Ciichulainn

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: This was rendered possible in the case of Ciichulainn, for instance, by Lug taking the form of an insect which was unwittingly swallowed by Dechtere, who thereby became Cuchulainn's mother; and so in (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "This was rendered possible in the case of Ciichulainn, for instance, by Lug taking the form of an insect which was unwittingly swallowed by Dechtere, who thereby became Cuchulainn's mother; and so in the case of Etain ^ and her last recorded mother, the queen of Etar king of Eochraidhe."

• attestation: This was their counsel, namely, that they should seek for Ciichulainn a consort pleasing to him to woo (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "This was their counsel, namely, that they should seek for Ciichulainn a consort pleasing to him to woo."

• relationship: Let us return to Ciichulainn, and note the statement, that he and his father, Sualdaim, were exempt from the couvade, which marks them out as not of the same race as the Ultonians, that is to say, as (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Let us return to Ciichulainn, and note the statement, that he and his father, Sualdaim, were exempt from the couvade, which marks them out as not of the same race as the Ultonians, that is to say, as the Fir Ulaid^ or 'True Ultonians' — presumably ancient inhabitants of Ulster."

• attestation: Furthermore, we have an indication whence his family had come, for Ciichulainn's first name was Setanta Beg^ * the Little Setantian,' which points to (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Furthermore, we have an indication whence his family had come, for Ciichulainn's first name was Setanta Beg^ * the Little Setantian,' which points to the coast of what is now Lancashire, as already indicated at p. 385 above."

• attestation: one as to Ciichulainn's origin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "one as to Ciichulainn's origin."

• attestation: Thus some of the birth stories of Ciichulainn and Etain seem to have passed through their hands, and they bear a striking resemblance to certain notions of the Lapps (pp (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Thus some of the birth stories of Ciichulainn and Etain seem to have passed through their hands, and they bear a striking resemblance to certain notions of the Lapps (pp. 657-8)."