Rucht
Ochall's pig-keeper, named for a boar's grunt, whose pigs are sent home lean and who pays Friuch back the next year.
Overview
Rucht is named after a boar's grunt, and he brings his pigs down from the north when there is mast in Munster. Friuch's spell sends them home so lean that they hardly reach it, and everybody laughs at him as he enters his country. He says it proves nothing and plays the same trick on Friuch's pigs the next year, after which they are both dismissed and take bird shapes at Cruachan and at Femen. The text never says which name of each pair is his, or which bull he became.
It proves nothing
Connections
Related characters
- Friuch (friend and rival)
- Ochall Ochne (master)
Connected to
- Donn Cuailnge (the other pig-keeper)
- Fuidell mac Fiadmire (one of the two birds he recognizes)
Places
- Cruachan (where he spends a year as a bird)
- Femen Plain
- Munster
- 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.
- Rucht brought his pigs south to Munster when a great mast fell there. At Munster. 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.