An Chraobh Airgid

Person

Sualtam

Sualtam

Cú Chulainn’s father, whose severed head went on crying the warning in Emain.

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In the Táin he and his son were the only men of Ulster free of the pains, and Cú Chulainn sent him to warn the province. Later he rode the Grey of Macha to Emain Macha, crying that men were slain, women stolen and cattle driven off. No one answered him, for it was geis to speak before the king. As he turned away, the horse reared, and the rim of his own shield cut off his head; the head, carried back into Emain on the shield, went on crying, and Conchobar rose. In the older telling Lugh calls himself Cú Chulainn’s father from the síd.

Kin and bonds

In the tales

  • The Cattle Raid of Cooley An argument in bed over who is richer ends in a war for a brown bull, and one young man holding a ford against all Ireland.

See also

Sources

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

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