Ultonian

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: So was any Ultonian, we are told, who happened to be outside the boundaries of his country, and so were Ciichulainn and his father, even when in Ulster (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "So was any Ultonian, we are told, who happened to be outside the boundaries of his country, and so were Ciichulainn and his father, even when in Ulster."

• attestation: Any one who was rash enough to attack an Ultonian warrior during this his period of helplessness could not, it is further stated, expect to live afterwards either prosperously or long (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Any one who was rash enough to attack an Ultonian warrior during this his period of helplessness could not, it is further stated, expect to live afterwards either prosperously or long."

• attestation: *■ Two versions of a story to account for the Ultonian couvade have been published with a translation into German, by ProC Windisch, in the BerichU dtr k, sdchs (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "*■ Two versions of a story to account for the Ultonian couvade have been published with a translation into German, by ProC Windisch, in the BerichU dtr k, sdchs."

• attestation: But when touching on this point it occurred to me that the wholesale couvade of the Ultonian braves, at one and the same time of the year, implied that the birth of Ultonian children, or at any rate t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "But when touching on this point it occurred to me that the wholesale couvade of the Ultonian braves, at one and the same time of the year, implied that the birth of Ultonian children, or at any rate those of them that were to be reared, took place (in some period or other of the history of their race) at a particular season of the year, namely, about the beginning of the winter, that is when food wouM be most abundant."

• attribution: It is to be regarded as a position distinctly lower thad that of the Ultonians in the time of Ciichulainn; for the couvade seems to me to argue a notion of paternity — perhaps, in their case, as clear (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "It is to be regarded as a position distinctly lower thad that of the Ultonians in the time of Ciichulainn; for the couvade seems to me to argue a notion of paternity — perhaps, in their case, as clear a notion of paternity as was possible for a community which was not quite out of the promiscuous stage of society."