An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Mongán

Mongán mac Fiachnai

The son Manannán foretold, born to a mortal mother.

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Out on the sea, Manannán told Bran that he was bound for Ireland, to Caíntigern in Mag Line, and that she would bear him a son whom her husband Fiachna would call his own. The boy would take the shape of every beast: a stag with silver antlers, a salmon, a seal, a swan. A stone from the sea would kill him. The Annals of Clonmacnoise record a real Mongán son of Fiachna, killed with a stone, under the year 624, and in another tale, which Kuno Meyer printed with the Voyage, Mongán is Fionn mac Cumhaill born again.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Voyage of Bran Music puts Bran to sleep, and he wakes beside a silver branch in blossom. He is gone a year, he thinks. At home he is already an old story.

See also

Sources

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

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