Cuchulainn

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: may be mentioned Lug, reborn as Cuchulainn\ and the repeated births of Etain (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XI: Folklore Philosophy)

  "may be mentioned Lug, reborn as Cuchulainn\ and the repeated births of Etain."

• attestation: The same kind of question arises in reference to the Irish hero Cuchulainn: take, for instance, the stock description of Cuchulainn in a rage (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The same kind of question arises in reference to the Irish hero Cuchulainn: take, for instance, the stock description of Cuchulainn in a rage."

• attestation: Then, moreover, they were anxious and afraid lest the death of Cuchulainn should take place early, so they were desirous for that reason to give him a wife in order that he might leave an heir; for th (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Then, moreover, they were anxious and afraid lest the death of Cuchulainn should take place early, so they were desirous for that reason to give him a wife in order that he might leave an heir; for they knew that it was from himself that his rebirth (af/igein) would be."

• attestation: Another thing which marks Cuchulainn as of a different racial origin from the other Ultonians is the belief of the latter, that his rebirth must be from himself (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Another thing which marks Cuchulainn as of a different racial origin from the other Ultonians is the belief of the latter, that his rebirth must be from himself."