This hero twice lets water run through his fingers rather than healing Diarmuid (“DEER-mud”) with it out of bitterness at him for running away with Gráinne (“GRAHN-yuh”). For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Irish hero who burns his thumb while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge and leads the Fianna.
ANSWER: Fionn mac Cumhaill [or Finn MacCool; or Deinme; prompt on MacCool or mac Cumhaill]
[10m] Diarmuid is temporarily resurrected by the love god Aengus Óg after being killed by one of these animals. Ysbaddaden tasks heroes with retrieving a comb and scissors from one of these animals named Twrch Trwyth (“TURK TRUE-ith”).
ANSWER: boars [accept pigs or wild boars or wild pigs or swine or wild hogs]
[10h] Original-language term required. Gráinne forces Diarmuid to run away with her and to capture horses by twice afflicting him with these restrictions, another of which prevents him from piercing the skin of the boar that kills him. Cú Chulainn (“koo CULL-inn”) breaks one of these taboos when he is offered dog meat by an old man.
ANSWER: geasa (“GYAH-sa”) [or geis (“gesh”); or geas]
<Clemson B, Mythology>