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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Finn Mac Cool

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Also Finn or Fionn Mac Cumhal (or Cumhaill); a warrior-poet hero of Irish Myth and last leader of the Fianna, an order of Chivalry comparable to the Round Table. Finn's ancestors included Fairies and Gods, but though unnaturally long-lived he was mortal; he had powers of Prophecy and is often described as a Giant. His "Fianna Cycle" exploits have been much retold and echoed as Celtic Fantasy – e.g., in Paul Hazel's Finnbranch and Kenneth C Flint's Finn McCumhail sequences – and he appears as a storyteller in Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds (1939). [DRL]



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