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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
the suggestion that he's a kept man. "Her words were sharp; they cut
him deep, in a war between the sheets". Ailill's magnificent White is
the deciding factor in their subsequent 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 could find her dream". The Bull's is agreeable until Mac Roth and
his party get very drunk and reveal had they not been allowed to borrow
the bull they would have taken it by force. The deal breaks down. go
emptyhanded. Maeve decides on war.
Having marshalled all her warriors, and allies from and Tara, and
Ailill's six brothers and their armies standing by Maeve receives
favourable omens her Druids. The long march to Cooley begins. "The
champions and the Sons are come to take away the Donn". However, a
sorceress appears and Maeve of impending defeat at the hand of Dearg
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 are ill with labour pains - the legacy of a
curse put on them for their treatment of a pregnant woman. The one
man exempt from this curse is Cu Chulainn, whose very is shrouded in
mystery. he takes 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 better one'". Cu Chulainn is a
hard man. Originally Setanta, he became known as Cu Chulainn, the
Hound of Culann, of his savagery. As the Connacht losses grow
greater, the deposed King of Ulster, MacRoich, who is having a secret
with Maeve, meets Cu Chulainn and arranges a treaty. Cu Chulainn
agrees to singlehanded combat with any Connacht champion provided
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 Ferdia laughed and shook
his golden head and then they fell to again". For three days they
fight at a and appear evenly matched until on the third day Cu Chulainn
flies into a rage and lets loose his javelin, the terrible Gae
Bolga, destroys his friend. As Ferdia falls Cu Chulainn catches him
and him to the riverbank, lamenting. "Life was a game, Now I miss
your your golden hair". Then overcome by despair Cu Chulainn abandons
the fight.
army moves south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally and
with Cu Chulainn in their they give chase. "But before you hit off,
let me say time you bit off more than you can chew". The Morrigan,
Queen of Demons, who has encouraging slaughter all along, prophesies
the outcome. In the battle which follows the army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied our gain. Our tears fall like our
pride". life is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the Ulstermen 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 night they are locked in combat. sees the
victorious. The armies consider destroying him, the cause of all their
suffering, but him as, dying, he staggers homewards.