Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster

by Eleanor Hull

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Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh

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[Contents]

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	Introduction	9
CHAP.
[I.]	How Conor became King of Ulster	15
[II.]	Queen Meave and the Woman-Seer	18
[III.]	The Boy-Corps of King Conor	25
[IV.]	How Cuchulain got his Name	33
[V.]	How Cuchulain took Arms	40
[VI.]	Of Cuchulain’s First Feats of Championship	47
[VII.]	Cuchulain’s Adventures in Shadow-land	57
[VIII.]	How Cuchulain wooed his Wife	68
[IX.]	Meave demands the Brown Bull of Cooley and is refused	78
[X.]	The Plucking out of the Four-pronged Pole	88
[XI.]	The Deer of Ill-Luck	94
[XII.]	Etarcomal’s well-deserved Fate	104
[XIII.]	The Fight with Spits of Holly-Wood	113
[XIV.]	The Combat with Ferdia	118
[XV.]	The Fall of Ferdia	128
[XVI.]	Ulster, Awake!	143
[XVII.]	The End of the Boy-Corps	151
[XVIII.]	The “Rising-Out” of Ulster	160
[XIX.]	The humbling of Queen Meave	167
[XX.]	The Fairy Swan-Maidens	171
[XXI.]	How Cuchulain went to Fairy-Land	182
[XXII.]	Deirdre of Contentions	194
[XXIII.]	The Up-bringing of Deirdre	201
[XXIV.]	The Sleep-Wanderer	208
[XXV.]	The Wiles of King Conor	217
[XXVI.]	The Sorrowful Death of Usna’s Sons	224
[XXVII.]	The Fight of Cuchulain with his Son Conla	241
[XXVIII.]	The Hound at Bay	252
[XXIX.]	Fame outlives Life	264
[XXX.]	The Red Rout	270
	Notes on the Sources	275

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[Illustrations]

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The Raven of Ill-omen	[Frontispiece]
Queen Meave and the Druid	[18]
Cuchulain sets out for Emain Macha	[28]
Cuchulain desires Arms of the King	[42]
Macha curses the Men of Ulster	[80]
Ferdia falls by the Hand of Cuchulain	[140]
“The moment of good-luck is come”	[160]
Cuchulain comes at last to his Death	[268]