Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe

Family: Ulstermen · Role: warrior · First appears: This is the Story in Order · Part 1

In “Here are His Boyish Deeds · Part 5,” Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe tells how Cuchulainn captured a wild deer alive and bound it to his chariot, then struck eight swans with a small stone and twelve with a large one. In “This is the Story in Order · Part 1,” Fiacha is identified as the son of Conchobar’s daughter.

In “Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan),” Fiacha leapt from his chariot when Gaile-dana and Glas Mac Delgna and the other attackers threatened Cuchulainn, and struck off the arms of twenty-nine of them. Cuchulainn called it “help at the nick of time.”

Relationship record

Life events

• In Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe's account, Cuchulainn captured a wild deer alive and bound it to his chariot.(Here are His Boyish Deeds · Part 5 · 📍 Sliab Fuait)
  • With: Cuchulainn
  • “'Cuchulainn sprang down and seized the deer that was nearest, and that was the finest of them. He lashed the horses through the bog, and overcame the deer at once, and bound it between the two poles of the chariot.”
• In Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe's account, Cuchulainn struck eight swans with a small stone and twelve with a large stone.(Here are His Boyish Deeds · Part 5)
  • With: Cuchulainn
  • “'Then Cuchulainn aims a small stone at the birds, so that he struck eight of the birds. He threw again a large stone, so that he struck twelve of them. All that was done by his return stroke.”
• Cuchulainn threw the feat-apple that remained in his hand, so that it went between the rim and the body of Cur's shield and through his head.(This is the Number of the Feats)
  • With: Cuchulainn Cur
  • “Cuchulainn looked at him; he threw the feat-apple that remained in his hand, so that it went between the rim and the body of the shield, and went back through the head of the churl.”
• Fiacha struck off the arms of the twenty-nine attackers as they threatened Cuchulainn.(Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan))
  • With: Cuchulainn Gaile-dana Glas Mac Delgna
  • “He gave a leap from his chariot when he saw all their hands against Cuchulainn, and he strikes off the arms of the twenty-nine of them.”

This is the Story in Order · Part 1

• elder kin: Conchobar “Fergus Mac Roich in his tent was next to Ailill; Cormac Condlongas Mac Conchobair beside him; Conall Cernach by him; Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe, the son of Conchobar's daughter, by him.”

Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan)

• recipient: Cuchulainn “'What you have done I deem help at the nick of time.'”
• enemies with Gaile-dana “He gave a leap from his chariot when he saw all their hands against Cuchulainn, and he strikes off the arms of the twenty-nine of them.”
• enemies with Glas Mac Delgna “He gave a leap from his chariot when he saw all their hands against Cuchulainn, and he strikes off the arms of the twenty-nine of them.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge. Made with Rho MD.