Forgaimen
The herdsman who drives the Brown Bull and is trampled into the earth by Medb's cattle.
Overview
Forgaimen is the herdsman driving the Brown Bull and its heifers to Sliab Cuilinn. Ailill's men capture him with the bull, and at Focherd he tries to make off with it. They drive the herd after him into a narrow gap with the beating of shafts on shields, and the hooves of the animals drive him into the earth. His body is there still, giving the hill its name.
Connections
Related characters
- Buide mac Báin (Captured him with the bull)
- Donn Cuailnge (The bull he drives)
- Medb (Her troop drove the herd over him)
Places
- Cuailnge
- Focherd (Where he was trampled and his body lies)
- Sliab Cuilinn (Where he took the bull and fifty heifers)
Appears in chapters
Appears in
- The Morrígan, in bird shape on a standing stone in Temair Chuailnge, chants to the Brown Bull that death is raging over Cuailnge, and the Brown Bull tears up a trench through the land of Marcéni in Cuailnge as he moves to Sliab Cuilinn. At Cuailnge. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.
- Ailill and Medb and the troop that drove the bull meet again at Focherd after Medb's fortnight in Cuib, and the cowherd Forgaimen is trampled into the earth when he tries to take the bull away. At Focherd. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
- The Brown Bull moves to Sliab Cuilinn with his fifty heifers, with his herdsman Forgaimen driving him. At Sliab Cuilinn. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.