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One night in bed, the promiscuous Connacht Queen, Maeve, quarrels 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". Ailill's White Bull is
the deciding in their subsequent 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 told her where
she could find her dream". The owner is agreeable until Mac Roth and
his party get very drunk and reveal that had they not been to borrow
the bull they have taken it by force. The deal breaks down. They go
home emptyhanded. decides on war.
Having all her warriors, and allies from Munster and Tara, and
with Ailill's six brothers and armies standing by Maeve receives
favourable omens her Druids. The long march to Cooley begins. "The
champions and the Seven Sons are come to take the Donn". However, a
sorceress appears and warns Maeve of defeat at the hand of Dearg
Doom, Cu Chulainn. "Saw the host stained red in war, saw the
the head of a dragon-boy". The warning is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill labour pains - the legacy of a
curse put on them for their inhuman of a pregnant woman. The one
man exempt from this curse is Cu Chulainn, whose birth is shrouded in
mystery. Singlehandedly he on the defence of Ulster, harassing Maeve's
soldiers, "And like a hawk I'll swoop and swoop again", those who
stray from the main force. "You can hear me shout heads are better than
none. One hundred heads are so much than one'". Cu Chulainn is a
hard man. Originally 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
with Maeve, meets Cu Chulainn and arranges a treaty. Cu Chulainn
agrees to singlehanded combat with any Connacht champion provided
does not advance. One by one, day after day he defeats each warrior
until eventually he faces his old foster-brother and friend Ferdia.
Cu Chulainn pleads with to leave. "But Ferdia just laughed and shook
his golden head and then fell to battle again". For three days they
fight at a ford and evenly matched until on the third day Cu Chulainn
into a rage and lets loose his supernatural javelin, the terrible Gae
Bolga, destroys his friend. As Ferdia falls Cu Chulainn catches him
and carries him to the riverbank, lamenting. "Life was a game, Now I
your name; your golden hair". Then by despair Cu Chulainn abandons
the fight.
army moves south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally and
with Cu Chulainn in their ranks they chase. "But before you hit off,
let me say this you bit off more than you can chew". The Morrigan,
Queen of Demons, who has been encouraging all along, prophesies
the outcome. In the battle follows the Connacht army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain. Our tears fall our
pride". Maeve's is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the Ulstermen are taking
the Brown home, they meet Ailill's Bull, the White-Horned one. The Donn
attacks the White. "You can fool them alright but can you fool
the beast"? All day and night they are locked in combat. sees the
Donn victorious. The armies consider destroying him, the cause of all
suffering, but leave him as, dying, he homewards.