Sadbh

Family: Fianna · Role: Finn's wife · First appears: The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother

Fear Doirche changed Sadbh into a deer for refusing his love, and she remained in that shape for three years. At Almhuin, Finn, Son of Cumhal took her as his wife. While Finn, Son of Cumhal was away fighting, Fear Doirche lured her from the dun and changed her back into a fawn.

Sadbh was forced to leave her child, Oisin, and follow Fear Doirche. As she looked back at the child, she cried after him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Fear Doirche transformed Sadbh into a deer for refusing his love.(The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother)
  • With: Fear Doirche
  • “And it is for refusing the love of Fear Doirche, the Dark Druid of the Men of Dea,” she said, “I was put in this shape.”
• Finn took Sadbh as his wife.(The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother · 📍 Almhuin)
  • With: Finn
  • “Then Finn gave her his love, and took her as his wife, and she stopped in Almhuin.”
• Fear Doirche lured Sadbh from the dun and changed her back into a fawn.(The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother)
  • With: Finn
  • “But no sooner did she touch it than she gave a great cry, and the shadow lifted up a hazel rod, and on the moment it was a fawn was standing on the grass.”
• Sadbh was forced to leave her child and follow Fear Doirche.(The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother)
  • With: Oisin
  • “And at the end he struck her with a hazel rod, and with that she was forced to follow him, and she looking back all the while at the child, and crying after him that any one would pity her.”

The Fianna · Finn, Son of Cumhal · Oisin's Mother

• married with Finn “Then Finn gave her his love, and took her as his wife, and she stopped in Almhuin.”
• child: Oisin “And the last time he saw the deer, his mother, the dark man was speaking to her for a long time, from softness to anger.”
• admirer: Fear Doirche “And it is for refusing the love of Fear Doirche, the Dark Druid of the Men of Dea,” she said, “I was put in this shape.”
• enemies with Fear Doirche “And the last time he saw the deer, his mother, the dark man was speaking to her for a long time, from softness to anger. And at the end he struck her with a hazel rod, and with that she was forced to follow him, and she looking back all the while at the child, and crying after him that any one would pity her.”

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