Source recordAncient text
Book of Leinster (Lebor Laignech)
Áed Ua Crimthainn and other scribes · c. 1160 · Middle Irish
Ancient text
Book of Leinster (Lebor Laignech)
Áed Ua Crimthainn and other scribes
Twelfth-century Irish manuscript compiled largely at Terryglass, preserving among much else a version of the Táin Bó Cúailnge and of the Lebor Gabála Érenn.
About this work
Twelfth-century Irish manuscript compiled largely at Terryglass, preserving among much else a version of the Táin Bó Cúailnge and of the Lebor Gabála Érenn.
Stories drawn from it
Retellings in the atlas that quote or cite this work.
The Tain Bo CuailngeepicQueen Medb of Connacht invades Ulster to seize the Brown Bull of Cooley, but finds the province's warriors struck helpless by a curse. Only the seventeen-year-old hero Cu Chulainn stands against her entire army, fighting alone at the fords.
The Death of Cu ChulainndeathThe greatest hero of Ulster meets his end when his enemies use his own sacred geasa against him, forcing him to break taboo after taboo until he can be killed.
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