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One night in bed, the promiscuous Connacht Queen, Maeve, with her
husband Ailill. They argue over who has the wealth. Ailill doesn't
like the suggestion he's a kept man. "Her words were sharp; they cut
him deep, in a war between the sheets". Ailill's magnificent 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
Bull for a year, thus giving Maeve the decider. "I once told her where
she could find her dream". The Bull's owner is agreeable until Mac and
his party get very drunk and reveal that had they not been to borrow
the bull they would have taken it by force. The deal down. They go
home emptyhanded. Maeve on war.
Having marshalled all her warriors, and allies Munster and Tara, and
with six brothers and their armies standing by Maeve receives
favourable from her Druids. The long march to Cooley begins. "The
champions and the Seven Sons are to take away the Donn". However, a
sorceress appears and warns of impending defeat at the hand of Dearg
Doom, Cu Chulainn. "Saw the host stained red in war, saw the
around the head of a dragon-boy". The is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill with labour - the legacy of a
curse put on them for inhuman treatment of a pregnant woman. The one
man exempt from this curse is Cu Chulainn, very birth is shrouded in
mystery. Singlehandedly he takes on the 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 'two heads are better than
none. One hundred heads are so much than one'". Cu Chulainn is a
hard man. Originally called Setanta, he known as Cu Chulainn, the
of Culann, because of his savagery. As the Connacht losses grow
greater, the deposed of Ulster, Fergus MacRoich, who is having a secret
affair with Maeve, meets Cu and arranges a treaty. Cu Chulainn
agrees to combat with any Connacht champion provided Maeve's
does not advance. One by one, day after day he defeats each warrior
until he faces his old foster-brother and close friend Ferdia.
Cu Chulainn pleads with Ferdia to leave. "But Ferdia laughed and shook
his golden head and then fell to battle again". For three days they
fight at a ford and appear 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 Ferdia Cu Chulainn catches him
and him to the riverbank, lamenting. "Life was a game, Now I miss
your name; your golden hair". overcome by despair Cu Chulainn abandons
the fight.
Maeve's army south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally and
Cu Chulainn in their ranks they give chase. "But before you hit off,
let me say this time you bit off more you can chew". The Morrigan,
of Demons, who has been encouraging slaughter all along, prophesies
the outcome. In the battle which follows the Connacht is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain. Our fall like our
pride". Maeve's is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the Ulstermen are taking
the Brown Bull home, they meet Ailill's Bull, the White-Horned one. The
immediately attacks the White. "You can fool alright but can you fool
the beast"? All day and night they are in combat. Morning sees the
Donn victorious. The armies consider him, the cause of all their
suffering, but leave him as, dying, he homewards.