An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Crunniuc

Crunniuc mac Agnomain

The rich man of the Ulster hills whose boast made Macha race the king’s horses.

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He was a rich cattle-lord of the lonely Ulster hills, a widower with four sons, until a woman walked into his house and stayed. She asked him never to speak of her at the assembly of the Ulstermen; there, when the king’s horses won, he boasted that his wife was swifter, and so Macha, heavy with child, was made to race them. T. W. Rolleston calls him Crundchu and Lady Gregory Crunden; in the Dindshenchas he is Crund or Cruinn son of Agnoman, and the assembly is Conchobar’s.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Debility of the Ulstermen A woman walks into a lonely man’s house and stays, so long as he never speaks of her at the assembly. Then he boasts she can outrun the king’s horses.

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Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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