, and his two brothers, and a great many of the people of Munster, were taken by the foreigners and brought away to the coasts of Fresen.”
  • parent: Conchubar Abratrudh “And Tadg's wife Liban, daughter of Conchubar Abratrudh of the Red Brows, and his two brothers, and a great many of the people of Munster, were taken by the foreigners and brought away to the coasts of Fresen.”
  • married with Cathmann “And Cathmann took Liban to be his own wife, and he put hardship on Tadg's two brothers: Eoghan he put to work a common ferry across a channel of the coast, and Airnelach to cut firing and to keep up fires for all the people; and all the food they got was barley seed and muddy water.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Tadg in Manannan's Islands · Part 3

  • married with Tadg (son of Cian) “And after they had rested a while they faced the sea again, and Tadg and his wife Liban, and his two brothers, and a great many other treasures along with them, and they came home to Ireland safely at the last.”
  • married with Cathmann (The passage describes Liban as Cathmann's wife; later it also calls Liban Tadg's wife.) “Then they attacked the foreigners and got the better of them, and Tadg killed Cathmann, the king, after a hard fight; and Liban his wife made no delay, and came to meet her husband and her sweetheart, and it is glad she was to see him.”

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