King of the Floods

Role: king · First appears: The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1

Life events

The Lad of the Skins took the cauldron of plenty from the King of the Floods and fought his army.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1)
- With: Lad of the Skins
- “So his people did that, and no sooner did the Lad of the Skins get a hold of the cauldron than he made away to the ship and put it safe into it. But when he had done that he said: ‘There is no use in taking the pot by my swiftness, if I do not take it by my strength.’ And with that he turned and went to land again. And the whole of the men of the army of the King of the Floods were ready to fight; but if they were, so was the Lad of the Skins, and he went through them and over them all till the whole place was quiet.”
A voice warned Finn to return the cauldron to the King of the Floods or give him battle.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Lad of the Skins · Part 1)
- With: Finn
- “One day, now, Finn was washing himself at the well, and a voice spoke out of the water, and it said: ‘You must give back the cauldron, Finn, to the King of the Floods, or you must give him battle in place of it.’”

protégé: Lad of the Skins “‘That is true,’ said the king; ‘and give the cauldron of plenty now to this stranger,’ he said, ‘till he eats his fill.’”
enemies with Lad of the Skins “And the whole of the men of the army of the King of the Floods were ready to fight; but if they were, so was the Lad of the Skins, and he went through them and over them all till the whole place was quiet.”

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