Dubh

Also known as: the Dark · Family: Fianna · Role: helper · First appears: The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey

At Teamhair of the Kings, Finn took Dubh, Dun and Glasan into his service, asking each to take a watch through part of the night. A hundred years ago, when strange men gathered with Finn’s stolen cup, Dubh drank from it and slipped away in the dark with the cup.

At Magh Femen, Dubh, Agh and Ilar offered Finn their service and friendship under their own conditions. Finn accepted and protected them despite the Fianna’s displeasure at their solitary way of life and wall of fire. About that time, the three young men gave the poets their requested fee in gold and silver.

Relationship record

Life events

• Finn took Dubh, Dun, and Glasan into his service.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey · 📍 Teamhair of the Kings)
  • With: Finn Dun Glasan
  • “So Finn took them into his service, and when evening came he said: ‘Let each one of you watch through a third part of the night.’”
• Dubh recovered Finn’s stolen cup from a gathering of strange men.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · Black, Brown, and Grey)
  • With: Finn
  • “Dubh was sitting near the door, on the edge of the crowd, and when the cup came to him he took a drink from it, and then he slipped away in the dark, bringing it with him.”
• Finn accepted the three young men's service and friendship under their conditions.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · 📍 Magh Femen)
  • With: Finn Agh Ilar
  • “So Finn promised that; but if he did there were some of the Fianna were not well pleased because of the ways of those three men, living as they did by themselves, and having a wall of fire about them, and they would have made an end of them but for Finn protecting them.”
• The three young men gave the poets their requested fee in gold and silver.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1)
  • With: Finn Agh Ilar
  • “And the three young men went to the place where the hound had his bed a little way off from the rath, and the hound threw out of his mouth before them the three times fifty ounces of gold and three times fifty of silver, and they gave them to the men of poetry, and they went away.”
• A young man filled the Fianna's drinking-horns with beer three times.(The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1 · 📍 the Little Rath of Wonders)
  • With: Finn Caoilte
  • “He filled the horns then with beer and they drank it, and he did that a second and a third time; and with the third time of filling they were talkative and their wits confused. ‘This is a wonderful mending of the feast,’ said Finn. And they gave the place where all that happened the name of the Little Rath of Wonders.”

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

• employer: Finn “So Finn took them into his service, and when evening came he said: ‘Let each one of you watch through a third part of the night.’”

The Fianna · Finn's Helpers · The Hound · Part 1

• friends with Finn “‘To enter into service, and your friendship,’ said they.”
• employer: Finn “‘To enter into service, and your friendship,’ said they.”
• patron: Finn “So Finn promised that; but if he did there were some of the Fianna were not well pleased because of the ways of those three men, living as they did by themselves, and having a wall of fire about them, and they would have made an end of them but for Finn protecting them.”

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