Red-Haired Man

Role: servant of Finn · First appears: The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey

Life events

• Finn promised to bury the Red-Haired Man on Inis Caol if he died before his service ended.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 Inis Caol)
  • With: Finn
  • “‘I am looking for a master for the next twenty-one years,’ he said. ‘What wages are you asking?’ said Finn. ‘No wages at all, but only if I die before the twenty-one years are up, to bury me on Inis Caol, the Narrow Island.’ ‘I will do that for you,’ said Finn.”
• The Red-Haired Man died after serving Finn for twenty years.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey)
  • With: Finn
  • “So the Red-Haired Man served Finn well through the length of twenty years. But in the twenty-first year he began to waste and to wither away, and he died.”
• Finn carried the Red-Haired Man’s body to Inis Caol to honor his promise.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 Inis Caol)
  • With: Finn
  • “But Finn said he would break his word for no man, and that he himself would bring his body there.”
• The Red-Haired Man revealed that he had enchanted Finn and the Fianna to avenge his mother and brothers.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 Inis Caol)
  • With: Finn
  • “But when they tried to rise up it failed them to do it, for there was enchantment on them. And they saw the Red-Haired Man standing before them in that moment.”
• The Red-Haired Man attacked Finn and the Fianna to avenge his mother and two brothers killed by Glasan.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 Inis Caol)
  • With: Glasan
  • “‘The time is come now,’ he said, ‘for me to get satisfaction from you for the death of my mother and my two brothers that were killed by Glasan in the house of the dead bodies.’”
• Diarmuid killed the Red-Haired Man and ended the enchantment.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 Inis Caol)
  • With: Diarmuid
  • “Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, that had heard the sound of the Dord Fiann, came into the house and made an end of him, and put an end to the enchantment.”

The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey

• employer: Finn “So the Red-Haired Man served Finn well through the length of twenty years.”
• enemies with Glasan “‘The time is come now,’ he said, ‘for me to get satisfaction from you for the death of my mother and my two brothers that were killed by Glasan in the house of the dead bodies.’”
• enemies with Diarmuid “Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, that had heard the sound of the Dord Fiann, came into the house and made an end of him, and put an end to the enchantment.”

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