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Fráech (Fróech, Fraích, Fraoch) is a
Connacht hero and
demigod in the
Ulster Cycle of
Irish mythology. He is the
nephew of Boann,
goddess of the river...
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mortal Fráech. In that story,
Fráech's people tell him to go
visit his mother's
sister Boand to
receive the
raiment of the Sídhe.
Boand then
gives Fráech fifty...
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brought back
Fráech's cattle and family. She
advised them to go to the
woman who
tended the cows, who
warned them that the fort
where Fráech's wife was kept...
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Fráech mac
Finchada or Fróech mac
Findchado (died 495) was a king of Leinster.
Fráech was a
member of the Dál
Messin Corb dynasty's prin****l sub-sept...
- 52–61 "Revue celtique". Paris. 1870. A. H.
Leahy (ed. & trans.), "Tain Bo
Fraech"
Archived 30
December 2013 at the
Wayback Machine,
Heroic Romances of Ireland...
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translation this
would read 'of
Fraech, son of Medb',
Fraech being ****ociated with
Cruachan and Medb in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Fraech is also ****ociated with the...
- by Cú Chulainn's Gáe Bulg. In the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Finnabair's
husband Fráech (whose
story is told in the Táin Bo Fraích) is
killed by Cú
Chulainn in...
- out "The Hand and the Child" as a parallel.
Carney also sees the Táin Bó
Fráech story (where a half-fairy hero
fights a
dragon in the "Black Pool (Dubh...
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demands that
Fraech tell
where the ring came from, and
Fraech lies,
saying he
found it in the
salmon and not before.
Despite the lie,
Fraech and Findabair...
- The
Exile of the Sons of
Usnech The
Dream of Óengus The
Cattle Raid of
Fráech The Raid for the
Cattle of
Regamon The Raid for Dartaid's
Cattle The Driving...
