Mongach of the Sea

Family: Lochlann · Role: son of the King of Lochlann · First appears: The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 1

In the battle at the White Strand, Mongach of the Sea was named as one of the three sons of Caisel Clumach of the Feathers, King of Lochlann, alongside Tocha and Forne of the Broad Shoulders. After his brothers fell, he rose and said he alone would seek satisfaction for them. He fought Fidach, who cut off his hands and then struck him in two; as they fell, a thorned flail-apple pierced Fidach’s mouth and brain.

Relationship record

Life events

• Fidach killed Mongach of the Sea in their fight.(The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2)
  • With: Fidach
  • “But he made a quick leap to one side and gave him a blow of his sword that cut off his two hands at the joint; and he did not stop at that, but made a blow at his middle that cut him into two halves.”
• Fidach died when a thorned flail-apple pierced his mouth and brain.(The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2)
  • With: Fidach
  • “But as he fell, an apple of the flail with its deadly thorns went into Fidach's comely mouth and through his brain, and it was foot to foot those two fell, and lip to lip.”

The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 1

• parent: Caisel Clumach of the Feathers (The King of Lochlann is identified in this passage as Caisel Clumach of the Feathers.) “Thirty battalions came with me to Ireland; and there are twenty of them fallen by the Fianna, and what is left of them is ten red battalions in good order. And there are eight good fighters of them,” he said, “that would put down the men of the whole world if they were against me; that is, myself, and Conmail my son, and Ogarmach, the daughter of the King of Greece, that is the best hand in battle of the whole world after myself, and Finnachta of the Teeth, the chief of my household, and the King of Lochlann, Caisel Clumach of the Feathers, and his three sons, Tocha, and Forne of the Broad Shoulders, and Mongach of the Sea.”

The Fianna · The Battle of the White Strand · The King of Lochlann and His Sons · Part 2

• siblings with Forne “Then the third son of the King of Lochlann, Mongach of the Sea, rose up, and all the armies rose up along with him. ‘Stop here, Men of the World,’ he said, ‘for it is not you but myself that has to go and ask satisfaction for the bodies of my brothers.’”
• siblings with Tocha “Then the third son of the King of Lochlann, Mongach of the Sea, rose up, and all the armies rose up along with him. ‘Stop here, Men of the World,’ he said, ‘for it is not you but myself that has to go and ask satisfaction for the bodies of my brothers.’”
• enemies with Fidach “Then the two looked at one another and used fierce, proud words. And then Mongach of the Sea raised his iron flail and made a great blow at the King of the Bretons' son. But he made a quick leap to one side and gave him a blow of his sword that cut off his two hands at the joint; and he did not stop at that, but made a blow at his middle that cut him into two halves.”
• parent: Caisel Clumach of the Feathers “Then the third son of the King of Lochlann, Mongach of the Sea, rose up, and all the armies rose up along with him.”

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