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Cú Roí appears in the side-tale " Comlond Munremair & Con Roi " (" The combat of Munremar and Cú Roí ") included in Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge.
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Cú and Roí
While we may suspect a few characters, such as Medb or Cú Roí, of once being deities, and Cú Chulainn in particular displays superhuman prowess, the characters are mortal and associated with a specific time and place.
In the early centuries AD, Munster was the domain of the Iverni and the legendary Clanna Dedad led by Cú Roí and to whom the celebrated Conaire Mór also belonged.
The Ulstermen asked first Ailill and Medb, king and queen of Connacht, then Cú Roí, king of Munster, to adjudicate the dispute.
The churl spared him, revealed himself as Cú Roí, and declared that Cúchulainn should have the champion's portion undisputed at any feast held by the Ulstermen.
Cú Roí ( Cú Ruí, Cú Raoi ) mac Dáire is a king of Munster in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
However, T. F. O ' Rahilly believed this to be artificial, stating that " Cú Roí and Dáire are ultimately one and the same ".
Though often an outsider figure, for instance in the role of intervener or arbitrator, Cú Roí appears in a great number of medieval Irish texts, including Forfess Fer Fálgae, Amra Con Roi, Brinna Ferchertne, Aided Chon Roi ( in several recensions ), Fled Bricrenn, Mesca Ulad and Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Cú Roí plays an important role in the 8th-century tale Fled Bricrenn ( Bricriu's Feast ).
The trickster Bricriu incites the heroes Cú Chulainn, Conall Cernach and Lóegaire Búadach to compete for the champion's portion at a feast, and Cú Roí is one of those who judged among them.
When the three heroes return to Ulster, Cú Roí appears to each in the guise of a hideous churl ( bachlach ) and challenges them to behead him, then allow him to return and behead them.
Cú Roí, who has sent a contingent to the Connacht army but had not hitherto been personally involved in the recent hostilities between Ulster and Connacht, does intervene when he learns that the Ulster warrior Munremar mac Gerrginn ( lit.
The shower of falling rubble forces them to use their shields for protection, until on their request, Cú Roí and Munremar agree to discontinue the fight and return home.
Cú Roí further appears in the episode known as the " The Trance of Amairgin ", variants of which appear in Recension I and II of the Táin bó Cúailnge.
Having followed news of Cú Chulainn's sustained success in single-handedly opposing the Connacht army, Cú Roí once again appears on the scene, this time to fight Cú Chulainn directly.
Cú Roí attacks him in kind and their stones meet in the air.
Cú and appears
Cú Roí's name also appears in two examples of medieval Welsh literature.
Cú Chulainn, also spelled Cú Chulaind or Cúchulainn () Irish for " Culann's Hound "; and sometimes known in English as Cuhullin (), is an Irish mythological hero who appears in the stories of the Ulster Cycle, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore.
After Cú Chulainn finally defeats Lóch, the Morrígan appears to him as an old woman milking a cow, with the same injuries he had given her in her animal forms.
She appears in the Irish tale Serglige Con Culainn ( The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn ), first as a sea bird, and then as an avenging goddess.
Scáthach's instruction of the young hero Cú Chulainn notably appears in Tochmarc Emire ( The Wooing of Emer ), an early Irish foretale to the great epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, in which Cú Chulainn is honour-bound to perform a number of tasks before he is found worthy to marry his beloved Emer, daughter of the chieftain Forgall Monach.
After he defeats his opponent, the Morrígan appears to him in the form of an old woman milking a cow, with wounds corresponding to the ones Cú Chulainn gave her in her animal forms.
Alongside Conchobar, Cú Roí and Ailill, Cairbre appears as king of Tara in stories of the Ulster Cycle, where he is the brother of Ailill mac Máta, husband of Medb of Connacht.
Cú and Con
The canine imagery continues with Cian's brother Cú (" hound "), another Lugaid, Lugaid Mac Con ( son of a hound ), and Lugh's son Cúchulainn (" Culann's Hound ").
Cú Roí's death by Cú Chulainn's hand is the subject of the tale Aided Con Roi, which survives in two versions.
Texts such as Forfess Fer Fálgae and Siaburcharpát Con Culainn describe a raid on Inis Fer Falga ( possibly the Isle of Man ) in which Cú Roí and Cú Chulainn come into conflict.
His son, Lugaid mac Con Roí, later succeedes in avenging him by killing Cú Chulainn, a story told in Aided Con Culainn.
The Iron Age ruin of Caherconree ( Irish Cathair Con Raoi, Cú Roí's castle ) in the Slieve Mish Mountains, on the Dingle Peninsula or Corcu Duibne, County Kerry, preserves Cú Roí's name.
