Red Woman

First appears: The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2

Life events

• The Red Woman changed herself into a water-worm and attacked Finn.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 1)
  • With: Finn
  • “He had no sooner said that word than the woman made a great water-worm of herself, and made an attack on Finn”
• Bran seized the water-worm and shook it.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 1)
  • With: Bran (Finn's hound)
  • “Bran took a grip of the worm and shook it”
• Finn thrust his sword into the water-worm’s throat.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 1)
  • With: Finn
  • “Finn thrust his sharp sword into its throat.”
• The Red Woman changed back into her former shape and went into the wood.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 1 · 📍 the wood)
  • “Then she made herself into a Red Woman again, and went away into the wood.”
• Finn refuses the Red Woman’s offer to take him to the Country of the Young.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2)
  • With: Finn
  • “‘We give you our thanks for that,’ said Finn, ‘but we would not give up our own country if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.’”
• The beast dies and is revealed to have been the King of the Firbolgs.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2)
  • With: Finn
  • “Then Finn and his men came up, but in place of a beast it was a tall man they saw lying dead before them. And the Red Woman came up at the same time, and she said: “High King of the Fianna, that is the King of the Firbolgs you have killed; and his people will put great troubles on this country in the time to come, when you yourself, Finn, and your people will be under the sod.”
• The Red Woman foretells that the King of the Firbolgs’ people will bring great troubles in the future.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2)
  • With: Finn
  • “And the Red Woman came up at the same time, and she said: “High King of the Fianna, that is the King of the Firbolgs you have killed; and his people will put great troubles on this country in the time to come, when you yourself, Finn, and your people will be under the sod.”
• The Red Woman disappears from sight after the white hound returns to her.(The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2)
  • “There was great wonder on Finn; but before he could ask a question of the Red Woman, she was gone out of sight.”

The Fianna · Huntings and Enchantments · The Red Woman · Part 2

• protégé: Finn (She arranges clothing and a crown for Finn.) “Bring water for washing,” she said, “and four times twenty suits of clothes, and a beautiful suit and a crown of shining stones for Finn, son of Cumhal.”

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