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	Cuchulainn
		Cuchulainns greatest deed was perhaps when he alone held back the forces of Connaught and had to fight his friend, Ferdiad, who was the champion and chief of the Connaught Knights of the Sword.
		As is the way with such heroes, Cuchulainn died on the battlefield.
		He was propped against a large rock whilst dead, with a spear in his hand and a buckler on his arm, and with such a defiant attitude was able to strike fear into his enemies even after death.
	www.ireland-information.com /articles/cuchulainn.htm (429 words)

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		Eimear was the wife of the Irish hero Cuchulainn and this crystal suite is a tribute to her as it reflects her beauty.
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	The Cuchulainn Cycle
		Cuchulainn is the central figure of the cycle, and its central episode is that of the Tain bo Cuailgne, or “Cattle Spoil of Cooley.” Other personages are Conchobar and Dechtire, Ailill and Medb, Fergus, Conall Cernach, Curoi, Deirdre, and the sons of Usnach.
		Emer’s words probably mean that she is “daughter of a king” and “a flame of hospitality” (richis garta.)[479] Cuchulainn, in visiting her, went from west to east, contrary to the apparent course of the sun.
		Cuchulainn’s “distortion” might then be explained as representing the bull’s fury in fight, and the folk-tales would be popular forms of an old myth explaining ritual in which a bull, the incarnation of a tree or vegetation spirit, was slain, and the sacred tree cut down and consumed, as in Celtic agricultural ritual.
	www.worldspirituality.org /Cuchulainn.html (3232 words)

	Cuchulainn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cuchulainn was born with the name Setanta, a son of Dechtere and either Lugh, Sualtam or a mayfly; he changed it after accidentally killing the smith, Culann's watchdog.
		Cuchulainn took the dog's place and guardd the pass into Ulster; he became known as the Hound of Culann.
		Cuchulainn was almost undefeatable in battle due to his spear (which sang for the blood of its enemies) and his warrior frenzy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cu/Cuchulainn.html (556 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Cuchulainn - Irish Mythological Character
		Cuchulainn, as he was now called, stayed on at Ulster with the boys' corps until he was a teenager, and then went to study combat with Scathach, a warrior woman on the Isle of Skye, who was renowned for her skill with the javelin.
		Cuchulainn took the spear gratefully, but he hoped he would never have to use it, since his skill at single combat was so great.
		Cuchulainn killed them all with ease, and Maeve's army was not able to gain much ground, until one great champion, Natchrantal, put up enough of a fight against Cuchulainn that there was time for Maeve to launch a quick raid and secure the Brown Bull.
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	Cuchulainn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One day Cuchulainn overheard Cathbad saying that whatever stripling assumed arms on that day would have a short life, but would be the greatest of warriors.
		Cuchulainn made the charioteer drive fast and far until they reached the home of the sons of Nechtan, each of whom he fought and slew, cutting off their heads; while on his return he killed two huge stags and then captured twenty-four wild swans, fastening all these to the chariot.
		From afar Levarcham, the prophetess, saw the strange cavalcade approaching Emain and bade all be on their guard, else the warrior would slay them; but Conchobar alone knew who he was and recognized the danger from a youth whose appetite for slaughter had been whetted.
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	Celtic Mythology
		Cuchulainn achieved his name at the age of seven when he killed the watch dog of Ulster belonging to Culainn', the smith and in return undertook to protect the kingdom of Ulster and its people himself.
		Cuchulainn refused, but Maeve secured his agreement to fight one of her heroes each day at the ford that lay between, reckoning that this was better than losing one hundred every night to Cuchulainn's sling.
		With great difficlulty, holding in his entrails, Cuchulainn tied himself to a high stone by a lake, baecause as a Gaelic hero 'he did not wish to die either sitting or lying: it was standing that he wished to meet his death'.
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	irish cuchulainn - the hund of ulster
		But the greatest, the most famed, and the most dazzling of all the heroes of this heroic age was undoubtedly CuChulainn, of whose life and wondrous deeds, real and imaginary, hundreds of stories still exist.
		Ferdiad is the great Connaught champion, chief, of the Connaught knights of the Sword, the Fir Domniann and a friend and comrade in arms of CuChulainn, since, in their youth, they, along with Conal Cearnach, "Conal of the Victories" had leaned well indeed, the craft of war.
		CuChulainn died as a hero should - on a battlefield, with his back to a rock and his face to the foe, buckler on arm, and spear in hand.
	home.fiac.net /marshaw/setanta.htm (2487 words)

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	cuchulainn pocket watch
		First called Setanta, he did not win his name Cuchulainn, until he slew a huge ferocious hound at the age of 7 with his bare hands.
		The embarrassed Cuchulainn was quickly put into the vats; the first one burst, the second boiled, and the third warmed.
		Acclaimed as the champion of Ireland in a beheading contest he was unbeatable and his skill was needed in his most famous campaign as told in the story of 'the Cattle raid of Cooley', where Cuchulainn single-handedly defended Ulster against Connacht's Queen Madb.
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	Myths from Around the World
		Unfortunately, Cuchulainn would have to advance alone — the Queen immobilized his army with a curse.
		She joined forces with Morrigan, goddess of war, whose love Cuchulainn had rashly spurned, and three sorcerer daughters of a warrior he had killed.
		A good Celtic myth, like that of Cuchulainn, always involved fighting, honor, love, or a quest, complicated further by oaths and obligation or magic and enchantment.
	teacher.scholastic.com /wrItewIt/mff/celticland.htm (242 words)

