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The Heroic Biography of Cú Chulainn
Early Irish literature is romantic, idealised, stylised and gruesome. It shows a tension between reality and fantasy ’which seem to me to be usually an irresolvable dichotomy. The stories set themselves in pre-history. It presents these texts as a “window on the iron age”. The writers may have been …
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The role of Cú Chulainn in Old and Middle Irish narrative literature with particular reference to tales belonging to the Ulster Cycle.
… III considers the key area of Cú Chulainn’s heroic biography. This encompasses a study of his depiction in a number of tales including Táin Bó Cúailnge. In a bid to provide a well-rounded evaluation of the hero, a number of key thematic elements are addressed in the remaining chapters. …
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Pivotal moments in the formation of the medieval Irish hero: conception/birth and death, and the case of Conall Cernach
… to be, occupying a role they cannot attain. In heroic literature, conception- and birth-related narratives are part of the prefiguring of the hero; Otherworldly elements and/or a god/goddess are frequently involved in the begetting of the hero, who may sometimes be interpreted as a mortal …