Talk:Fionn mac Cumhaill/@comment-27346922-20180118195619

Finn MacCool is a very storied personage with a lot of heroic adventures under his belt. When the Knights of Fianna were having trouble with an evil god that kept putting them to sleep and messing with them, the young Fionn proved himself by standing vigil through the night and stabbing himself in the face with heated spear tip in order to stay awake through the sleep enchantment, and then defeated the god in combat, proving himself worthy of succeeding his father's place as knight commander. He has a lot of impressive tales as well as three somewhat tragic romances, and his son Oisin is probably one of the most awesome people of all Celtic mythology, but this motherfucker spooked me on Bryn's banner so I'm going to share the story of the Giant's Causeway out of spite.

There once was a giant named Benandonner living up in the Scottish islands who made it a sport to threaten Ireland, so Fionn took it upon himself to deal with it, but when he saw just how massive and dangerous Benandonner was Fionn bid a hasty retreat and ran back home. Unfortunately having seen him and eager to claim both Fionn's life and his fame, the giant followed him, attempting to hunt him down to do battle. While the giant is preoccupied with Fionn's friend Goll, Fionn hatches the clever plan to have his wife dress him up like a baby, and thus when the giant comes to Fionn's home his wife introduces him as the "infant son of Fionn". The giant, being a complete idiot, falls for this immediately and pokes at the "baby" as men do, at which point Fionn bites off some of his fingers. The giant then decides that if Fionn's baby was both this large and powerful, then the father must be an absolute monster, and so he ran off in fear, choosing to forgo his hostilities against Ireland thereafter.

And that's the story of how the heroic Fionn mac Cumhail defeated a giant by dressing up like a baby, no doubt inspiring many a Bugs Bunny cartoon in the future.