Etain of the Fair Hair
First appears: The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2
Life events
- Osgar and Etain married after he agreed to her condition and sureties were given.(The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2 · 📍 Beinn Edair)
- With: Osgar
- “So they gave those sureties, and the wedding-feast was made, and they stopped there for twenty nights.”
- Finn directed Osgar to bring his wife to wide Almhuin for the first seven years.(The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2 · 📍 wide Almhuin)
- With: Osgar
- “‘Bring her to wide Almhuin for the first seven years,’ said Finn.”
- Etain died of grief for her wounded husband, believing his great shape was gone.(The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2)
- With: Osgar
- “and she went to her bed and her heart broke in her like a nut; and she died of grief for her husband and her first love.”
The Fianna · Oisin's Children · Part 2
- married with Osgar “And when Etain of the Fair Hair came to the bed where Osgar was lying, and saw the way he was, and that the great kinglike shape he had was gone from him, greyness and darkness came on her, and she raised pitiful cries, and she went to her bed and her heart broke in her like a nut; and she died of grief for her husband and her first love.”
- courtship with Osgar “And it is the way with her, she has a lover of the men of the Fianna.”
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Extracted from the original text of Gods and Fighting Men. Made with Rho MD.