Befind

Also known as: Fraech's mother (Táin Bó Fraích) / his mother · Family: Side · Role: Fraech's mother; sister of Boand · First appears: Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 1

Befind was Fraech’s mother and a sister of Boand. In Part 1 of Táin Bó Fraích, she gave Fraech twelve white-eared cows from the fairy mound. In Part 2, at Cruachan, Fraech heard his mother and the women of Boand calling; they took him away, and he returned whole.

In Part 4, the tale says that Fraech’s cows, wife, and three sons had been stolen and were in the mountain of Elpa.

Relationship record

Life events

• Befind gave Fraech twelve white-eared cows from the fairy mound.(Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 1)
  • With: Fraech
  • “His mother gave him twelve cows out of the Sid (the fairy mound), they are white-eared.”
• Fraech’s mother and the women of Boand take him away, and he returns whole.(Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 2 · 📍 Cruachan)
  • With: Fraech
  • “‘Lift me out of it,’ he says to his people; ‘this is the cry of my mother and of the women of Boand.’ He is lifted out at this, and he is brought to them.”
• Fraech's cows, wife, and three sons are stolen.(Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 4)
  • With: Fraech
  • “Thy cows have been stolen, and thy three sons, and thy wife, so that they are in the mountain of Elpa.”

Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 1

• child: Fraech “FRAECH, son of Idath of the men of Connaught, a son he to Befind from”
• siblings with Boand “a sister she to Boand.”

Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 2

• child: Fraech “‘Lift me out of it,’ he says to his people; ‘this is the cry of my mother and of the women of Boand.’”

Táin Bó Fraích · Literal Translation · Part 4

• child: Fraech “His mother came to him.”

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Extracted from the original text of Heroic Romances of Ireland. Made with Rho MD.