Gods and Fighting Men

Dubhlaing ua Artigan

Family: Gael · Role: young man of Munster · First appears: The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell

Life events

  • Aoibhell set her love on Dubhlaing ua Artigan.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell · 📍 Craig Liath)
    • With: Aoibhell
    • “And Aoibhell, another woman of the Sidhe, made her dwelling-place in Craig Liath, and at the time of the battle of Cluantarbh she set her love on a young man of Munster, Dubhlaing ua Artigan, that had been sent away in disgrace by the King of Ireland.”
  • Dubhlaing returned to join Murchadh and fight for the Gael.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell)
    • “But before the battle he came back to join with Murchadh, the king's son, and to fight for the Gael.”
  • Aoibhell concealed Dubhlaing with a Druid covering when he refused to stay with her.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell)
    • With: Aoibhell
    • “And Aoibhell came to stop him; and when he would not stop with her she put a Druid covering about him, the way no one could see him.”
  • Aoibhell offered Dubhlaing two hundred years of happy life if he stayed with her.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell)
    • With: Aoibhell Murchadh
    • “‘Stop with me, Dubhlaing,’ she said then, ‘and you will have two hundred years of happy life with myself.’”
  • Dubhlaing refused Aoibhell's offer, choosing not to abandon Murchadh or his good name.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell)
    • With: Murchadh
    • “‘I will not give up Murchadh,’ he said, ‘or my own good name, for silver or gold.’”
  • Aoibhell foretold that Murchadh and Dubhlaing would fall in battle.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell)
    • With: Aoibhell Murchadh
    • “And there was anger on Aoibhell when he said that, and she said: ‘Murchadh will fall, and you yourself will fall, and your proud blood will be on the plain to-morrow.’”
  • Dubhlaing and Murchadh returned to battle and died there.(The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell)
    • With: Murchadh
    • “And they went back into the battle, and got their death there.”

The Gods · The Ever-living Living Ones · Aoibhell

  • admirer: Aoibhell “And Aoibhell, another woman of the Sidhe, made her dwelling-place in Craig Liath, and at the time of the battle of Cluantarbh she set her love on a young man of Munster, Dubhlaing ua Artigan, that had been sent away in disgrace by the King of Ireland.”
  • courtship with Aoibhell “at the time of the battle of Cluantarbh she set her love on a young man of Munster, Dubhlaing ua Artigan, that had been sent away in disgrace by the King of Ireland.”

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