Gráinne

She is the one who acts. The treatment is explicit that the geasa are hers, placed on him, at her instigation — which makes the most famous elopement in Irish literature a woman's decision and a man's obligation, and is worth a registry recording accurately rather than as a romance. The tale survives in many variants, all in Modern Irish, the earliest from the sixteenth century, with elements going back to the tenth; that dating is on the census rather than the record.

Relations

• consort of: Diarmuid Ua DuibhneReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the elopement and of their love becoming a true union. (secondary)
• betrothed to: Fionn mac CumhaillReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Gráinne betrothed to the aging Fionn at the wedding feast she elopes from. (secondary)
• protected by: AengusNon-symmetric, as on Diarmuid's record.Reference treatment of Aengus Óg spiriting Gráinne away whenever the pursuit closed in. (secondary)

Sources

• Gráinne is the princess betrothed to the aging Fionn who binds Diarmuid by geasa to elope with her at her own wedding feast, and is protected through the pursuit by Aengus Óg.: Reference treatments of Gráinne and of the Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne. (secondary)