The cooking connection also suggests to some a connection with the three mythical hags who cook the meal of dogflesh that brings the hero Cúchulainn to his doom.

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

When Fand sees that Cúchulainn's jealous wife, Emer is worthy of him ( and accompanied by a troop of armed women ), she decides to return to Manannán, who then shakes his magical cloak of mists between Fand and Cúchulainn so that they may never meet again.

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.

She chants a poem, and then returns to her husband Manannán, who shakes his magical cloak of mists between Fand and Cúchulainn, that they may never meet again.

When Ailill and Medb, king and queen of Connacht, invade Ulster to steal the bull Donn Cúailnge, their progress is held up by Cúchulainn, who demands single combat.

He sends a message to Cúchulainn, who begins his single-handed defence of the province.

Cúchulainn, who has so far sat out the battle, recuperating from his wounds, enters the fray and challenges Fergus.

* Kalevipoeg's quick temper and tendency to kill people in arguments at parties is echoed in many legendary heroes throughout Europe, including Ireland's Cúchulainn and Scotland's Gawayne ( who later became fused with the Welsh Gwalchmei to become one of the knights in Arthurian legends, Gawain ).

Because of a divine curse on the Ulstermen, the invasion was opposed only by the teenage Ulster hero Cúchulainn, who held up the army's advance by demanding single combat at fords.

On another occasion, the young Cúchulainn overheard Cathbad prophesy that anyone who took arms on that day would have everlasting fame but a short life ; he immediately ran to Conchobar and asked to be armed.

Cethern mac Fintain is an Ulster warrior who aids Cúchulainn in the Táin Bó Cuailnge ( Cattle Raid of Cooley ), according to the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

* Siaburchapat Con Culaind (" Cúchulainn's Phantom Chariot ": a tale of Saint Patrick, who raises Cúchulainn from hell to convince king Lóegaire to convert to Christianity, contains passages interpolated by H )

The army was prevented from taking Donn back to Connacht by Cúchulainn on the mount of Slieve Foy, who invoked the right of single combat, defeating a series of champions in a standoff lasting months.

His wife was Derbforgaill, a daughter of the king of Lochlann ( Scandinavia ), who had fallen in love with Cúchulainn from afar and come to Ireland with a handmaiden in the form of a pair of swans, linked by a golden chain, to seek him out.

In Táin Bó Regamna ( The Cattle Raid of Regamain ), Cúchulainn encounters the Morrígan, but does not recognize her, as she drives a heifer from his territory.

This Macha is particularly associated with horses — it is perhaps significant that twin colts were born on the same day as Cúchulainn, and that one of his chariot-horses was called Liath Macha or " Macha's Grey "— and she is often compared with the Welsh mythological figure Rhiannon.

In Irish Mythology she was sent as an offering to Cúchulainn in his fight against Maive and her army from Connaught.

Cúchulainn completes his training under Scáthach as a warrior and shaman, and she chants to him his future through the imbas forasnai through repeated phrases containing 8 / 8 and 7 / 8 measures.

Cúchulainn saved Derbforgaill's life by sucking the stone from her side, and she declared her love for him, but because he had sucked her side he could not marry her-evidently he had violated some geis or taboo.

He regrets blessing her for the three drinks of milk which is apparent in the exchange between the Morrígan and Cúchulainn, " She gave him milk from the third teat, and her leg was healed.

Later in the story, mortally wounded, Cúchulainn ties himself to a standing stone with his own entrails so he can die upright, and it is only when a crow lands on his shoulder that his enemies believe he is dead.

She cursed the men of Ulster to suffer her labour pains in the hour of their greatest need, which is why none of the Ulstermen but the semi-divine hero Cúchulainn were able to fight in the Táin Bó Cuailnge ( Cattle Raid of Cooley ).

Súaltam ( Súaltaim, Súaldam, Súaldaim, Súaltach ) mac Róich is the mortal father of the hero Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

The child is later renamed Cúchulainn.

Fand sees that Emer is worthy of Cúchulainn, and obviously upset by their affair, so Fand chooses to leave him.

The geis is often a key device in hero tales, such as that of Cúchulainn in Irish mythology.

For instance, Cúchulainn has a geis to never eat dog meat, and he is also bound by a geis to eat any food offered to him by a woman.

Also, throughout the Táin Bó Cúailnge Medb has several encounters with Cúchulainn in which he kills either her pets or handmaidens and the place in which they were killed is then named after them, which illustrates the importance of landscape throughout the text of the Táin Bó Cúailnge.

The Cúchulainn Initiative is a cross-community program aimed at establishing teams consisting of Catholic and Protestant schoolchildren with no prior playing experience.

The Red Branch warriors, including Cúchulainn and the sons of Usnech, appear as main characters in The Swan Maiden ( 2009 ), a novel by Jules Watson about the life of Deirdre The Raven Queen tells more of the story, mainly Maeve's view.

However Cúchulainn wounds her in each form and defeats his opponent despite her interference.

Emer was the first to enter, as Cúchulainn lifted the side of the house up to let her in, tipping Bricriu into a ditch.

Cúchulainn eventually regains his health by the favor of Fand when, via negotiators ( Lí Ban, and Cúchulainn's charioteer, Láeg ), Cúchulainn reluctantly agrees to travel to the Fand's otherworld island and help her in a battle against her foes.

Examples of this occur when Cúchulainn “ slung a stone and killed a pet stoat as it sat on Medb ’ s shoulder by her neck, south of the ford.

The Dun Emer studio and press were named after Emer, daughter of Forgall Monach, wife of the hero Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, a figure famous for her artistic skills as well as her beauty.

Shane MacGowan came into his own as a songwriter with this disc, offering up poetic story-telling, such as " The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn " and " The Old Main Drag ", as well as definitive interpretations of Ewan MacColl's " Dirty Old Town " and Eric Bogle's " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( this had previously been covered by Shane's fellow punk contemporaries The Skids in 1981 ).

Conall and Cúchulainn had sworn to each other that whoever was killed first, the other would avenge him before nightfall.

In the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Ferdiad finds himself on opposite sides to his best friend and foster-brother Cúchulainn, with whom he had trained in arms under the renowned warrior woman Scáthach.

Fingín had Cúchulainn make a bath of bone marrow, and had Cethern sleep in it.

He avenged his father's death by killing Cúchulainn after conspiring with Medb and the children of other people Cúchulainn had killed.

After Lugaid's spear had spilled out his innards, Cúchulainn tied himself to a standing stone so he could die standing up.

The Ulaid had close links with Gaelic Scotland, where Cúchulainn is said to have learned the arts of war.