Behind the doors of the guesthouse in Temair Luachra, the royal castle of the Érainn, a nasty surprise awaited the warriors of #Ulster. #Cúchulainn chose the largest guest house. He did not know that this one was built of iron and only covered with wood.
Late in the evening the doors were barred from the outside. With 7 iron chains the doors and walls of the iron house in Temair Luachra were secured. In the vault under the house now 3x50 blacksmiths brought the fire to blaze. The heroic warriors of #Ulster were to be burned.
How did the warriors of #Ulster escape being burned behind the doors of the guest house in Temair Luachra? Together, the #Ulster men tipped a wall outward, slaying 300 Érainn. Cúchulainn, goaded by King #Ailill of #Connaught, went into a fighting frenzy and put the attackers from #Munster to flight.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Irland` #IronAge #hillfort

#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: The #Irish hero #CúChulainn had made a raid into the #Otherworld. Afterwards his companion Cú Roí stole from him everything. To make matters worse, Cú Roí buried CúChulainn in sand and shaved off his hair, subjecting him to humiliation by all
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cu roi macdaire lives at caherconree in kerry mountains. he's the only one to beat cuchulainn #cattleraidofcooley

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: I would like to change the Tain Bó Cuailgne! #CúChulainn would still have to kill his foster brother to preserve his honour as a warrior. But by the end of the cattle raid, Ferdiad would be almost fully recovered thanks to superior #druidic healing skills.
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RT @TheVikingAxeman@twitter.com
Meet Airmed, the Irish Goddess of healing (mainly herbal). She belongs to the enclave of healers, within the Thuata the Danaan, along with her brother (Miach, god of surgery),and her father Diancecht (god of medecine and magical healing).

Was Bricriu Nemhthenga a villain or just a bitter-tongued poet? Bricriu is said to have been killed near the #Ulster lake that bears his name, Loughbrickland, where he made a slighting remark about the sexual appetite of queen #Medb and was brained by her lover Fergus mac Róich.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Bricriu incited 3 heroes #CúChulainn, Conall Cernach & Lóegaire Búadach, to compete for the champion's portion at his feast. In every test that is set Cú Chulainn comes out top but neither Conall nor Lóegaire will accept the result! Red the beheading story! #FolkloreThursday

Bricriu Nemhthenga made a slighting remark about the sexual appetite of queen #Medb and was brained by her lover Fergus mac Róich.
A villain or just a poet with a poisonous tongue?
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Bricriu incited 3 heroes #CúChulainn, Conall Cernach & Lóegaire Búadach, to compete for the champion's portion at his feast. In every test that is set Cú Chulainn comes out top but neither Conall nor Lóegaire will accept the result! Red the beheading story! #FolkloreThursday

#FolkloreThursday: #Celtic hero #CúChulainn was originally called Setanta, but got the name CúChulainn after the seven-year-old killed the hound („Cú“) of the smith Culann. In the tails he is said to have had a fierce temper and was a mighty warrior. In one story it is described that three vats of ice cold water were required to cool down his temperature.
Source: https://www.askaboutireland.ie/narrative-notes/cuchulainn/index.xml

#Caherconree for #Celtic #HillfortsWednesday: #Cúchulainn, goaded by King #Ailill of #Connaught, went into a fighting frenzy when he was locked up behind the doors of the guest house in Temair Luachra. After three unsuccessful attempts of the attackers from #Munster, he put them to flight.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Irland` #IronAge #hillfort

Besides Dún Scaith on the #IsleOfSkye a second one appears on the Isle of Man as a portal through which #Cúchulainn’s warriors invaded the #Celtic #Otherworld to gain possession of its magical cauldron of abundance.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @NeuKelte@twitter.com
Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at Dún Scáith on the #IsleOfSkye: #Scáthach was reputed to train only those young warriors already skilled and brave enough to penetrate the many defences of her fortress and gain access. 
Scáthach appears in the Irish legends because one of those who
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#CúChulainn stood at the ford that ultimately bore Ferdiad’s name (now Ardee, Co. Louth), gaining glory and wreaking havoc, killing one warrior after another in single combat. Finally Medb promised her fair daughter Finnabair to Ferdiad if he would fight, and he reluctantly agreed. For three days the well-matched pair fought, neither gaining the upper hand. But at last, Cúchulainn used his magical spear, GÁE BULGA, to kill his foster brother, although to win in such circumstances caused him great sorrow.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @GodysseyPodcast@twitter.com
CuChulainn and Ferdiad were foster brothers and best friends, whose bound could not be broken by political strife. Yet when they fought CuChulainn could not break Ferdiad's impenetrable skin: so he tried his anus, killing him. #MythologyMonday

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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: The #Irish hero Fráech was the son of the goddess Bébinn and thus was half-divine. His appearance was entirely divine, for he was the most handsome man in #Ireland. Facing the greatest of Irish heroes, #CúChulainn, at a ford in the River Dee during the Cattle Raid on #Ulster, Fráech lost his life in combat, and his lover Finnabair died of grief.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

