Conán mac Morna
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Conán mac Morna, also known as Conán Maol ("the bald"), is a member of the
fianna ''Fianna'' ( , ; singular ''Fian''; gd, Fèinne ) were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages. A ''fian'' was made up of freeborn young males, often aristocrats, "who had left fosterage but had ...
and an ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is usually portrayed as a troublemaker and a comic figure, fat, greedy and blustering, although he is loyal to Fionn and never runs from a fight.


References

*Ellis, Peter Berresford, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford Paperback Reference), Oxford University Press, (1994): Fenian Cycle {{Celt-myth-stub