An difríocht idir athruithe ar: "Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne"
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'''''Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Gráinne'''' ([[Meán-Ghaeilge]] Tóraigheacht) is a prose tale from the [[Fenian Cycle]] of [[Irish mythology]] surviving in many variants, concerning a [[love triangle]] between the great warrior [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]], the beautiful princess [[Gráinne]], and her paramour [[Diarmuid Ua Duibhne]]. Surviving texts are all in Modern Irish and the earliest dates to the 16th century, but some elements of the material date as far back as the 10th century.<ref name="MacKillop">MacKillop, ''Dictionary of Celtic Mythology'', ll. 410–411.</ref>
==An Tóraíocht==▼
Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne is a popular romance of a love triangle. Although the surviving text of The Pursuit of Díarmait and Gráinne is dated no earlier than the 17th century, there is a reference to this tale in the late 12th-century manuscript [[Leabhar Laighneach]].
▲==An Tóraíocht 1==
Fionn Mac Cumhaill, much older than in his other adventures, had several wives over the years. When his last wife died, his son Oisín and his companions one day asked Fionn when he would remarry. Diorruing suggested that the best woman for Fionn would be [[Gráinne]], daughter of [[Cormac Mac Airt]], the high king of Ireland.
Gráinne thought that she would be marrying Fionn's son [[Oisín]] or grandson [[Oscar mac Finn|Oscar]], not the aging Fionn himself. Disappointed to find that her fiancé was old enough to be her grandfather, she determined not to marry Fionn, but to run away with one of the champions of the Fianna.
Gráinne administered drugs into the wine of the guests save for Oisín, Oscar, Diarmuid, [[Caílte mac Rónáin|Caoilte]] and ''[[Diorruing]]''. She approached Oisín, who refused her request, then she approached Diarmaid. Diarmaid also objected to her advances because Fionn was a friend and his leader. Gráinne imposed a [[geas]] on Diarmaid that he must follow her. His friends were saddened, knowing that Diarmaid would die if he came between Fionn and his desired wife. Diarmaid left the palace, knowing that despite being a friend and follower of Fionn, his leader would hunt him down for the betrayal.
When Fionn Mac Cumhaill woke, he sent ''[[Clan O'Navnan]]'' to track down the fleeing couple. Diarmaid and Gráinne crossed [[Áth Luain]], and hid in the Wood of Two Tents. Diarmaid friends Oisín, Oscar, Caoilte and ''Diorruing'' were troubled by Fionn's behaviour and determined to secretly help Diarmaid whenever they could.
In the ''Wood of Two Tents'', Diarmaid had erected a fence around him and Gráinne with seven doorways leading to different directions in the wood. Fionn told his followers to surround and capture Diarmaid. Each of them offered to let the lovers through, but Diarmaid refused to allow them to compromise their honour by doing so. Aonghas, as foster-father and protector, wanted to help him, but Diarmaid insisted that he would leave on his own. Aengus took Gráinne away to the ''Wood of Two Sallows'', and Diarmaid escaped by using his spear to vault over the fence and escaped into the wood.
In the centre of the ''Forest of Dubros'' were magical berries from the rowan tree that could restore the youth of an old person, guarded by the giant [[Searbhan]] on the instructions of the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]]. Diarmaid and Gráinne asked Searbhan if they could live and hunt game in the forest. Searbhan agreed on the condition that they would not eat the berries. Gráinne asked to eat the berries. Searbhan refused and attacked Diarmaid with his massive club. Diarmaid used Searbhan's own weapon to kill him.
Fionn gathered the Fianna and travelled to the wood where he had a [[ficheall]] board set up, and played his son Oisín. Oscar and Caoilte assisted Oisín in the game, since no one except Diarmuid was a match against Fionn in this game. Diarmaid watched the game from above, and couldn't resist aiding Oisín in the game by tossing berries at the pieces. Fionn lost three straight matches to his son. Fionn realised that the couple were hiding in the tree and ordered men to kill his rival. Diarmaid killed seven warriors named Garbh. Oscar warned that anyone who harmed Diarmaid would face his anger, and escorted the couple safely away through the forest.
Fionn went to the ''Land of Promise'' to ask his old nurse [[Bodhmall]] to kill Diarmaid. Diarmaid was hunting in the forest beside the [[An Bhóinn]] and Bodhmall flew through the air on a flying water-lily and hurled poisoned darts that could penetrate his shield and armour. Diarmaid suffered agony where the darts struck him, but he killed her with the Ga Dearg.
Fionn pardoned Diarmaid after Aonghus Óg interceded on the couple's behalf; Diarmaid and Gráinne lived in peace at Ceis Chorainn in [[Contae Shligigh]] for several years. They had five children, four sons and a daughter. Diarmuid built a fort, [[Ráth Gráinne]]. However, they went for years without visiting Grainne's father Cormac Mac Airt and Diarmaid former comrades. Gráinne persuaded Diarmaid to invite their friends and relations to a feast, including Fionn and the Fianna. Fionn invited Diarmaid on a boar hunt on the heath of [[Binn Ghulbain]]. Diarmuid only took his short sword Beagalltach and his yellow spear, Ga Buí, not his best weapons. He was gored by a giant boar which had already killed a number of men and hounds.
Water drunk from Fionn's hands had the power of healing, but when Fionn gathered water he twice let it run through his fingers before he could bring it to Diarmaid. Threatened by his son Oisín and grandson Oscar he fetched water a third time, but this time he was too late. Diarmaid had died.
After Diarmaid death, Aengus took his body back to the Brugh where he breathed life into it whenever he wished to speak with the hero.<ref>{{
cite book |
last = Heaney |
first = Marie |
url = https://books.google.com/books?id=d5LC423kbSQC |
title = Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends |
publisher = Faber & Faber |
year = 1995 |
page = 211
}}.</ref>
==An Tóraíocht 2==
The story begins with the ageing Fionn, leader of the warrior band the [[Fianna]], grieving over the death of his wife Maigneis. His men find that Gráinne, the daughter of [[High King of Ireland|High King]] [[Cormac mac Airt]], is the worthiest of all women and arrangements are made for their wedding. At their betrothal feast, however, Gráinne is distressed that Fionn is older than her father, and becomes enamored with Fionn's handsome warrior Diarmuid (according to oral versions, this is because of the magical "love spot" on his forehead that makes him irresistible.<ref name="MacKillop"/>) She slips a [[sleeping potion]] to the rest of the guests and encourages Diarmuid to run away with her. He refuses at first out of loyalty to Fionn, but relents when she threatens him with a [[geas]] forcing him to comply. They hide in a forest across the [[River Shannon]], and Fionn immediately pursues them. They evade him several times with the help of other Fianna members and [[Aengus|Aengus Óg]], Diarmuid's foster father, who conceals Gráinne in his cloak of invisibility while Diarmuid leaps over the pursuers' heads.<ref name="MacKillop"/>
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