Searbhan Lochlannach

Also known as: the Surly One of Lochlann · First appears: The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1

Life events

Searbhan Lochlannach guarded the Druid tree by night and stayed near it by day.(The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1 · 📍 the wood of Dubhros)
- “And he slept in the tree by night and stopped near it in the daytime, and he made a wilderness of the whole district about him, and none of the Fianna dared go hunt there because of the dread of him that was on them.”
A prophecy said Searbhan Lochlannach would not die until his iron club struck him three times.(The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1)
- “Very black and ugly he was, having crooked teeth, and one eye only in the middle of his forehead. And he had a thick collar of iron around his body, and it was in the prophecy that he would never die till there would be three strokes of the iron club he had, struck upon himself.”
Diarmuid made an agreement with Searbhan Lochlannach and received permission to hunt, provided he left the berries untouched.(The Fianna · Diarmuid and Grania · The Wood of Dubhros · Part 1 · 📍 the wood of Dubhros)
- With: Diarmuid
- “But when Diarmuid came to the wood of Dubhros, he went into it to where the Surly One was, and he made bonds of agreement with him, and got leave from him to go hunting in the wood, so long as he would not touch the berries of the tree.”

with Diarmuid (Agreement between them.) “But when Diarmuid came to the wood of Dubhros, he went into it to where the Surly One was, and he made bonds of agreement with him, and got leave from him to go hunting in the wood, so long as he would not touch the berries of the tree.”

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