Eochaid (son of Erc)

Family: Firbolgs · Role: king · First appears: The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1

Life events

• Messengers told Eochaid that a new race had come into Ireland and settled at Magh Rein.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · 📍 Teamhair)
  • “Eochaid, son of Erc, was king of the Firbolgs at that time, and messengers came to him at Teamhair, and told him there was a new race of people come into Ireland, but whether from the earth or the skies or on the wind was not known, and that they had settled themselves at Magh Rein.”
• Eochaid's Druids interpreted his dream as foretelling a strong enemy coming against him.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1)
  • “Then King Eochaid took counsel with his chief advisers, and it is what they agreed, to send a good champion of their own to see the strangers and to speak with them.”
• Eochaid and his advisers chose Sreng to go meet the strangers and speak with them.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1 · 📍 Teamhair)
  • With: Sreng
  • “Then King Eochaid took counsel with his chief advisers, and it is what they agreed, to send a good champion of their own to see the strangers and to speak with them. So they chose out Sreng, that was a great fighting man, and he rose up and took his strong red-brown shield, and his two thick-handled spears, and his sword, and his head-covering, and his thick iron club, and he set out from Teamhair, and went on towards the place the strangers were, at Magh Rein.”

The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1

• parent: Erc “Eochaid, son of Erc, was king of the Firbolgs at that time, and messengers came to him at Teamhair, and told him there was a new race of people come into Ireland, but whether from the earth or the skies or on the wind was not known, and that they had settled themselves at Magh Rein.”

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Extracted from the original text of Gods and Fighting Men. Made with Rho MD.