Though Cú Chulainn had many lovers, Emer's only jealousy came when he was entranced into love with Fand, wife of Manannán mac Lir, the king of the great sea, as recounted in the narrative Serglige Con Culainn (" The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn ").
The name may be derived from two Irish Gaelic words " Con " ( the genitive case of Cú, meaning " hound ") and " Lón " meaning lion-thereby implying a person who has the characteristics of a lion born of a hound-strength and speed.
In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Lugaid mac Con Roí was the son of Cú Roí mac Dáire.
Cú Chulainn sends him to the Otherworld with Lí Ban, sister to Fand, and he brings back bountiful descriptions of the Otherworld in the tale Serglige Con Culainn ( The Sickbed of Cúchulainn ).
In the tale of Cú Chulainn's death he is killed by Lugaid mac Con Roí with a spear intended for Cú Chulainn.
Another is Cú Roí mac Dáire, or simply Dáire, father of Lugaid mac Con Roí.
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Cú Roí's uncle ( or brother or nephew ), Conganchnes (" Horn-skinned "), tried to avenge him, but was killed by Celtchar.
In the earliest version of Compert C ( h ) on Culainn (" The Conception of Cú Chulainn "), his mother Deichtine is the daughter and charioteer of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, and accompanies him as he and the nobles of Ulster hunt a flock of magical birds.
In some versions of the story Lug was born as one of triplets, and his father, Cian (" Distance "), is often mentioned in the same breath as his brothers Cú (" Hound ") and Cethen ( meaning unknown ), who nonetheless have no stories of their own.
Two further 7th century poems also allude to elements of the story: in Verba Scáthaige (" Words of Scáthach "), the warrior-woman Scáthach prophesies Cú Chulainn's combats at the ford ; and Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind (" We had a great day of plying spear-points "), attributed to Cú Chulainn himself, refers to an incident in the Boyhood Deeds section of the Táin.
These include Dungiven Priory which is reputed to be the tomb of Cú Maige na nGall (" Cooey-na-Gall ") Ó Catháin, who died in 1385.
In Irish mythology, the Donn Cuailnge (" Brown Bull of Cooley ") plays a central role in the epic Táin Bó Cuailnge (" The Cattle-Raid of Cooley ") which features the hero Cú Chulainn, which were collected in the 7th century CE Lebor na hUidre (" Book of the Dun Cow ").
Cú and combat
He fights Aífe in single combat, and the two are evenly matched, but Cú Chulainn distracts her by calling out that Aífe's horses and chariot, the things she values most in the world, have fallen off a cliff, and seizes her.
The men of Ulster are disabled by a curse, so Cú Chulainn prevents Medb's army from advancing further by invoking the right of single combat at fords.
After one particularly arduous combat Cú Chulainn lies severely wounded, but is visited by Lug, who tells him he is his father and heals his wounds.
A statue of Cú Chulainn carrying the body of Fer Diad stands in Ardee, County Louth, traditionally the site of their combat in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
An ally of Forgall's, Scenn Menn, tried to stop the fleeing couple, but Cú Chulainn killed him in single combat at a ford.
She is a legendary Scottish warrior woman and martial arts teacher who trains the legendary Ulster hero Cú Chulainn in the arts of combat.
Aífe challenges Scáthach to single combat, and Cú Chulainn fights as Scáthach's champion, but before the fight he asks Scáthach what it is that Aífe loves most, which Scáthach reveals is her chariot and horses.
Cú Chulainn, who had recently arrived at Scáthach's fortress-home to be her pupil, accidentally broke one of Uathach's fingers, and Uathach's suitor, Cochar Croibhe, challenged him to single combat despite Uathach's protests.
Because of a divine curse on the Ulaid, the invasion was opposed only by the teenage Ulaid hero Cú Chulainn, who held up the army's advance by demanding single combat at fords.
Cú Chulainn, assisted by his charioteer Láeg, wages a guerrilla campaign against the advancing army, then halts it by invoking the right of single combat at fords, defeating champion after champion in a stand-off lasting months.
After a particularly arduous combat he is visited by another supernatural figure, Lugh, who reveals himself to be Cú Chulainn's father.
Afterwards, Medb repeatedly offers her to prospective warriors, first to Nad Crantail, then to Láríne Mac Nóis, in a truce with Cú Chulainn not to attack her army by night in exchange that he is provided with a warrior to engage in one-on-one combat with each day.
The area is steeped in legend, One of which is the Battle for the Brown bull of Cooley when Cú Chulainn invoked the right for single combat and fought all of Queen Mebhs forces in the narrow gully formed by Glaciers, now christened Mebhs Gap and the profile of the mountain is said to resemble a sleeping giant, thought by some to be Finn MacCumhaill ( Finn McCool ).
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