Gods and Fighting Men

Nechtan

First appears: The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran

Life events

  • Nechtan's longing for home prompted his kinsmen to beg Bran to return to Ireland.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 the Land of Women)
    • “And it seemed to them they were only a year there when the desire of home took hold on one of them, Nechtan, son of Collbrain, and his kinsmen were begging and praying Bran to go back with him to Ireland.”
  • Bran and his company set out to return to Ireland despite the woman's warning.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran · 📍 Ireland)
    • With: Bran (son of Febal)
    • “The woman said there would be repentance on them if they went; but in spite of that they set out in the end.”
  • Nechtan became a heap of ashes when he leapt from the curragh onto Ireland's shore.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran)
    • “Then Nechtan, son of Collbrain, made a leap out of the curragh, and no sooner did he touch the shore of Ireland than he was a heap of ashes, the same as if he had been in the earth through hundreds of years.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · His Call to Bran

  • parent: Collbrain “And it seemed to them they were only a year there when the desire of home took hold on one of them, Nechtan, son of Collbrain, and his”

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