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	Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site
		1151 CE - The Rape of Derbforgaill (Dervorgilla)
		Dairmait Mac Murchada (Dermot MacMurrough), king of Leinster, became involved with Derbforgaill (Dervorgilla), a princess of Meath, daughter of Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn and the wife of Tigernán Ua Ruairk (Tiernan "One Eyed" O'Rourke), king of Bréifne (present Cavan & Leitrim).
		Derbforgaill was then captured by Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair (Turloch O'Connor), the Ard Rí, and returned to her husband; but Tigernán would not forgive Dairmait.
	www.clannada.org /time_1151.php (321 words)

	Lugaid Riab nDerg: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lugaid married Derbforgaill, a princess from Scandinavia (Scandinavia: A group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian).
		One winter the women of Ulster held a competition in which they tried to send their urine (urine: Liquid excretory product) furthest into a pillar of snow (snow: A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground), saying that the winner would be the most sexually attractive.
		Derbforgaill won, and out of jealousy the other women beat and mutilated her.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/lugaid_riab_nderg1 (478 words)

	Dermot MacMurrough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diarmait Mac Murchada (also known as Diarmait na nGall, "Dermot of the Foreigners"), anglicized as Dermot MacMurrough (died 1 January 1171) was the King of Leinster, and is often considered to have been the most notorious traitor in Irish history.
		Mac Murchada also abducted Ua Ruairc's wife Derbforgaill along with all her furniture and goods, with the aid of Derbforgaill's brother, a future pretender to the kingship of Meath.
		After the death of the famous High King Brian Boru in 1014, Ireland was at almost constant civil war for two centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diarmuid_MacMorrough (1149 words)

	The Ulster Cycle \| The Death of Derbforgaill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Derbforgaill is introduced in Part 5 of The Wooing of Emer as a daughter of the king of the Western Isles whom Cú Chulainn rescues from the Fomóire, and who later follows him to Ireland.
		Carl Marstrander (1911), "The Deaths of Lugaid and Derbforgaill", Ériu 5, pp.
		The women said, 'If the men knew about this, no woman would be loved compared to her.' So they plucked out her eyes, and cut off her nose, and her ears, and her hair, and the flesh of her thighs.
	www.paddybrown.co.uk /ulstercycle/derbf-d.html (591 words)

	Baudiš - On Tochmarc Emere
		We must not suppose, however, that these contaminations were always intentional or due to the compilatory zeal of the scholar, for even the illiterate storyteller has them.
		As for Cuchulinn's attitude to Derbforgaill, it may be observed that in the Esthonian Strong Man story as represented in Kalevipoeg (Canto 13–14) the hero does not marry any of the liberated maidens, but leaves them to their friends
		On the other hand, it is also quite clear that the literary compiler would work in all that he had heard of Cuchulinn and his journey to Scáthach and Aife, and would naturally try to harmonise different versions.
	www.volny.cz /enelen/baud/baud1923a.htm (3876 words)

	The Ulster Cycle - The Wooing of Emer
		This episode continues in The Death of Derbforgaill.
		'It is because Derbforgaill, daughter of Ruad, is being given to the Fomóire
		The king had a bath prepared for all his guests, and Derbforgaill was to bathe them.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /patrick.brown/ulstercycle/emer5.html (763 words)

	Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 813 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In Ireland, the form is recorded in the 12th century.
		We believe that , , and would all be appropriate names for a 12th century Irish woman.
		We also believe that would be an excellent name for an Irish woman from the 13th to the 16th century.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/813.txt (356 words)

	III. Scatalogic Symbolism, Urolagnia, Coprolagnia, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The legends which narrate scatalogic exploits are numerous in the literature of all countries.
		None of them succeeded, and they sent for Derbforgaill, who was in love with Cuchullain, and she was able to melt the pillar; whereupon the other women, jealous of the superiority she had thus shown, tore out her eyes.
		216-219.) Rhys considers that Derbforgaill was really a goddess of dawn and dusk, "the drop glistening in the sun's rays," as indicated by her name, which means a drop or tear.
	www.psyplexus.com /ellis/64.htm (8200 words)

