The High Deeds of Finn MacCool is a story that is closer to the type that typically has origins in which tradition?
The High Deeds of Finn MacCool The High Deeds of Finn Mac Cool is a children's novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and was first published in 1967. It is a retelling of the stories of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fenian Cycle. According to her own statements in the introduction, these stories are closer to Folklore and Fairytale, being timeless and contradictory, having organically grown from generations of storytellers; she contrasts them to the Ulster Cycle stories of Cuchulainn, which belong to the Heroic Epic, and compare with the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Elim Olfínechta Elim Olfínechta, son of Rothechtaid Rotha, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He succeeded to the throne after his father was struck by lightning. Snow that tasted of wine (Old Irish "oll", "great, ample", "fín", "wine", "snechta", "snow") is said to have fallen in his reign. He ruled for only one year, before he was killed by Gíallchad, grandson of Sírna Sáeglach, the High King who had been overthrown by Elim's father. The "Lebor Gabála Érenn" synchronises his reign with that of Phraortes of the Medes (665-633 BC). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's "Foras Feasa ar Éirinn" dates his reign to 787–786 BC, that of the "Annals of the Four Masters" to 1024–1023 BC.