Diarmuid Ua Duibhne

The geis is the machinery of this whole cycle and the corpus has no way to record it: it is not a relation, not a domain and not an item, but a binding obligation that makes a person do something against their interest. Diarmuid is under one to take Gráinne and under another never to hunt a boar, and both of them kill him. That the schema cannot express it is a finding for the owner rather than a defect in this record.

Domains

• warfare

Relations

• consort of: GráinneReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the elopement and of their love becoming a true union. (secondary)
• pursued by: Fionn mac CumhaillReciprocal of the in-batch edge.Reference treatment of the relentless pursuit by Finn's trackers and the hunt on Benn Gulban. (secondary)
• protected by: AengusNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Aengus record. The corpus held the protector and neither of the two people he protects.Reference treatment: they were protected by the god Angus Óg, who spirited Grainne away whenever the net drew too tight. (secondary)

Sources

• Diarmuid Ua Duibhne is the Fianna warrior with the beauty spot whom Gráinne binds by geasa to elope with her, pursued for years by Fionn and protected by Aengus Óg, and killed by a boar hunt Fionn knows he is fated to lose.: Reference treatments of Diarmuid, of Gráinne and of the Pursuit. (secondary)