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One night in bed, the promiscuous Queen, Maeve, quarrels with her
husband Ailill. They argue over who has the wealth. Ailill doesn't
like the suggestion that he's a kept man. "Her were sharp; they cut
him deep, in a war the sheets". Ailill's magnificent White Bull is
the factor in their subsequent measuring of possessions. Maeve's
a bad loser. Mac Roth, her messenger, to Cooley to rent the famed
Bull for a year, thus giving Maeve the decider. "I once told her where
she find her dream". The Bull's owner is agreeable until Mac Roth and
his party get very drunk and reveal that had they not been to borrow
the bull they would taken it by force. The deal breaks down. They go
home emptyhanded. decides on war.
marshalled all her warriors, and allies from Munster and Tara, and
with Ailill's six and their armies standing by Maeve receives
favourable omens her Druids. The long march to Cooley begins. "The
and the Seven 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 host red in war, saw the hero-light
around the of a dragon-boy". The warning is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill with labour pains - the of a
put on them for their inhuman treatment of a pregnant woman. The one
man exempt from this is Cu Chulainn, whose very birth is shrouded in
mystery. Singlehandedly he takes on the defence of Ulster, Maeve's
soldiers, "And like a hawk swoop and swoop again", beheading those who
stray from the main force. "You can hear me shout 'two heads are than
none. One hundred heads are so much better 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 King of Ulster, Fergus MacRoich, who is having a secret
affair with Maeve, meets Cu Chulainn and arranges a treaty. Cu
agrees to singlehanded combat with any Connacht champion Maeve's
army does not advance. One by one, day day he defeats each warrior
until eventually he 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 days they
fight at a ford and appear matched until on the third day Cu Chulainn
flies into a rage and lets loose his javelin, the terrible Gae
Bolga, which destroys his friend. As Ferdia falls Cu Chulainn 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 moves south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally and
with Cu in their ranks they give 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 which the Connacht army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied our gain. Our tears fall like our
pride". Maeve's life is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the are taking
the Brown Bull home, meet Ailill's Bull, the White-Horned one. The Donn
immediately attacks the White. "You can fool alright but can you fool
the beast"? All day and night they are locked in combat. sees the
Donn victorious. The armies destroying him, the cause of all their
suffering, but him as, dying, he staggers homewards.