Finnbennach
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Finnbennach, Findbennach, Finnbhennach, Finnbennach Aí, Finnbhenach, Fionn Bheannach, Findbeenach [Ir., white horn]. Queen
Medb's white
bull in
Táin Bó Cuailnge [Cattle Raid of Cooley], also known as the White Bull of
Connacht and as Whitehorn. According to a foretale to the epic, Finnbennach was originally a man named Rucht, swineherd to Ochall Ochne, who quarrelled with
Friuch, swineherd of
Bodb Derg. Their dispute was so bitter it survived their transformation into different forms: as ravens, water-beasts,
stags,
dragons, champions, water-worms, and finally as bulls. As a water-worm Rucht advised Medb to marry
Ailill; he was then swallowed by a cow and was begat as Finnbennach. But as he thought it unseemly to be born into the herd of a woman, he had himself born into the herd of Ailill. In maturity, Finnbennach's contest with
Donn Cuailnge, the Brown Bull of
Ulster, is central to the action of the epic; Finnbennach is eventually defeated, but not without severely wounding Donn Cuailnge.
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