Sreng

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

Life events

• 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: Eochaid (son of Erc)
  • “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.”
• Bres and Sreng exchanged spears so each side could inspect the other's weapons.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1)
  • With: Bres
  • “And in the end they made an exchange of spears, the way the fighters on each side would see the weapons the others were used to.”
• Bres offered the Firbolgs half of Ireland in exchange for peace, threatening battle if they refused.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1)
  • With: Bres
  • “And it is the message Bres sent to the Firbolgs, that if they would give up one half of Ireland, his people would be content to take it in peace; but if they would not give up that much, there should be a battle.”
• Bres and Sreng promised that they themselves would be friends whatever happened.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Fight with the Firbolgs · Part 1)
  • With: Bres
  • “And he and Sreng said to one another that whatever might happen in the future, they themselves would be friends.”
• Sreng struck off Nuada’s arm in the battle.(The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1)
  • With: Nuada
  • “But if Nuada won the battle, he lost his own arm in it, that was struck off by Sreng; and by that loss there came troubles and vexation on his people.”

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

• friends with Bres “And he and Sreng said to one another that whatever might happen in the future, they themselves would be friends.”

The Gods · The Coming of the Tuatha de Danaan · The Reign of Bres · Part 1

• enemies with Nuada “But if Nuada won the battle, he lost his own arm in it, that was struck off by Sreng; and by that loss there came troubles and vexation on his people.”

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