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One night in bed, the Connacht Queen, Maeve, quarrels with her
Ailill. They argue over who has the most wealth. Ailill doesn't
like the suggestion that he's a man. "Her words were sharp; they cut
him deep, in a war between the sheets". Ailill's magnificent White is
the deciding factor in subsequent measuring of possessions. Maeve's
a bad loser. Mac Roth, her messenger, goes to to rent the famed
Brown Bull for a year, giving Maeve the decider. "I once told her where
she could find her dream". The Bull's owner is agreeable Mac Roth and
his party get very drunk and reveal that had 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 allies Munster and Tara, and
with Ailill's six brothers and their armies standing by Maeve
favourable omens from her Druids. The 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 stained red in war, saw the hero-light
around the of a dragon-boy". The warning is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of are ill with 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 takes on the defence of Ulster, harassing
soldiers, "And like a I'll swoop and swoop again", beheading 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. called Setanta, he became known as Cu Chulainn, the
Hound of Culann, because of his savagery. As the Connacht losses
greater, the deposed King of Ulster, Fergus MacRoich, who is a secret
affair with Maeve, meets Cu Chulainn and a treaty. Cu Chulainn
to singlehanded combat with any Connacht champion provided Maeve's
army not advance. One by one, day after day he defeats each warrior
eventually 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 lets loose his supernatural javelin, the Gae
Bolga, which destroys his friend. As falls Cu Chulainn catches him
and carries him to the riverbank, lamenting. "Life was a game, Now I
name; your golden hair". Then overcome by despair Cu Chulainn abandons
the fight.
Maeve's army moves south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men and
with Cu Chulainn in ranks 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 been slaughter all along, prophesies
the outcome. In the battle which the Connacht army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain. Our fall like our
pride". Maeve's life is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the are taking
the Brown Bull home, they meet Ailill's Bull, the one. The Donn
immediately attacks the White. "You can fool them but can you fool
the beast"? All day and they are locked in combat. Morning sees the
victorious. The armies consider destroying him, the cause of all their
suffering, but leave him as, dying, he homewards.