Fionn mac Cumhaill
TYPE CORRECTED UNDER TEST, and this is the THIRD LANE RUNNING. Fionn was authored 'demigod', which is how the tradition treats him; npm test rejected it as tier-classification drift, because this corpus computes the tier from DESCENT and his father Cumhall is a mortal. The same correction hit Ashwatthama in lane 16 and Shani in lane 17, in both directions. The rule is now understood and should be applied before authoring rather than after testing: in this schema `type` is a function of parentage and not a description of status, and a figure's tier is settled by who its parents are in THIS corpus. Oscar, two generations down, is a `quartigod` for the same reason. THE LARGEST SINGLE ABSENCE IN THIS TRADITION, and the registry had an era waiting for him. He is also the reason this lane exists: a corpus that files Cú Chulainn and gives the other great Irish hero an empty era is not neutral between the two cycles, it just stopped. The Giant's Causeway story, his Scottish afterlife as Fingal, and Macpherson's Ossian are not on the record, because the treatment consulted names the Scottish and Manx folklore and does not describe it.
Parentage
- parent: Cumhall
Children
Domains
- war band leadership
- prophecy and poetry
Relations
- student of: FinnegasReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Fionn went to study with Finnegas, the wisest man in Ireland. (secondary)
- succeeded: Goll mac MornaIn-batch and directional.Reference treatment of Goll mac Morna, who led the Fianna before Fionn. (secondary)
- betrothed to: GráinneReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the wedding feast at which Gráinne, betrothed to the aging Fionn, elopes with Diarmuid. (secondary)
- pursued: Diarmuid Ua DuibhneIn-batch.Reference treatment: they were pursued relentlessly by Finn's trackers, and Finn finally invited Diarmuid to the hunt on Benn Gulban. (secondary)
Sources
- Fionn mac Cumhaill is the leader of the Fianna, seer and poet, who gains his wisdom from the Salmon of Knowledge, is betrothed to Gráinne, pursues Diarmuid, and weeps once in his life at Oscar's death.: Reference treatments of Fionn mac Cumhaill, of the Salmon of Knowledge, of the Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, and of the Battle of Gabhra. (secondary)