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Lugaid took the head of Fergus ' brother, Fergus Foltlebair, and brought it to Cormac's attendant, who told him this was not the head of the king of Ulster.
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Lugaid had also lost a hand, and Conall again fought one-handed, but this time he only won after his horse took a bite out of Lugaid's side.
As Lugaid had lost a hand, Conall fought him with one hand tucked into his belt, but he only won when his horse took a bite out of Lugaid's side.
He took power after killing his predecessor, Lugaid Íardonn, in Ráth Clochair.
After Lugaid was overthrown and killed by Sírlám, Eochu was driven into exile overseas, but he returned after twelve years, killed Sírlám with an arrow, and took the throne.
According to the Lebor Gabála, Conaing remained in power in the north, while Lugaid took the south.
The Annals of the Four Masters say Lugaid ousted Conaing and took complete control of Ireland.
According to the Lebor Gabála, Conaing remained in power in the north, while Lugaid took the south.
The Annals of the Four Masters say Lugaid ousted Conaing and took complete control of Ireland.
Finally he and Eochu's son Lugaid Laigdech killed Airgetmar, and Dui took the thone himself, ruling for ten years until his former accomplice Lugaid killed him.
They were childless, so for fear that they might die without an heir Clothra took all three of them to bed, conceiving Lugaid Riab nDerg, son of the three Findemna.
He took the High Kingship after his predecessor, Lugaid mac Con, was expelled from Tara by Cormac mac Airt and killed in Munster by Cormac's poet Ferches mac Commáin.
Lugaid and head
Lugaid revealed that it had been he who had killed Cormac's father in the Battle of Maigh Mucruimhe, and Cormac demanded, as éraic for Art's life, that Lugaid give him Fergus ' head.
Lugaid approaches and cuts off his head, but as he does so the " hero-light " burns around Cú Chulainn and his sword falls from his hand and cuts Lugaid's hand off.
As Lugaid cut off his head, Cúchulainn's sword fell from his hand and cut off Lugaid's hand.
Lugaid and Fergus
Having recruited Tadg and Lugaid, Cormac marched against Fergus, and The Battle of Crinna began.
Finally he killed Fergus Dubdétach himself, and when the attendant confirmed he'd got the right man, Lugaid killed him and collapsed from exhaustion and loss of blood.
Lugaid threw the spear and killed Fergus.
While Lugaid Luaigne was High King of Ireland, Congall shared the kingship of Ulster with Fergus mac Léti, ruling the northern half of the province while Fergus ruled the southern half.
Lugaid decided to give the kingship to Fergus, who his daughter Findabair had fallen in love with, and compensate Congal with land, status and gold, but Congal refused and declared war.
Lugaid and brother
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 ").
Tadg advised him to recruit his grandfather's brother Lugaid Láma.
He tells his brother, Lugaid Dalleces, who is blind, that deer are playing in the water, and persuades him to throw a spear at them.
His blind brother Lugaid Dalléces was nearby, so Ailill told him a hart and a doe were playing in the lake, and challenged him to kill them with a spear.
He was the brother of Bresal Bó-Díbad, the former High King, who had been killed by Lugaid Luaigne.
But only the descendants of Conall Corc, son of Luigdech or Lugaid, son of Ailill Flann Bec, could claim Cashel, whereas all three of these more distantly related aristocracies appear to descend from Dáire Cerbba and / or Maine Munchaín, so-called brother ( s ) of Lugaid.
On his father's death, Fothad Cairpthech and Fothad Airgthech, sons of Lugaid mac Con, had taken the throne jointly, but within the year Fothad Airgthech killed his brother.
Lugaid and Cormac's
When Lugaid heard this, he conceded that Cormac's judgement was superior to his and abdicated the throne.
* Cormac's Glossary, entry for rincne: Finn as member of Lugaid Mac Con ’ s fian,
Lugaid and who
The following day Art was defeated and killed by his nephew Lugaid mac Con, who became the new High King.
The reigns of Aéd and Díthorba are missing in the Lebor Gabála Érenn – after the previous High King, Lugaid Laigdech, is killed by Áed, a dinsenchas story about the founding of Emain Macha is interpolated, followed by the reign of Cimbáeth, who is said to have succeeded Díthorba and ruled for twenty-eight years.
According to king lists, the earliest of which is dated on internal evidence to the reign of Fínsnechta Fledach ( died 697 ), Niall was succeeded by Lóegaire, who was in turn followed by a second son of Niall, Coirpre, Coirpre by Ailill Molt, one of the few kings not descended from Niall, and Ailill by Lóegaire's son Lugaid.
Lóegaire's queen, Angias, a daughter of ( Ailill ) Tassach, of the Uí Liatháin, who was pregnant with Lugaid, begged that her unborn child should be spared the curse, and this was granted in part so that Lugaid later became king.
Compared to his father, who features prominently in hagiographies of Saint Patrick, Lugaid is a lesser figure.
His mother, who is said to have been pregnant with Lugaid at the time, beseeched Patrick to lift the curse from her unborn son.
The Lebor Gabála Érenn reports two possibilities: that he and Conaing were the sons of Congal, son of Lugaid Cal of the Corcu Laigde of County Cork ; or that Eochu was the son of Congal, and Conaing was the son of Dui Temrach, son of Muiredach Bolgrach, but both had the same mother, who was also the mother of Eochu Uairches.
The Lebor Gabála Érenn reports two possibilities: that he and Eochu were the sons of Congal, son of Lugaid Cal of the Corcu Laigde of County Cork ; or that Eochu was the son of Congal, and Conaing was the son of Dui Temrach, son of Muiredach Bolgrach, but both had the same mother, who was also the mother of Eochu Uairches.
The view advanced by O ' Rahilly was that Lugaid Riab nDerg is yet another emanation of the heroic mytho-dynastic figure Lugaid, closely associated with the prehistoric Érainn, a population of late Iron Age Ireland who provide Irish legend with its earliest known Kings of Tara.
Specifically, O ' Rahilly believed Lugaid Riab nDerg to be the double of Lugaid mac Con Roí, whose alternative epithet was mac Trí Con " son of Three Hounds ", and who himself is to some extent identical with Lugaid Mac Con.
Lugaid and his stepbrothers, against Ailill's will, were allies of Nemed, son of Sroibcenn, king of the Érainn of Munster, who had killed the former High King Conaire Cóem in the battle of Gruitine.
Sadb's son Lugaid mac Con, who was Ailill's foster-son, became High King of Ireland.
Lugaid and told
His son, Lugaid mac Con Roí, later succeedes in avenging him by killing Cú Chulainn, a story told in Aided Con Culainn.
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