FIN´CHOOM. Dectera’s sister, foster-mother to Cuchulain, 182, 183; mother of Conall, 243 FINCHOR´Y, ISLAND OF. 115, 116 FIND´ABAIR OF THE FAIR EYE-BROWS. Daughter of Maev; offered to Ferdia if he will meet and fight Cuchulain, 216 FIN´EGAS. Druid, of whom Finn learns poetry and science, 256 FINGEN. Conor mac Nessa’s physician; his pronouncement _re_ Conall’s “brain ball” by which Ket has wounded the king, 240 FIN´IAS. THE CITY OF (see Dana), 105, 106 FINN MAC CUMHAL (fin mac coo´al). Fothad slain in a battle with, 81; Dermot of the Love Spot a follower of, 123; Ossianic Cycle clusters round, 252; Oisīn, son of, 252; the coming of, 255; his Danaan ancestry, 255; Murna of the White Neck his mother, Cumhal his father, 255; Demna his original name, 255; put out to nurse, 256; origin of name Finn (Fair One), 256; slays Lia, 256; taught poetry and science by Druid Finegas, 256; eats of the Salmon of Knowledge, 256; slays goblin at Slieve Fuad, 258; made captain of the Fianna of Erin, 258; makes a covenant with Conan, 258, 259; Dermot of the Love Spot, friend of, 261; weds Grania, 261; Oisīn, son of, 261; Geena mac Luga, one of the men of, 262; teaches the maxims of the Fianna to mac Luga, 262, 263; Murna, the mother of, 266; Bran and Skolawn, hounds of, 266-269; weds Saba, 267; Saba taken from, by enchantment, 268; Niam of the Golden Hair comes to, 270; experience in the enchanted cave, 277, 278; Goll rescues, 277, 278; gives his daughter Keva to Goll, 278; “The Chase of Slievegallion” and, 278-280; “The Masque of,” by Mr. Standish O’Grady, 280, 281; the Hard Gilly (Gilla Dacar) and, 292-295; Grania and, 296-304; bewails Oscar’s death, 306; in all Ossianic literature no complete narrative of death of, 308; tradition says he lies in trance in enchanted cave, like Kaiser Barbarossa, 308 FINTAN. The Salmon of Knowledge, of which Finn eats, 256 FIONUALA (fee-un-oo´la). Daughter of Lir and step-daughter of Aoife, 139; Aoife’s transformation into swans of Fionuala and, her brothers, 140-142 FIR-BOLG. See Firbolgs, 103 FIRBOLGS. Nemedian survivors who return to Ireland, 102; name signifies “Men of the Bags,” 102, 103; legend regarding, 102, 103; the Fir-Bolg, Fir-Domnan, and Galioin races generally designated as the, 103; the Danaans and the, 106-119, 137 FIR-DOM´NAN. See Firbolgs, 103 FLEGETAN´IS. A heathen writer, whose Arabic book formed a source for poet Kyot, 408 FOHLA (fō´la). Wife of Danaan King mac Cecht, 132 FOILL. A son of Nechtan, slain by Cuchulain, 194 FOLL´AMAN. Conor’s youngest son; leads boy corps against Maev, 214 FOMOR´IANS. A misshapen, violent people representing the powers of evil; their battle with the Partholanians, 97; Nemedians in constant warfare with, 101; their tyranny over country of Ireland, 109; encounter between the Danaans and, 117, 118, 137