Dalan

Role: Druid of Eochaid · First appears: The Courtship of Etain · Egerton Version · Part 2

Life events

• In the Egerton version, Dalan's ogham revealed that Etain was in Bri Leith and Mider had taken her there.(The Courtship of Etain · Egerton Version · Part 2 · 📍 Bri Leith)
  • With: Etain Mider
  • “and thereupon he made three wands of yew; and upon the wands he wrote an ogham; and by the keys of wisdom that he had, and by the ogham, it was revealed to him that Etain was in the fairy mound of Bri Leith, and that Mider had borne her thither.”

The Courtship of Etain · Egerton Version · Part 2

• with Eochaid Airemm (Eochaid commissions Dalan to search for Etain.) “Then, at the last, king Eochaid sent for his Druid, and he set to him the task to seek for Etain; now the name of the Druid was Dalan.”
• with the son of Celthar (Chapter 003) (interaction) “and came to Bri Leith, where the son of Celthar had his palace.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Heroic Romances of Ireland. Made with Rho MD.