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Deoch

Deoch iníon Fhinghín

Daughter of Fingin, king of Munster: the woman of the south.

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She wanted the singing swans for her own, and sent her husband Lairgnéan to take them.

Kin and bonds

The Children of Lir A jealous stepmother, a druid’s wand, and four children who must live nine hundred years as swans.

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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