Caoilte mac Rónáin
Irish · mortal · fenian cycle · Recorded classification
He is the other half of the Acallam na Senórach, the Colloquy of the Ancients — the twelfth-century frame in which the survivors of the Fianna walk around Ireland with Saint Patrick naming places and telling him what happened at each. That text is how most of the cycle survives, and the corpus held neither of the two men who speak it.
Domains
- swiftness
- storytelling
Relations
- nephew of: Fionn mac CumhaillIn-batch and non-symmetric; the corpus has no 'uncle' kind and this says the same thing from the side the source states it.Reference treatment of Caílte mac Rónáin as a nephew of Fionn mac Cumhaill. (secondary)
- baptised by: Saint PatrickIn-batch. With Oisín's edge, TWO of the Fianna outlive their world and meet the man who ends it, which is the frame the whole Acallam na Senórach is built on.Reference treatment: Caílte lived long enough to be baptized by St. Patrick. (secondary)
Sources
- Caoilte mac Rónáin is Fionn's nephew, the swiftest of the Fianna, who talks with animals, tells stories, and lives to be baptised by Saint Patrick.: Reference treatments of Caílte mac Rónáin and of the Fenian Cycle. (secondary)