#and prefacing it with 'this isn't meant to be agressive

[hermits-that-craft]

(I’m going to preface this with I’m sorry if this comes off as aggressive or mean, I don’t mean it to be, just sometimes people getting Irish folklore wrong rlly frustrates meee, so now I’m going to aggressively educate you.)

(You didn’t even get too much wrong I’m sorrryyy)

The first two things are just names, like it’s the salmon of knowledge (not the salmon of wisdom) and his name is Fionn, not Finn (Finn is the anglocised version of fionn, but like it’s an Irish legend, teach people the Irish names ;-;)

And I’m just gonna leave out the whole first bit of the legend, because it’s not relevant, but Fionn didn’t even eat the salmon! The old man who he was with left Fionn to watch it while it cooked, and Fionn popped a blister with his thumb and then put it in his mouth because he got burned. The only thing that mattered was that Fionn got the first taste of the salmon, so he got all the knowledge.

I think this one depends on what version of the story you hear, but I’m pretty sure that he also only has all the knowledge when he puts his thumb in his mouth, because idk magic

Again sorry if this came off as mean! I’m just Irish and it frustrated me when people get our folklore wrongggg

it's all good

I do want to say though: im australian. ive never been to ireland, ive only ever left the country to go to italy for a student exchange.

So, although I knew that the last name wasn't 'mccool' and i knew it was 'mac cumhail' it didn't mean that i knew that his first name (which is more of a nickname in his stories to begin with - he's only called it because he wouldn't tell people his name so they called him blondie) was spelt wrong.

should i have researched it? probably.

did that give you a reason to rant in my inbox? no.

rant in tags. if it comes off as agressive, thats because this was what i woke up to.