It is so sad! Duties forced father and son into a duel to the death. #CúChulainn had to defend his land against any intruder. But then again his son Connla was determined to keep his father's gessa: not to make himself known, never to turn out of the way for any man, nor ever to refuse a combat.
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Cuchulainn dutifully defended his home against the invader who would not identify himself. So, Cuchulainn challenged him and then slew him: he soon found it was only a boy, and he wore the ring Cuchulainn gave to Aoife to identify their son: this was Connla. #MythologyMonday

 #Mythology: The famous Gáe Bulga (Bolga, Bolg) was given to #CúChulainn by his teacher, the warrior woman #Scáthach. The Gáe Bulga seems to have been a spear or javelin (gáe) that could slice through flesh, thus giving its bearer an immense advantage in battle. Cúchulainn used it to kill the two men most dear to him: his son Connla and his foster brother Ferdiad.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at Dún Scáith on the #IsleOfSkye: #Scáthach was reputed to train only those young warriors already skilled and brave enough to penetrate the many defences of her fortress and gain access.  https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1556395902214049793

The #Mórrígan (Morrigan, the Morrigan, Mórrígna, Mórrigu, Mór-Ríoghain) is one of a group of gloomy #Irish war goddesses. Despite, or perhaps because of, her connection with war, Mórrígan is also depicted as having an immense sexual appetite. In one memorable myth, she had intercourse with the father god, the Dagda, who came upon her while she was straddling a river and, overwhelmed by her massive charms, fell upon her lustfully. In another tale, she so desired the great hero #CúChulainn that she ambushed him, but when he rejected her, she turned upon him in fury and was injured in their fight.

The meaning of Morrígán’s name is disputed, with some saying that it means “phantom queen” and others “death queen,” while still others derive it from a presumed early Indo- European goddess Rigatona, “great queen.”

Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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RT @ElsaMc1878@twitter.com
#WyrdWednesday
In folklore & legend crows & ravens are often regarded as harbingers of doom, but they can also be the means of divination & prophecy bearing messages from the gods. The Celtic goddess Morrigan often appears in the form of these ambiguous birds.
🎨Jessica Galbreth

Nua-#CelticSoulJourney at Dún Scáith on the #IsleOfSkye: In the #IronAge different moral values apparently applied. As part of his training #Cúchulainn helped #Scáthach overcome a neighbouring female chieftain, Aífe or Aoife (who by some accounts was also Scáthach's sister),
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#Celtic #LegendaryWednesday: From the corners of #Cúchulainn`s battle helmet resounded the voice of a hundred men, as at his attack the #Bánánaig, the #Boccánaig and the #Geniti Glinne roared.
Source: Rudolf Thurneysen `Die #irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum 17. Jahrhundert`

#CúChulainn underwent perfection training in weaponry with the famous warrioress #Scáthach in #Scotland. Despite a promise of chastity to his bride #Emer, #CúChulainn impregnated #Scáthach's sister #Aoife there. From this sprang #Conla. When the latter had grown into a "little naughty boy", #CúChulainn had to kill him to preserve his honor. A prohibition forbade the greatest hero of #Ulster not only to refuse the duel, but also to be represented by another warrior.
Source: F. Le Roux/C.-J. Guyoncarc'h `Die #Druiden`

#Celtic #Mythology: #Cuchulainn and #Emer were a childless couple. Since Emer`s father, #Forgall Manach, wanted to prevent the union of the two, he secretly initiated #CúChulainn to undergo perfection training in weaponry with the famous warrior #Scáthach in #Scotland. The Lord of Luglochta Logo hoped the rigors would overwhelm the hero of #Ulster and he would be killed. Despite a promise of chastity to #Emer, #CúChulainn impregnated #Scáthach's sister #Aoife there.
Possibly #Cuchulainn and #Emer would not have remained childless if in their wedding night the king of #Ulster had not exercised his "right of the first night". While #Conchobar mac Nessa feared # CúChulain`s reaction, he would have lost his authority if he had renounced his privilege. To preserve #Emer's virginity, #Conchobar shared the bed with #Cuchulainn's wife on her wedding night, but the #druid #Cathbad slept between them.

#FaustianFriday: Behind the doors of the guesthouse in Temair Luachra, the royal castle of the Érainn, a nasty surprise awaited the warriors of #Ulster. #Cúchulainn chose the largest guest house. He did not know that this one was built of iron and only covered with wood.
Late in the evening the doors were barred from the outside. With 7 iron chains the doors and walls of the iron house in Temair Luachra were secured. In the vault under the house now 3x50 blacksmiths brought the fire to blaze. The heroic warriors of #Ulster were to be burned.

How did the warriors of #Ulster escape being burned behind the doors of the guest house in Temair Luachra? Together, the #Ulster men tipped a wall outward, slaying 300 Érainn. Cúchulainn, goaded by King #Ailill of #Connaught, went into a fighting frenzy and put the attackers from #Munster to flight.
Source: Sylvia Botheroyd `#Irland` #IronAge #hillfort