Nov 29, 2022 · Medb was the warrior Queen of Connacht, a proud, cunning, and desirable woman from the Celtic Ulster Cycle. She is best known for initiating the Cattle Raid of Cooley to steal Ulster’s prize bull.

Among the many poems which have taken their theme from the Táin and the deeds of Cuchulain may be mentioned: “The Foray of Queen Meave,” by Aubrey de Vere, Poetic Works, London, 1882, vol. ii, pages 255–343; “The Old Age of Queen …

Once of a time, that Ailill and Medb had spread their royal bed in Cruachan, the stronghold of Connacht, such was the pillow-talk that befell betwixt them: Quoth Ailill: “True is the saying, lady, ‘She is a well-off woman that is a rich man’s wife.’” “Aye,that she is,” answered the wife; “but wherefore opin’st thou so?” “For this,” Ailill replied, “that thou art this ...

Mar 17, 2023 · During a later battle with Queen Medb’s warriors, the Morrígan’s prophecy at last came true: Cú Chulainn was mortally wounded. He vowed to die standing up and used his exposed entrails to lash himself to a stone in the hopes he …

Mar 8, 2023 · Cú Chulainn was Ireland’s greatest hero, a warrior whose supernatural rages made him equally dangerous to friend and foe. After breaking a magical taboo, or geas, he died in battle defending his home province of Ulster.

As regards Medb, it is related here: She suffered not the hosts to disperse forthwith, but she gathered the men of Erin and led them forth to Cruachan to behold the battle of the bulls and in what manner they would part from one another. For during the while the battle was being fought, the Brown Bull of Cualnge with fifty heifers in his company had been brought to Cruachan. As …

The four grand provinces of Erin were side by side and against Cuchulain, from Monday before Samain-tide to Wednesday after Spring-beginning, and without leave to work harm or vent their rage on the province of Ulster, while yet all the Ulstermen were sunk in their nine days’ ‘Pains,’ and Conall Cemach (‘the Victorious’) sought out battle in strange foreign lands paying the …

Mar 10, 2023 · Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia. Offered up as a sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, Andromeda was rescued from death by Perseus, who took her back to Greece to be his queen.

Jul 11, 2023 · Hippolyta was an Amazon queen and the owner of a famous mythical girdle. She fought Heracles when the hero was sent to her kingdom to steal the girdle for his ninth labor.

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