Oisín

The narrator of the cycle, which the corpus held no part of — the same fault lane 17 found with Sanjaya and the Bhagavad Gita, in a different literature. That the framing device of a whole body of literature is itself a character, and that the registry held neither the character nor the literature, is the pattern this programme keeps finding stated twice in two days.

Parentage

• parent: Fionn mac Cumhaill
• parent: Sadhbh

Children

• Oscar

Domains

• poetry

Relations

• consort of: NiamhReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Oisín and Niamh crossing the sea to Tír na nÓg and living there three hundred years. (secondary)
• received by: Saint PatrickIn-batch. The single most consequential relation in the Irish material, and the reason a registry should hold both: the pagan cycle is written down by Christian monks and the tradition itself dramatises the handover as one old man telling another what the world used to be.Reference treatment: Saint Patrick sat with Oisin and listened to his story. (secondary)

Sources

• Oisín is Fionn's son by Sadhbh, the poet who narrates the Fenian Cycle, who spends three hundred years in Tír na nÓg with Niamh and ages them all in seconds on touching Irish ground, and who tells his story to Saint Patrick.: Reference treatments of Oisín, of Niamh and Tír na nÓg, and of Oisín and Saint Patrick. (secondary)