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CU CHULAINN (Lectures 25-27)<br>
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Cú Chulainn Pattern<br>
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Cú Chulainn Pattern<br>
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Cú Chulainn Pattern<br>
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gessa<br>
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Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn (1) Strange birds alight at Emain Macha on Samhain.
(2) Cú Chulainn catches a pair for each Ulaid woman.
(3) Birds charm Cú Chulainn asleep at a pillar-stone.
(4) In a vision, he is whipped by two women, one dressed in red, the other in green.
(5) Cú Chulainn remains asleep for one year.
(6) Oengus offers Cú Chulainn a cure if he will descend into the sidh to fight.
(7) Cú Chulainn descends, defeats underworld enemies.
(8) Cú Chulainn marries Fand, wife of Manannan mac Lir.
(10) Cú Chulainn returns/awakes, after promising to meet Fand next Samhain.
(11) Emer and Fand challenge each other for love of Cú Chulainn.
(12) Manannan mac Lir administers a potion of forgetfulness.<br>
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Synopsis of Táin (1) Conchobar mac Nessa becomes king of Ulaid.
(2) Crunniuc boasts that even though pregnant, his wife Macha can outrun Conchobor's horses.
(3) She wins, but then dies as she delivers twins and the curse of the noínden.
(4) Cú Chulainn born.
(5) Cú Chulainn trained by Scáthach.
(6) Cú Chulainn kills his own son Connla.
(7) Queen Medb of Connaught invades Ulaid to steal the finest bull in Ireland.
(8) The Ulaid men are stricken with the noínden.
(9) Cú Chulainn single-handedly defends Ulaid against Connaught’s best men.
(10) Cú Chulainn fights and kills his foster-brother Ferdiad.
(11) Cú Chulainn successfully beats back army of Connaught.<br>
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Death of Ferdiad (1) Ferdiad and Cú Chulainn evenly matched: Ferdiad covered with impenetrable bone armor/skin; Cú Chulainn armed with gae Bolga, which pierces everything.
(2) Ferdiad shamed into fighting Cú Chulainn, and vice-versa.
(3) Ferdiad and Cú Chulainn fight chivalrous duels on three days.
(4) Cú Chulainn kills Ferdiad with gae Bolga.
(5) Cú Chulainn mourns death of Ferdiad.<br>
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Death of Cú Chulainn (1) Cú Chulainn kills Fomoire Cailitin (body merged with that of 27 sons)
(2) Wife of Cailitin bears 3 daughters and 3 sons.
(3) Medb mutilates children (one arm, one leg, one eye) and trains them in druidic magic for 17 years.
(4) 3 hags offer Cú Chulainn meal of dog meat; hand that touches it withers.
(5) Lugaid mac con Roí tricks Cú Chulainn into giving up his weapons by calling him uncharitable.
(6) Wounded Cú Chulainn ties himself to pillar-stone.
(7) Lugaid mac con Roí beheads Cú Chulainn to avenge death of Cú Roi. (8) Conall Cernach beheads Lugaid mac con Roí to avenge death of Cú Chulainn.<br>
