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Cú Chulainn (/ k uː ˈ k ʌ l ɪ n / koo-KUL-in [1] [2] Irish: [kuːˈxʊlˠɪn̠ʲ] ⓘ), is an Irish warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. [3]
Cú Chulainn fighting with a spear, as depicted by J. C. Leyendecker. ... was the name of the spear of Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Compert Con Culainn (English: The Conception of Cú Chulainn) is an early medieval Irish narrative about the conception and birth of the hero Cú Chulainn. Part of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology , it survives in two major versions.
The stories of Conchobar's birth and death are synchronised with the birth and death of Christ, [6] and the Lebor Gabála Érenn dates the Táin Bó Cúailnge and the birth and death of Cú Chulainn to the reign of the High King Conaire Mor, who it says was a contemporary of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 BC — AD 14). [7]
Emer rebuking Cú Chulainn. (1905 illustration by H. R. Millar.). Emer (Old Irish: [ˈẽβ̃ʲər]), in modern Irish Eimhear or Éimhear (with variations including Eimer, Eimear and Éimear) [1] [2] and in Scottish Gaelic Eimhir, is the name of the daughter of Forgall Monach and the wife of the hero Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Fedelm Noíchrothach - daughter of Conchobar mac Nessa, unfaithful wife of Cairbre Nia Fer and lover of both Cú Chulainn and Conall Cernach; Flidais - lover of Fergus mac Róich; Lugaid mac Con Roí - son of Cú Roí and killer of Cú Chulainn; Mesgegra - king of Leinster; Scáthach - legendary warrior woman who trains Cú Chulainn in the arts ...
Art of Cú Chulainn in battle (J. C. Leyendecker, 1911); Liath Macha is partially visible.Liath Macha ("grey [horse] of Macha") and Dub Sainglend ("black [horse] of Saingliu") are the two chariot-horses of Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Cú Chulainn and Aífe ; Cybele and Attis ; Daphnis and Chloë ; Deucalion and Pyrrha ; Diarmuid and Gráinne ; Dionysus/Bacchus and Ampelos ; Dionysus/Bacchus and Ariadne ; Dushyanta and Shakuntala ; Eros and Psyche ; Gaia and Uranus ; Gilgamesh and Enkidu ; Hagbard and Signy