Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
CHAPTER I How Conor became King of Ulster
CHAPTER II Queen Meave and the Woman-Seer
CHAPTER III The Boy-Corps of King Conor
CHAPTER IV How Cuchulain got his Name
CHAPTER V How Cuchulain took Arms
CHAPTER VI Of Cuchulain's First Feats of Championship
CHAPTER VII Cuchulain's Adventures in Shadow-Land
CHAPTER VIII How Cuchulain Wooed his Wife
CHAPTER IX Meave demands the Brown Bull of Cooley and is refused
CHAPTER X The Plucking out of the Four-pronged Pole
CHAPTER XI The Deer of Ill-Luck
CHAPTER XII Etarcomal's Well-deserved Fate
CHAPTER XIII The Fight with Spits of Holly-Wood
CHAPTER XIV The Combat with Ferdia
CHAPTER XV The Fall of Ferdia
CHAPTER XVI Ulster, Awake!
CHAPTER XVII The End of the Boy-Corps
CHAPTER XVIII The "Rising-Out" of Ulster
CHAPTER XIX The Humbling of Queen Meave
CHAPTER XX The Fairy Swan-Maidens
CHAPTER XXI How Cuchulain went to Fairy-Land
CHAPTER XXII Deirdre of Contentions
CHAPTER XXIII The Up-bringing of Deirdre
CHAPTER XXIV The Sleep-Wanderer
CHAPTER XXV The Wiles of King Conor
CHAPTER XXVI The Sorrowful Death of Usna's Sons
CHAPTER XXVII The Fight of Cuchulain with his son Conla
CHAPTER XXVIII The Hound at Bay
CHAPTER XXIX Fame outlives Life
CHAPTER XXX The Red Rout
Notes on the Sources
FOOTNOTES:
Title: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster
Author: Eleanor Hull
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CUCHULAIN
THE HOUND OF ULSTER
CUCHULAIN
THE HOUND OF ULSTER
BY
ELEANOR HULL
AUTHOR OF
“THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE”
“PAGAN IRELAND” “EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND”
ETC.
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY
STEPHEN REID
“Bec a brig liomsa sin,” ar Cuchulaind, “gen
go rabar acht aonla no aonoidchi ar bith acht go
mairit m’airdsgeula dom És.”
Stowe MS., C. 6, 3.
R. Irish Academy.
“Though the span of my life were but for a
day,” Cuchulain said, “little should I reck of
that, if but my noble deeds might be remembered
among men.”
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