Fingin
Also spelled: Fingin Fáthliaig
Conchobor's own healer, called to examine the wounded Cethern, who takes a fist for his honest opinion.
Overview
Fingin is Conchobor's own healer, sent for after Cethern has killed the first healers. He reads each of Cethern's wounds from a distance, tells him his life is done, and is struck across his chariot's two shafts for it. Cúchulainn calls that a wicked blow to give an old man, and the name Ochtur Lui is taken from it. Conchobor's muster names a Fingin from Finngabar, and the text does not say whether he is the same man.
Connections
Related characters
- Cethern son of Fintan (patient, knocks him across the chariot shafts)
- Conchobor (his master)
- Cúchulainn (warns him to watch out for Cethern)
Places
- Ochtur Lui (Named for the blow Cethern gave him)
- Smirommair
Appears in chapters
Appears in
- Cethern strikes Fingin with his fist and smashes his chariot, and Cúchulainn says it was a wicked blow to give an old man. At Ochtur Lui. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
- Fingin, Conchobor's own healer, examines the wounds of Cúchulainn and Cethern after Cúchulainn warns him to watch out for Cethern, who has already killed fifteen healers. At Smirommair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.
- Fingin offers Cethern a year of treatment and a full life, or strength in three days and three nights to fight his enemies, and Cethern takes the second. At Smirommair. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.