	Lough Cuan Bowmen
		Derbforgaill, daughter of the king of Lochlann, (Norway) fell in love with Cú Chulainn without seeing him, because of the stories she had heard about him.
		So she and a handmaid of hers took the form of swans and flew to Loch Cuan with a golden chain between them to seek her beloved.
		Lugaid (of the Red Stripes) saw the birds flying overhead and challenged Cú Chulainn to have a shot at them.
	www.sixgolds.com /cuan.htm (2473 words)

	School of Celtic Studies - Tionól 2003, Abstracts
		This paper intends to redress the balance by discussing types of killing ranging from heinous crimes to self-defence in the light of other legal systems.
		Aided Derbforgaill has been attracting growing attention lately.
		However most of the recent discussions concerning the tale has to do with the very evocative subject matter of the narrative.
	www.celt.dias.ie /gaeilge/tionol/achoim03.html (1633 words)

	Swan
		The night Cuchulainn was born, a pair of swans wearing Otherworldly silver chains attacked Emain Macha.
		In a later tale, the Princess Derbforgaill fell in love with Cuchulainn, and transformed herself and her maidens into swans to be near him.
		A hunter by nature, he threw a stone at hone, none other that Derbforgaill herself, and brought her down.
	www.druidry.org /obod/lore/animal/swan.html (3805 words)

	Cú Chulainn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When a literal pissing contest proves Derbforgaill to be the most sexually-potent woman in Ulster, the other women mutilate her beautiful face, whereupon she dies of shame, Lugaid dies of grief, and in retribution Cú Chulainn kills all the women by crushing the house down on top of them!
		It appears that a Christian negative cast was put upon the love of Fer Diad and Cú Chulainn (horrible death in battle as a metaphor for anal sex is what we are to conclude?), and his marriage to Emer seems to be odd in many respects, perhaps another Christian invention which nonetheless took hold firmly.
		The statue of him in the GPO is one of the most recognizable works of art in Ireland, and everyone at least knows something about him and why it is there.
	www.liminalityland.com /cuchulainn.htm (3722 words)

	Battle of Dublin (1171 AD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Once more an out-numbered Norman force had held the field, but the high-king was gathering a huge army to beseige Dublin.
		Take the analysis and background with a pinch of salt though (for example, when Derbforgaill was abducted by Diarmait in 1152, both were in their forties, hardly the material for a passionate love-affair!).
		Please also note that it is a reprint of a much older book (1970?).
	fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/dublin1171.html (777 words)

	The Ulster Cycle - The Wooing of Emer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cú Chulainn's Shield is a short episode set during Cú Chulainn's training where he attempts to acquire a unique shield.
		Cú Chulainn's dalliance with the princess Aífe in chapter 4 leads to tragedy in The Death of Aífe's Only Son, and the consequences of his rescue of a princess in chapter 5 are found in The Death of Derbforgaill.
		Cú Chulainn has to face several of Scáthach's other pupils in combat during The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
	www.paddybrown.co.uk /ulstercycle/emer.html (360 words)

	Index of Names in Irish Annals: Der bForgaill, Derbforgaill / Dearbhforgaill
		Feminine Given Names: Der bForgaill, Derbforgaill / Dearbhforgaill
		What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time period, usually using older material as sources.
		Derbforgaill, inghen Domhnaill, mic Meic Lochlainn, ri Ereann, ben Toirrdhealbhaigh Uí Conchobhair, rígh Connacht, máthair Aodha, Chathail, and Domhnaill
	www.s-gabriel.org /names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/DerBforgaill.shtml (502 words)

	Clare Archaeological and Historical Society: Autumn/Winter Lectures 2003/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Life at Ballyalla House beginning of the 20th century and Industries associated with the house
		Queen Derbforgaill and the Coming of the Normans
		Long-term environmental change and the human factor: results of recent investigations of lake sediment cores from Co. Clare
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/cominfo/club_soc/historical/clare_arch_hist_lectures0304.htm (131 words)

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