Friuch
Bodb's pig-keeper, named for a boar's bristle, who withers his friend's pigs and later becomes a bird, a stag, a maggot and a bull.
Overview
Friuch is named after a boar's bristle and is practised in the pagan arts. When Rucht brings his pigs south for the mast, he casts a spell so that they will not grow fat, and the year after Rucht does the same to his. They spend two years as birds of prey, two under water, then as stags, warriors, phantoms, dragons and maggots, and the text never says which name of each pair is his or which bull he became.
I’ll cast a spell over your pigs. Even though they eat this mast they won’t grow fat, while mine will.
Connections
Related characters
Connected to
- Donn Cuailnge (one of the two pig-keepers he was before; the text does not say which)
- Fuidell mac Fiadmire (the other)
Places
- Cruachan
- Femen Plain (where his mast falls and he spends a year as a bird)
- Síd ar Femen
Appears in chapters
Appears in
- Ochall Ochne's pig-keeper Rucht spends a year here in the shape of a bird of prey, quarrelling with Bodb's pig-keeper Friuch, then a second year at the síd on Femen Plain. At Cruachan. In The Quarrel of the Two Pig-keepers, and how the Bulls were Begotten.
- Friuch and Rucht spent their second year as birds of prey at the síd on Femen Plain. At Femen Plain. In The Quarrel of the Two Pig-keepers, and how the Bulls were Begotten.
- Friuch and Rucht spent a year as birds of prey at the síd on Femen Plain, after a year at Ochall's síd at Cruachan. At Síd ar Femen. In The Quarrel of the Two Pig-keepers, and how the Bulls were Begotten.