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...mself as Cú Roí, and announces that the Champion's Portion is indisputably Cú Chulainn's.<ref>George Henderson (ed. & trans.), [http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/bricriu_

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...brother [[Cú Chulainn]], but becomes the Ulaid's most prominent hero after Cú Chulainn's death. He has a bitter rivalry with [[Cet mac Mágach]], a warrior of the ...the challenge, but he too does not fulfil his side of the bargain. Finally Cú Chulainn cuts off the churl's head, and submits himself to the churl's axe the follo

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...the stud bull [[Donn Cúailnge]], opposed only by the teenage Ulster hero [[Cú Chulainn]]. ...nd-off lasting months. When Fergus, his foster-father, is set to face him, Cú Chulainn agrees to yield to him on the condition that Fergus yields the next time th

...[[Ulster Cycle]], where she has an ambiguous relationship with the hero [[Cú Chulainn]]. In the story ''Táin Bó Regamna'' ("the Cattle Raid of Regamain"), Cúc ...ame three wounds that her animal forms sustained, milking a cow. She gives Cú Chulainn three drinks of milk. He blesses her with each drink, and her wounds are he

...r king of the Ulaid in exile, and opposed only by the teenage Ulaid hero [[Cú Chulainn]]. Perhaps the best known story is the tragedy of [[Deirdre]], source of pl ...ral elements intrude from time to time, and heroic exaggeration is common. Cú Chulainn in particular has superhuman fighting skills, the result of his semi-divine

'''Cú Chulainn'''<ref>Also spelled '''Cú Chulaind''', '''Cúchulainn'''</ref> ([[Irish la ...nn's birth survive. The first, ''Compert Con Culainn'' ("The conception of Cú Chulainn"), derives from the lost ''Book of Druimm Snechta'' and thus dates to the e

...Mend Macha, and the most prominent heroes in his service are his nephews [[Cú Chulainn]] and [[Conall Cernach]]. His seat is at [[Emain Macha]], now Navan Fort, n ...gin, and they have a son, [[Conall Cernach]]. Deichtire is the mother of [[Cú Chulainn]], by either her mortal husband Sualtam or the apparent god [[Lug mac Ethle

...nd"), another Lugaid, [[Lugaid mac Con]] (son of a hound), and Lug's son [[Cú Chulainn]] ("Culann's Hound"). ...Cycle]] he fathered [[Cú Chulainn]] with the mortal maiden Deichtine. When Cú Chulainn lay wounded after a gruelling series of combats during the ''[[Táin Bó Cu

...ed in Ireland for about 2000 years and is mentioned in the Irish legend of Cú Chulainn. Its administrative body is the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or the Cu

...parts of Tara, implying that the stone had been lost and half-buried since Cú Chulainn's time. A [[druid]] explains that the number of cries the stone made is the

...nd her husband [[Ailill mac Máta]]. The chief hero is Conchobar's nephew [[Cú Chulainn]], and the central story is the proto-epic ''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'', "Th

...the Ulstermen, the invasion was opposed only by the teenage Ulster hero [[Cú Chulainn]], who held up the army's advance by demanding single combat at fords. Medb