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📖 Ancient Restoration Etymology of Fianna: derives from 'wēd-nā', related to OIr. fíad 'wild, game, wood', OEng. wāð 'hunt' and OBret. guoid 'wild'. The ancient roving band of warriors functioned as sovereigns of pre-agrarian Celtic society, thus the connection to forests & the…

The Instructions of King Cormac states: "everyone is a fían(na) until he becomes a property owner" - This points to a rite of passage in medieval Ireland where a young man crossed from one community to another, from a member of a fighting band, to a settled farmer.