| The Fenian Cycle | ||||||||||
| The Fenian Cycle was often called the Ossian Cycle. The Fenian Cycle was a collection of stories about warriors within a military order called the Fianna Eireann. It began durning the reign of Conn Cetchathach and Cormac Ait. | ||||||||||
| The Fianna lived and trained in the wilderness, they were spit into two different groups: -Bascna -Morna To become a member of the group you had to be a good athlete, have a gift of poetry, and would be tested---an example of a test would be warding off spears. |
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| Swirl me back home | ||||||||||
| When the Early Christian Monks rewrote the stories they made changes in order to make the Celtic gods look less "god" like--- this way the gods would appear stonger. | ||||||||||