Emer ingen Forgaill

wife of Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of tales
See also: Cú ChulainnCú 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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Forgall ManachForgall Manach
Forgall Monach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Emer’s father in tales of the Ulster Cycle.
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Theuerkauf, Marie-Luise, “The road less travelled: Cú Chulainn’s journey to matrimony and the Dindshenchas of Tochmarc Emire”, in: Matthias Egeler (ed.), Landscape and myth in northwestern Europe, 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 213–238.
Findon, Joanne, “Gender and power in Serglige Con Culainn and The only jealousy of Emer”, in: Maria Tymoczko, and Colin A. Ireland (eds), Language and tradition in Ireland: continuities and displacements, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. 47–61.
Findon, Joanne, A woman’s words: Emer and female speech in the Ulster Cycle, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Findon, Joanne, “A woman’s words: Emer versus Cú Chulainn in Aided Óenfir Aife”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 139–148.