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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 that he's a kept man. "Her words were they cut
him deep, in a war between the sheets". Ailill's magnificent White is
the factor in their subsequent measuring of possessions. Maeve's
a bad loser. Mac Roth, her messenger, goes to to rent 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 Mac Roth and
his party get very drunk and that had they not been allowed 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 from Munster and Tara, and
with Ailill's six and their armies standing by Maeve receives
favourable omens from her Druids. The long march to begins. "The
champions and the Seven are come to take away the Donn". However, a
sorceress and warns Maeve of impending defeat at the hand of Dearg
Doom, Cu Chulainn. "Saw the host stained red in war, saw the
around the of a dragon-boy". The warning is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill with pains - the legacy of a
curse put on them for inhuman treatment of a pregnant woman. The one
man from this curse is Cu Chulainn, whose very birth is shrouded in
mystery. Singlehandedly he takes on the of Ulster, harassing Maeve's
soldiers, "And a hawk I'll swoop and swoop again", beheading those who
from the main force. "You can hear me shout 'two heads are better than
none. One hundred are so much better than one'". Cu Chulainn is a
hard man. Originally called Setanta, he became as Cu Chulainn, the
Hound of Culann, because of his savagery. As the Connacht losses
greater, the King of Ulster, Fergus MacRoich, who is having a secret
affair with Maeve, meets Cu and arranges a treaty. Cu Chulainn
agrees to singlehanded combat with any champion provided Maeve's
army does not advance. One by one, day after day he defeats warrior
eventually he faces his old foster-brother and close friend Ferdia.
Cu Chulainn pleads with Ferdia to leave. "But Ferdia just laughed and
his golden head and they fell to battle again". For three days they
fight at a ford and appear evenly matched until on the day Cu Chulainn
flies into a rage and lets loose his javelin, the terrible Gae
Bolga, which destroys his friend. As Ferdia falls Cu catches him
and him to the riverbank, lamenting. "Life was a game, Now I miss
your name; your golden hair". Then by despair Cu Chulainn abandons
the fight.
Maeve's army south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally and
with Cu Chulainn in their ranks they give chase. "But you hit off,
let me say this time you bit off more you can chew". The Morrigan,
Queen of Demons, who has been slaughter all along, prophesies
the outcome. In the battle which follows the army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain. Our tears fall our
pride". life is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the Ulstermen are taking
the Brown Bull home, they meet 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
Donn victorious. The armies consider destroying him, the cause of all
suffering, but him as, dying, he staggers homewards.