Fiachna

Family: Tuatha de Danaan · Role: king · First appears: The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain

Fiachna, son of Betach and of the men of the Sidhe, told Laegaire that Eochaid, son of Sal, had taken his wife. They fought, and Fiachna killed Eochaid, but his wife was then with Goll, son of Dalbh, king of a people of Magh Mell. After seven battles against Goll, all of which went against him, Fiachna asked Laegaire for help in the next: “on this very day there is another to be fought”.

At the lake, Fiachna went down into the water with Laegaire and fifty fighting men. At the dun of Magh Mell, Laegaire’s men secured the release of Fiachna’s wife, and Laegaire returned with her and put her hand in Fiachna’s. Fiachna’s daughter, Deorgreine, was given to Laegaire as his wife, and Laegaire was made king there along with Fiachna.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eochaid took Fiachna's wife, and Fiachna killed him.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain)
  • With: Eochaid (son of Sal)
  • “And my name,” he said, “is Fiachna, son of Betach, of the men of the Sidhe; and it is what ails me, my wife was taken from my pillow and brought away by Eochaid, son of Sal. And we fought together, and I killed him”
• Fiachna asked Laegaire for help against Goll in the next battle.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain · 📍 the Plain of the Two Mists)
  • With: Goll (son of Dalbh)
  • “Seven battles I gave him, but they all went against me; and on this very day there is another to be fought, and I am come to ask help.”
• 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: Laegaire
  • “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'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: Laegaire
  • “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: Laegaire
  • “Laegaire went back with her then till he put her hand in Fiachna's hand.”
• Laegaire was made king there along with Fiachna.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Laegaire in the Happy Plain)
  • With: Laegaire
  • “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: Betach “And my name,” he said, “is Fiachna, son of Betach, of the men of the Sidhe; and it is what ails me, my wife was taken from my pillow and brought away by Eochaid, son of Sal.”
• enemies with Eochaid (son of Sal) “And we fought together, and I killed him, and now she is gone to a brother's son of his, Goll, son of Dalbh, king of a people of Magh Mell.”
• enemies with Goll (son of Dalbh) “Seven battles I gave him, but they all went against me; and on this very day there is another to be fought, and I am come to ask help.”
• child: 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.”
• protégé: Laegaire “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.