Gilla Decair

Also known as: the Hard Servant · Family: Fomor · Role: horseman · First appears: The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 1

Life events

Finn agreed to hire Gilla Decair and let him join the Fianna as a horseman.(The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 1)
- With: Finn
- “I never did indeed,” said Finn, “and I will not refuse you.”
Gilla Decair released his horse among the Fianna’s horses, where it attacked and killed or maimed them.(The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 1)
- “The big man pulled off the iron halter then from his horse, and it made off as hard as it could go, till it came where the horses of the Fianna were; and it began to tear and to kick and to bite at them, killing and maiming.”
Gilla Decair carried Conan and the other men away on the horse.(The Fianna · Diarmuid · The Hard Servant · Part 2)
- With: Conan
- “And when Conan found that he was not able to come down off the horse, he screeched and shouted to them not to let him be brought away with the big man they knew nothing of, and he began abusing and reproaching them.”

employer: Finn “He answered that he had no knowledge who he came from, but only that he was a man of the Fomor, travelling in search of wages to the kings of the earth, “and I heard,” he said, “that Finn never refused wages to any man.” “I never did indeed,” said Finn, “and I will not refuse you.”

enemies with Finn (Gilla Decair carries Finn's people away; the passage also describes Finn following him.) “And when Finn and the Fianna saw the thirteen men behind Conan, son of Morna, on the horse, and he starting off, they shouted with mocking laughter.”
enemies with Conan “And when Conan found that he was not able to come down off the horse, he screeched and shouted to them not to let him be brought away with the big man they knew nothing of, and he began abusing and reproaching them.”

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