Cethern mac Fintain

Cethern mac Fintain is the name of a legendary figure from the Táin Bó Cuailnge ( " The Cattle Raid of Cooley ") in the Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology of Ireland.

In the Táin Bó Cuailnge is told that the gray-haired hero Cethern unarmed trying to stop the army of Connacht under Queen Medb, as it is invaded Ulster and Cu Chulainn injured after the fight with Fer diad. He is so badly wounded that his intestines hanging out from the belly slit open and the separated strands of the heart in the chest herumkollert "like a ball in an empty bag ." He manages to make his way to Cú Chulainn, whom he asks to fetch a doctor. 14 ( according to another tradition, 50 ) Doctors find that he must die, whereupon he slays all full of rage with his fist. (Also called Fingín ) promises until the healer Began to help him, but he 'll either to one years have motionless in bed and was then recovered, he or choose a intensive treatment. After this he will receive back its old strength for the fight for three days and three nights, but would then irrevocably die.

The hero chooses the second path. Then Began preparing before a bucket of bone marrow ( smirom mair ), after its consumption Cethern sleep through a day and a night. During this time, sets him a spare ribs from the car body of a chariot instead of the broken own. Re- awakened, he intervenes in the battle and falls - as predicted - in a three -day battle, after he has done a massacre of the enemies.

The healer Began it was he who dealt with the head wound that King Conchobar mac Nessa had been inflicted by a stone 's throw from Cet mac Magach.