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One night in bed, the promiscuous Connacht Queen, Maeve, quarrels her
Ailill. They argue over who has the most 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 Cooley to the famed
Brown 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 had they not been allowed to borrow
the bull they would have taken it by force. The deal breaks down. 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 Sons are come to take the Donn". However, a
sorceress appears and warns Maeve of defeat at the hand of Dearg
Doom, Cu Chulainn. "Saw the host red in war, saw the hero-light
around the head of a dragon-boy". The is ignored.
Meanwhile, the men of Ulster are ill with pains - the legacy 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 I'll swoop and again", beheading those who
stray from the main force. "You can hear me shout heads are better than
none. One hundred are so much better than one'". Cu Chulainn is a
man. Originally called Setanta, he became known 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 Chulainn and a treaty. Cu Chulainn
agrees to singlehanded combat with any Connacht champion provided
army does not advance. One by one, day after day he each warrior
until eventually he his old foster-brother and close friend Ferdia.
Cu Chulainn pleads with Ferdia to leave. "But Ferdia just laughed and
his golden and then they 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 and lets loose his supernatural javelin, the terrible Gae
Bolga, which destroys his friend. As 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.
Maeve's army south with the stolen bull. The Ulster men rally 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 encouraging all along, prophesies
the outcome. In the which follows the Connacht army is routed.
"It seems our fortunes lied despite our gain. Our tears like our
pride". life is spared by Cu Chulainn. As the Ulstermen are taking
the Brown Bull home, they Ailill's Bull, the White-Horned one. The Donn
immediately attacks the White. "You can fool them alright but can you
the beast"? All day and they are locked in combat. Morning sees the
Donn victorious. The armies destroying him, the cause of all their
suffering, but him as, dying, he staggers homewards.