Finnbhennach

The domains array is empty. He is a possession and a rival and the sources give him no sphere, and the honest record of that is an empty array rather than an invented one. What he has instead is the most consequential ownership in the literature.

Relations

• killed and was destroyed by: Donn CúailngeReciprocal of the in-batch edge.Reference treatment of the two bulls' fight and its outcome. (secondary)
• owned by: Ailill mac MátaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Ailill record. It is also the only ownership edge in this batch, and it is here because the ownership is the cause: the whole war starts because one spouse owns this animal and the other does not.Reference treatment: Ailill possesses the Finnbhennach, a magnificent white-horned bull. (secondary)

Sources

• Finnbhennach is Ailill's white-horned bull, whose existence starts the Táin because Medb has nothing to match it, and who is killed by the Brown Bull at the end.: Reference treatments of Finnbhennach and of the Táin Bó Cúailnge. (secondary)