Madds the Mad

A rídh of Tír Skjold, supposedly living in the early Third Epoch. Purportedly went mad with power and became a cruel, self-obsessed ruler. He was deposed by a revolt led by the peasant woman Breitha, who was later voted the rídh of the island.

The entire saga is immortalised in the Ballad of Breitha, but that song is the only place where eith Breitha or Madds are mentioned. Still, the fír suthr count the events of this ballad as historical fact.