Cuchulain (Cuchullin) (coo-hoo´lin). Ulster hero in Irish saga,
41;
duel with Ferdia referred to,
121;
Lugh, the father of, by Dectera,
123,
182;
loved and befriended by goddess Morrigan,
126;
earliest name Setanta,
183;
his name derived from the hound of Cullan,
183,
184;
claims arms of manhood from Conor,
185;
Laeg, charioteer of,
185;
Skatha instructs, in Land of Shadows,
187-
189;
father of Connla by Aifa,
190;
slays Foill and his brothers,
194;
met by women of Emania,
194;
leaps
“the hero's salmon leap,” 195;
the winning of Emer,
195;
proclaimed by The Terrible the Champion of Ireland,
195,
196;
places Maev's host under
geise,
207,
208;
the battle-frenzy and
rias-tradh of,
209,
210;
compact with Fergus,
211;
the Morrigan offers love to,
212;
threatens to be about his feet in bottom of Ford,
212;
attacked by the Morrigan while engaged with Loch,
213;
Ferdia consents to go out against,
216;
Ferdia reproached by,
216,
217;
severely wounded by Ferdia,
220,
221;
roused from stupor by sword-play of Fergus,
224;
rushes into the battle of Garach,
224;
the vengeance of Maev upon,
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228-
233;
other enemies of Erc, and Lewy son of Curoi,
228;
Blanid, Curoi's wife, sets her love on,
228;
Bave personates Niam before,
230;
the Morrigan croaks of war before,
230;
Dectera and Cathbad urge him wait for Conall of the Victories ere setting forth to battle,
230;
the Washer at the Ford seen by,
231;
Clan Calatin cause him to break his
geise,
231;
finds his foes at Slieve Fuad,
232;
the Grey of Macha being mortally wounded, he takes farewell of,
232;
mortally wounded by Lewy,
232;
his remaining horse, Black Sainglend, breaks away from,
232;
Lewy slays outright,
233;
his death avenged by Conall of the Victories,
233;
reappears in later legend of Christian origin found in
“Book of the Dun Cow,” 238,
239;
St. Patrick's summons from Hell,
238
Cymric. 1. Peoples;
effect of legends of, on Continental poets,
50;
2. Myths;
Druidic thought enshrined in Llewellyn Sion's
“Barddas,” edited by by J. A. Williams ap Ithel for the Welsh MS. Society,
332;
God and Cythrawl in,
333;
why so little of Arthurian saga heard in,
344;
comparison between Gaelic and,
344-
368
Dagda. “The Good,” or possibly =
Doctus,
“The Wise” God, and supreme head of the People of Dana, father of Brigit (Dana),
103;
the Cauldron of the, one of the treasures of the Danaans,
106;
the
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magical harp of,
118-
119;
father and chief of the People of Dana,
120,
121;
Kings MacCuill, MacCecht, and MacGrené grandsons of,
132;
portions out spiritual Ireland between the Danaans,
136
Dana. The People of, Nemedian survivors who return to Ireland,
102;
literal meaning of
Tuatha De Danann,
103;
name of
“gods” given to the People of, by Tuan mac Carell,
104;
Milesians conquer the People of,
104;
origin of People of, according to Tuan mac Carell,
105;
cities of Falias, Gorias, Finias, and Murias,
105;
treasures of the People of,
105,
106;
the Firbolgs and the People of,
106-
119;
gift of Faëry (
i.e., skill in music) the prerogative of,
119;
daughter of the Dagda and the greatest of Danaan goddesses,
126;
Brian (ancient form Brenos), Iuchar, and Iucharba, her sons,
126;
Firbolgs and the People of,
137;
equivalent Dōn, Cymric mother-goddess,
348,
349
Dan´aan-s. Send to Balor refusing tribute,
113;
their encounter with the Fomorians,
117;
power of, exercised by spell of music,
118;
account of principal gods and attributes of,
119-
145;
reference to their displacement in Ireland by Milesians,
130;
kings, Ireland ruled by three, MacCuill, MacCecht, and MacGrené,
132;
the three kings welcome Ith to Ireland,
133;
dwell in spiritual Ireland,
136;
myth, the meaning of,
137;
the, after the Milesian conquest,
146,
147;
Donn son of Midir at war with,
285;
relations of the Church with, very cordial,
286