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Lóegaire Búadach

Laoghaire Buadhach · Old Irish Lóegaire Búadach

Lóegaire the Triumphant, eldest of the three champions of Ulster.

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Búadach means “victorious”; Henderson’s translation of Bricriu’s Feast calls him Loigaire the Triumphant, and Bricriu hails him as the mighty mallet of Brega and the hot hammer of Meath. His wife is Fedelm, daughter of Conchobar. At Cruachan Medb gives him a cup of bronze with a bird of white bronze on it, and at Cú Roí’s fort he keeps the first watch, as the eldest, until a giant from the sea squeezes him like a child and throws him over the wall. At Emain he makes the churl’s beheading bargain, and does not keep his tryst.

In the tales

  • Bricriu’s Feast Bricriu of the Poison Tongue throws a feast, promises the champion’s portion to three heroes at once, and sits at his window to watch.

See also

  • Bricriu Nemthenga Bricriu of the Poison Tongue, the troublemaker of the Ulster tales.
  • Conchobar mac Nessa King of Ulster, at Emain Macha.
  • Emain Macha Navan Fort. Royal seat of the Ulstermen, named for Macha’s twins.
  • Emer Cú Chulainn’s wife, the daughter of Forgall the Wily.
  • Medb Queen of Connacht, who went to war for the Brown Bull of Cúailnge.
  • Ráth Cruachan Rathcroghan and Oweynagat. Queen Medb’s royal seat, and a cave called the gate of hell.

Sources

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

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