	CUCHULAINN'S INITIATION - Man and the Sacred - Patterns of initiation - Mircea Eliade, "From Primitives to Zen"
		According to the Old Irish Tain Bo Cualnge, Cuchulainn, nephew of Conchobar king of Ulster, one day overhead his master, the druid Cathba, saying: 'The little boy that takes arms this day shall be splendid and renowned for deeds of arms.
		but he shall be short-lived and fleeting.' Cuchulainn sprang up and, asking his uncle for arms and a chariot, set off for the castle of the three sons of Necht, the worst enemies of the kingdom of Ulster.
		But the exploit heated him to such a degree that a witch warned the king that if precautions were not taken, the boy would kill all the warriors in Ulster.
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	Heroes of History - Celtic
		As his life continued, Cuchulainn became such a beautiful youth that the Ulstermen feared that he would steal their wives and daughters, and thus began a search over all of Ireland for a wife for him, though he would accept none other than the daughter of Forgall the Wily, Emer.
		After having gone to Scathach, Cuchulainn learned the art of war, in particular the use of the Gae Bulg, a barbed spear that is thrown with the foot, that has to be cut out of its victim.
		At the age of seventeen, Cuchulainn defended Ulster from the army of Connacht in the Cattle Raid of Cooley.
	library.thinkquest.org /05aug/00212/celtic.html (729 words)

	RealMagick Article: Mythic Heroes of Celtic Ireland by John Patrick Parle
		Cuchulainn's original given name was Sedanta, and when he was young, the druid Cathbad warned him that if he took up arms he would become renowned down through the ages, but that he would die young.
		Cuchulainn's foster-father Sualtam hears this and gallops to Emain Macha on Cuchulainn's war horse, the Gray of Battle.
		Thus at the age of 27 years Cuchulainn died, leaving his face as pale as "a one-night's snow." A crow came and perched on his shoulder, a reminder of the vengeance of Morrigan.
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	Celtic legends: Cuchulainn. When the men of Ulster were "in their pangs", Cuchul...
		When the men of Ulster were "in their pangs", Cuchulainn defended the province against Maeve's invading army.
		The pangs were a curse that used to come over the Men of Ulster once a month, because they had ridiculed a pregnant woman while she was giving birth.
		Cuchulainn didn't suffer from them, because he was too young to be officially considered an adult.
	www.funtrivia.com /askft/Question71471.html (138 words)

	Celtic background characters: Cuchulainn
		Mebh was responsible for the fight between Cuchulainn and his best friend Ferdia by taunting Ferdia for not fighting his friend because of his cowardice.
		After Cuchulainn spared her life during the first invasion of Ulster, she invaded again seven years later and her warriors en masses defeated Cuchulainn by force of numbers.
		He was killed by Conal of the victories (Cuchulainn's foster brother) with a brain ball (a projectile weapon fashioned from the brains of a slain Lenster King).
	homepage.eircom.net /~johnnyr/sites/1998-celtic/back02.htm (491 words)

	'Cuchulainn' Hunter Pocket Watch from Kilt Store
		Cuchulainn: a great hero of Irish mythology, known as the Hound of Ulster.
		Originally named Setanta, he did not win his name Cuchulainn until he slew a ferocious huge hound at the age of seven with just his bare hands.
		Cuchulainn offered to take the dogs place and so gained his name which means 'the Hound of Culann).
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	Cuchulainn and Ferdia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cuchulainn and Ferdia had been foster brothers when they were training to be warriors.
		Cuchulainn was in the Ulster army and he and Ferdia had to fight each other even though they were friends.
		Cuchulainn and his chariot driver are fighting against the three rnagic spears of the three one-eyed witches.
	homepage.eircom.net /~kiltimaghns/cuchfer.htm (240 words)

	CUCHULAINN - Ancient Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Son of Lug, Cuchulainn began life with the name Setanta, but after he had killed Conchobair Mac Neasa's favourite guard dog, after it had attacked him, he vowed to take the place of the dog, guarding the pass into Ulster, and thus became known as the Hound of Cualainn.
		His hair bristled like spikes, with a drop of blood on the tip of each hair-spike, and from the top of his head arose a thick column of dark blood, that spouted like a geyser from his head.
		While the Men of Ulster were 'in their pangs', Cuchulainn held the pass into Ulster against hundreds of fighters, with the condition that only one man per day should come against them.
	www.mysticgames.com /mythology/CUCHULAINN.htm (165 words)

	Mary Meigs Papers - Box and Folder List 3 \| Special Collections \| Bryn Mawr College Library
		"Cuchulainn se met en colère / Cuchulainn kills more enemies, is presented with two beautiful virgins as a reward, refuses so angrily that he steams, is thrown into a vat of water to cool off.
		"Cuchulainn prend une forme effrayante / Cuchulainn is exhausted, meets and old woman and her cow, is given milk to drink and falls asleep.
		"Cuchulainn lutte avec Morrigane, la fée / The enemy fairy, Morganna, sends a gray wolf, a red cow, and an eel to kill Cuchulainn; he kills them all." Watercolor, pen and ink.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/meigsbox3.shtml (905 words)

	CUCHULAINN : The legendary mortal from Celtic Mythology
		CUCHULAINN : The legendary mortal from Celtic Mythology
		CUCHULAINN: Known as the Hound of Ulster, he was a champion tough-guy of many legends and adventures.
		CUCHULAINN's original name was Setanta — but he changed it after having destroyed the guard dog of Cullan the Smith.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/celtic-mythology.php?deity=CUCHULAINN (229 words)

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