Kings: F

In the Tain Bo Fraich: Fraich has curly bright glorious hair, cornflower blue eyes, red lips, white, smooth body, small chin, beetle black eyebrows. His mother’s sister Boann: Cow Goddess loans him 7 golden haired trumpters, 7 hounds with golden apples, 3 jesters, 3 harpers plus dark black-blue mantles, white tunics embroidered with golden animals, silver shields, golden jewel-tipped spears with bronze studs, torches, grey horses with silver plating & golden bells. Aillil: Poetry and Medb: Intoxicant threw their daughter Findbhair: White Trout’s fainne or: golden ring into the Croghan River. A salmon swallowed the ring and Aillil told Fraoch to bring a Rowan berry branch from the tree growing there. Fraoch swam back with a branch, but awakened the dragon. Fraoch cut off the dragon’s head, the red blood that spilled renamed the lake Bree’s Dublin: Dark Lake. Fairy women came to keen: lament, a healing broth prepared for Fraoch to soak in. The next day Find-abhair was cursed with a dying sickness after the dragon incident and Fraoch was told only the ring-eating salmon could restore her health. A broiled salmon in honey sauce with the ring on its breast appeared on a dish. Fraoch told Aillil he retrieved the salmon yesterday, hiding it in his mantle. He married Findbhair: White Trout, and later had to rescue her, his 3 sons, and his 12 white cows with red ears given to him by his mother when they were kidnapped by wandering bards and taken to the Alps. Fraoch: Heather and Conall: Reed went over the sea through North Saxony, south over the Ichtian Foam, and into the land where the Long-Bards have their home (Lombardy). The guardian tower snake wound around Conall’s girdle (others say arm) and spent the night with him. The next day they said goodbye to the snake and left for their own country with some of the snake’s jewels. Before Findbhair: White Trout, the goddess Treblann: Triple One was in love with Fraoch but she died. Fraoch died at the Battle of Graine: Battle of the Little Winter Sun and Eochaid Mac Coipre: Trout Son of Soul Cairrier was the winner. An eclipse of the sun appeared. Cill Fraocháin: Heather Church is at Dumhach, Loch Corrib, Galway, Ireland. It is described as the Cyclopean church of St. Fraochán with a square-headed western doorway. The ruin is in the middle of an ancient burial ground, surrounded by hollies and thorns. The clay was used to consecrate the Abbey of Cong: White Trout Abbey a.k.a Cill árd-chraobh na Naomh: Church of the Great Tree of the Sacred Trout In Saint Patrick’s time he is King of Munster with a royal palace at the hill of Cashel. His sons are baptized by the Saint. Gloss: Fraoch Mór (Great Fury) & Fraoch Beag (Little Fury) are swords carried by Manannán mac Lir & passed down to the love god Aengus Óg then to Diarmuid Ua Duibhne. In later legends the swords have slightly different names, their meanings remain the same: Moralltach (Great Fury) and Beagalltach (Little Fury). (58, 60, 181, 189, 245, 252)