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See also:CUCHULINN (Cuchuinn; pronounced " Coohoollin ") , the See also:chief See also:warrior in the Conchobar-Cuchulinn or older heroic (See also:Ulster) See also:cycle of See also:Ireland. The See also:story of his origin is very obscure. The See also:god See also:Lug is represented as. having been swallowed in a See also:draught of See also:wine by his See also:mother Dechtire, See also:sister of Conchobar, who was See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Ulster. But it is not unlikely that this story was invented to supersede the See also:account of the incestuous See also:union of Conchobar with his sister, which seems to be hinted at on various occasions. Usually, however, he is styled son of Sualdam, an Ulster warrior who plays a very inferior See also:part in the cycle. His earliest name was Setanta, and he was brought up at Dun Imbrith (See also:Louth). When he was six years of See also:age he announced his intention of going to Conchobar's See also:court at Emain Macha (See also:Navan See also:Rath near See also:Armagh) to See also:play with the boys there. He defeats all the boys in marvellous See also:fashion and is received as one of their number. Shortly of ter he kills Culann, the See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith's See also:hound, a huge See also:watch-See also:dog. The smith laments that all his See also:property is of no value now that his watchman is slain, whereupon the See also:young See also:hero offers to guard his domains until a whelp of the hound's has grown. From this the boy received the name of Cu Chulinn or Culann's Hound. The next See also:year Cuchulinn receives arms, makes his first foray, and slays the three sons of Necht, redoubtable hereditary foes of the Ulstermen, in the See also:plain of See also:Meath. The men of Ulster decide that Cuchulinn must marry, as all the See also:women of Ireland are in love with him. Chosen envoys fail to find a See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
bride worthy of him after a year's See also:search, but the hero goes straight to Emer, the daughter of Forgall the Wily, at Lusk (See also:county See also:Dublin). The See also:lady is promised to him if he will go to learn See also:chivalry of Domnall the Soldierly and the See also:amazon Scathach in See also:Alba. After enduring See also:great hardships he goes through the course and leaves a son Connlaech behind in See also:Scotland by another amazon, Aife. On his return he carries off and weds Emer. He is represented as living at Dun Delgan (See also:Dundalk). The greatest of all the hero's achievements was the See also:defence of the frontier of Ulster against the forces of Medb, See also:queen of See also:Connaught, who had come to carry off the famous See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown See also:Bull of Cualnge (Cooley). The men of Ulster were all suffering from a See also:strange debility, and Cuchulinn had to undertake the defence single-handed from See also:November to See also:February. This was when he was seventeen years of age. The cycle contains a large number of episodes, such as the gaining of the See also:champion's portion and the tragical See also:death by the warrior's See also:hand of his own son Connlaech. When he was twenty-seven he met with his end at the hands of Lugaid, son of Curoi MacDaire, the famous See also:Munster warrior, and the See also:children of Calatin See also:Dana, in revenge for their See also:father's death (see See also:CELT: Irish Literature).'
See also:Medieval See also:Christian synchronists make Clichulinn's death take See also:place about the beginning of the Christian era. It is not necessary to regard Cuchulinn as a See also:form of the See also:solar hero, as some writers have done. Most, if not all, of his wonderful attributes may be ascribed to the Irish predilection for the See also:grotesque. It is true that Cuchulinn seems to stand in a See also:special relation to the Tuatha De Danann See also:leader, the god Lug, but in See also:primitive See also:societies there is always a tendency to ascribe a divine parentage to men who stand out pre-eminently in prowess beyond their See also:fellows.
See A. Nutt, Cuchulainn, the Irish See also:Achilles (See also:London, 1900) ; E. See also:Hull, The Cuchullin See also:Saga (London, 1898). (E. C.
End of Article: CUCHULINN (Cuchuinn; pronounced " Coohoollin ")
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