An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Gráinne

Gráinne

Cormac’s daughter, who would not marry a man older than her father.

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Daughter of Cormac mac Airt, she refused every prince in Ireland and was then promised to the ageing Fionn. At the betrothal feast at Tara she put the king’s people to sleep with a goblet of drink and laid a geis on Diarmuid to take her away, and the two were hunted across Ireland for sixteen years. After Diarmuid’s death she sent their sons to learn war and avenge him, yet the tale ends with her at Fionn’s side until they died.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne Promised to the ageing Fionn, Gráinne puts the feast to sleep and lays a geis on Diarmuid to take her away. Fionn hunts them for sixteen years.

See also

  • Teamhair The Hill of Tara. Seat of the high kings, and of the stone that cried out.

Sources

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

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