Texts

Sciath Con Culainn ‘Cú Chulainn’s shield’

  • Irish
  • Ulster Cycle

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

Subjects

Cú Chulainn
Cú Chulainn
Young Ulster hero and chief character of Táin bó Cuailnge and other tales of the Ulster Cycle; son of Súaltam or Lug and Deichtire (sister to Conchobor); husband of Emer (ingen Forgaill)

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Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Best, Richard Irvine [ed. and tr.], “Cuchulainn’s shield”, Ériu 5 (1911): 72.
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Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
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May 2011, last updated: January 2024