Fionn mac Cumhaill, who is frequently anglicised as Finn McCool or MacCool, is a mythical protagonist from Scottish and Manx tradition as well as Irish mythology. In addition to being a poet and seer, he is the head of the Fianna bands of young travelling hunters and combatants. He is rumoured to possess a magical thumb that grants him vast wisdom. He is frequently seen using his spear and sword while hunting with his hounds Bran and Sceólang. The Fianna Cycle or Fenian Cycle (an Fhiannaíocht), which is largely recounted by son of Fionn, the poet Oisín, is made up of the stories of Fionn and his fiann. White, dazzling, glossy; fair, handsome, light-colored (regarding skin-complexion, hair, etc.) and judicious in morality etc. are all definitions of finn/find in Old Irish. The story The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn and other sources both detail birth of Fionn and early exploits. It is said that Cumhall, the head of the Fianna, had a posthumous son named Finn by Muirne. The Fianna were a group of combatants also known as a military order made up primarily of people from two competing clans —Clan Bascna (both Finn and Cumall belonged to it) and Clan Morna (to which Goll mac Morna was part of). The Fenians were tasked with protecting Ireland from foreign invaders and serving the High King. Goll mac Morna succeeded Cumall as the head of the Fianna after his downfall, serving in that capacity for ten years. It is widely held in the region that Fionn grabbed the Salmon of Knowledge in the River Slate, which flows through Ballyteague, when he first caught it. Fionn was an avid hunter and frequently went hunting with Na Fianna on the hill of Allen in County Kildare. At the age of Ten, Fionn accomplished a number of feats, one of which was the killing of Áillen, a fire-breathing member of the Tuatha Dé Danann who had been coming to Tara, the capital of Ireland, every Samhain festival for the previous twenty three years, soothing the men of the citadel to sleep with his music before destroying the city and its treasures. Following victory of Fionn over Áillen and successful rescue of Tara, his ancestry was acknowledged and he was appointed commander of the Fianna. [Information and Image Credit : Fionn_mac_Cumhaill , Wikipedia] [Image 1: Fionn mac Cumhaill encounters the old friends of His Father in the Connacht forests ; 2: Illustrations by Stephen Reid of Fionn battling Aillen by Beatrice Elvery in Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel (1914)] [Image 1: Availed Under faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art where the work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the life of author plus 70 years or fewer. The Work is also in Public Domain in the United States. Image 2: Availed Under No known copyright restrictions and the image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images] [Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property] [Source Image URLs : 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Finn_Mccool_Comes_to_Aid_the_Fianna.png 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heroes_of_the_dawn_(1914)_(14750481494).jpg ] #Mythology
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