Fionn-chosach

Family: Green Champions of Muir-na-locht · Role: king · First appears: The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 1

Life events

• Fifty of the Green Champions died attempting Diarmuid’s tun trick, and the survivors returned to their ships.(The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 1 · 📍 the hill)
  • With: Diarmuid Dubh-chosach Treun-chosach
  • “But they said he was a man had never seen a good trick when he called that a trick; and with that a man of them went up on the tun, but Diarmuid gave a stroke of his foot at it and the young man fell from it before it began to move, and it rolled over him and crushed him, that he died. And another man went on it, and another after him again, till fifty of them were killed trying to do Diarmuid's trick, and as many of them as were not killed went back to their ships that night.”
• Diarmuid defeated and bound Fionn-chosach and Treun-chosach.(The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2)
  • With: Diarmuid Treun-chosach
  • “And Fionn-chosach and Treun-chosach came one after the other to fight with him then, and he put the same binding on them; and he said he would strike the heads off them, only he thought it a worse punishment to leave them in those bonds.”
• The surviving Green Champions tried to free their bound leaders, but their efforts tightened the bonds.(The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2 · 📍 the hill)
  • With: Dubh-chosach Treun-chosach
  • “As to the strangers, as many of them as were alive yet, they came to the hill where their three leaders were bound, and they thought to loose them; but it is the way those bonds were, all they did by meddling with them was to draw them tighter.”

The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 1

• enemies with Diarmuid (Fionn-chosach is one of the kings sent to hinder Diarmuid.) “Three kings we are of the Green Champions of Muir-na-locht,” said they; “and Finn, son of Cumhal, sent looking for us by cause of a thief of the woods, and an enemy of his own that has gone hiding from him; and it is to hinder him we are come.”

The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Green Champions · Part 2

• enemies with Diarmuid “And Fionn-chosach and Treun-chosach came one after the other to fight with him then, and he put the same binding on them;”

Also listed in Green Champions of Muir-na-locht — Minor Figures

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