Laegaire

Also known as: Laegaire Liban · Family: Connacht · Role: champion · First appears: The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain

Laegaire, son of Crimthan Cass, went down into the lake after Fiachna, son of Betach, with fifty fighting men. He and his men defeated Goll (son of Dalbh) and his forces, then helped free Fiachna’s wife from the guarded dun and returned her to him. That night, Fiachna’s daughter Deorgreine was given to Laegaire as his wife, and his fifty men were given wives as well.

After a year, Laegaire asked to hear news of his own country. Fiachna told him to bring horses and not to dismount, whatever happened. When Laegaire returned to Ireland, Crimthan Cass offered him rule over the three Connachts, but Laegaire chose to return to the Sidhe kingdom. He was made king there with Fiachna, and did not come out again.

Relationship record

Life events

• Laegaire went with Fiachna into the lake, accompanied by fifty fighting men.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · 📍 the lake)
  • With: Fiachna
  • “Fiachna, son of Betach, went down into the lake then, for it was out of it he had come, and Laegaire went down into it after him, and fifty fighting men along with him.”
• Laegaire and his men defeated Goll and his forces; Goll fell.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain)
  • With: Goll (son of Dalbh)
  • “The two fifties attacked one another then, and Goll fell, but Laegaire and his fifty escaped with their lives and made a great slaughter of their enemies, that not one of them made his escape.”
• Laegaire's men secured the release of Fiachna's wife from the guarded dun.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · 📍 the dun of Magh Mell)
  • With: Fiachna
  • “The men agreed to that, and they brought the woman out.”
• Laegaire returned with Fiachna's wife and put her hand in Fiachna's.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain)
  • With: Fiachna
  • “Laegaire went back with her then till he put her hand in Fiachna's hand.”
• Deorgreine was given to Laegaire as his wife.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain)
  • With: Deorgreine
  • “And that night Fiachna's daughter, Deorgreine, a Tear of the Sun, was given to Laegaire as his wife”
• Laegaire refused his father's offer of the sway over the three Connachts and chose to return to the Sidhe kingdom.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · 📍 Ireland)
  • With: Crimthan Cass
  • “‘Do not go from us again,’ said Crimthan, his father, ‘and I will give you the sway over the three Connachts, their silver and their gold, their horses and their bridles, and their beautiful women, if you will not go from us.’”
• Laegaire was made king there along with Fiachna.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain)
  • With: Fiachna
  • “And he was made king there along with Fiachna, son of Betach, and his daughter, and he did not come out of it yet.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain

• parent: Crimthan Cass “And another that went to visit Magh Mell, the Happy Plain, was Laegaire, son of the King of Connacht, Crimthan Cass.”
• enemies with Goll (son of Dalbh) “The two fifties attacked one another then, and Goll fell, but Laegaire and his fifty escaped with their lives and made a great slaughter of their enemies, that not one of them made his escape.”
• married with Deorgreine “And that night Fiachna's daughter, Deorgreine, a Tear of the Sun, was given to Laegaire as his wife, and fifty other women were given to his fifty fighting men, and they stopped with them there to the end of a year.”
• patron: Fiachna “And at the end of that time, Laegaire said: ‘Let us go and ask news of our own country.’ ‘If you have a mind to go,’ said Fiachna, ‘bring horses with you; but whatever happens,’ he said, ‘do not get off from them.’”

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