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One in bed, the promiscuous Connacht Queen, Maeve, quarrels with her
husband Ailill. They over who has the most wealth. Ailill doesn't
like the suggestion that he's a kept man. "Her words were they cut
him deep, in a war between the sheets". magnificent White Bull is
the deciding factor in their measuring of possessions. Maeve's
a bad loser. Mac Roth, her messenger, goes to Cooley to the famed
Brown Bull for a year, thus giving Maeve the decider. "I once her where
she could find her dream". The Bull's owner is agreeable until Mac and
his party get drunk and reveal that had they not been allowed to borrow
the bull they would have taken it by force. The breaks down. They go
emptyhanded. Maeve decides on war.
Having marshalled all her warriors, and allies Munster and Tara, and
Ailill's six brothers and their armies standing by Maeve receives
favourable omens from her Druids. The long march to begins. "The
champions and the Sons are come to take away the Donn". However, a
sorceress appears and warns Maeve of impending defeat at the hand of
Doom, Cu Chulainn. "Saw the stained red in war, saw the hero-light
around the head of a dragon-boy". The is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill labour pains - the legacy of a
put on them for their inhuman treatment of a pregnant woman. The one
man exempt from this curse is Cu Chulainn, whose very is shrouded in
mystery. Singlehandedly he takes on the defence of Ulster, harassing
soldiers, "And like a hawk I'll swoop and swoop again", beheading who
from the main force. "You can hear me shout 'two heads are better than
none. One hundred heads are so much better one'". Cu Chulainn is a
hard man. called Setanta, he became known as Cu Chulainn, the
Hound of Culann, because of his savagery. As the losses grow
greater, the deposed King of Ulster, Fergus MacRoich, who is having a
affair Maeve, meets Cu Chulainn and arranges a treaty. Cu Chulainn
agrees to singlehanded with any Connacht champion provided Maeve's
army does not advance. One by one, day after day he defeats each
eventually he faces his old foster-brother and close friend Ferdia.
Cu Chulainn pleads with Ferdia to leave. "But just laughed and shook
his golden head and then they fell to battle again". For three they
fight at a ford and evenly matched until on the third day Cu Chulainn
flies into a rage and loose his supernatural javelin, the terrible Gae
Bolga, which destroys his friend. As falls Cu Chulainn catches him
and him to the riverbank, lamenting. "Life was a game, Now I miss
your name; your golden hair". Then overcome by despair Cu abandons
the fight.
army moves south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally and
with Cu Chulainn in their ranks give chase. "But before you hit off,
let me say this time you bit off more you can chew". The Morrigan,
Queen of Demons, who has been encouraging slaughter all along,
the outcome. In the battle which follows the army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain. Our tears like our
pride". Maeve's life is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the are taking
the Bull home, they meet Ailill's Bull, the White-Horned one. The Donn
immediately the White. "You can fool them alright but can you fool
the beast"? All day and they are locked in combat. Morning sees the
victorious. The armies consider destroying him, the cause of all their
suffering, but leave him as, dying, he homewards.