An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Finnéces

Finnéces · often Finnegas

The poet who waited seven years for the salmon of knowledge.

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He watched the salmon of Linn Féic on the Boyne for seven years. When he caught it, he gave it to the boy Demne to cook. Demne burned his thumb, put it in his mouth, and the knowledge went into him instead. After that the boy was Fionn.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn A druid and a warrior woman hide a hunted boy in the woods. Years later a poet on the Boyne gives him a salmon to cook, and tells him not to taste it.
  • Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway The strongest giant in Ireland is coming for Fionn. Fionn’s wife has a plan, a cradle and twenty-one iron griddles.

See also

  • Brú na Bóinne Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. The mansion of the Boyne: a tomb older than the pyramids, and a house of the gods.

Sources

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

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