The Raid for Dartaid's Cattle

(Táin bó Dartada, Egerton 1782, Yellow Book of Lecan. Trans. A. H. Leahy)

This tale is given by Windisch (Irische Texte, II. pp. 185-205), from two versions; one, whose ...

EGO Nemnius Elvodugi discipulus,

OF THE KINGS OF THE ROMANS HERE.

OF THE CONQUEST OF ERI, AS RECORDED BY NENNIUS.

OF THE ADVENTURES OF GAEDEL, AS FOLLOWS.

HERE FOLLOWS OF THE CONQUEST OF THE SAXONS.

OF THE MIRACLES OF GERMAN HERE.

THE FORTRESS OF AMBROSE, AND OF HIS CONTEST WITH THE DRUIDS.

OF THE WARFARE OF GORTIMER.

INCIPIT CONCERNING THE WONDERS OF THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN HERE.

THE WONDERS OF MANANN DOWN HERE.

OF THE CRUITHNIANSC INCIPIT.

[HERE FOLLOWS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE CRUITHNIANS.]

I. OF THE MIRACLES OF CAIRNECH HERE.

II. OF THE WONDERS OF ERI HERE ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF GLEN-DA-LOCHA.

III. DUAN EIREANNACH.

IV. DUAN ALBANACH.

1. After Finnen of Moville

When the sons of Mil of Spain reached Erin,

"Who shall go there?" asked Cu Roi.

(Táin bó Dartada, Egerton 1782, Yellow Book of Lecan. Trans. A. H. Leahy)

CHAPTER I: MAILDUN'S CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. HE BEGINS HIS VOYAGE IN QUEST OF THE PLUNDERERS WHO SLEW HIS FATHER

CHAPTER II: THE FIRST ISLAND. TIDINGS OF THE PLUNDERERS

CHAPTER III: THE ISLAND OF THE MONSTROUS ANTS

CHAPTER IV: THE TERRACED ISLE OF BIRDS

CHAPTER V: A MONSTER

CHAPTER VI: THE DEMON HORSE-RACE

CHAPTER VII: THE PALACE OF SOLITUDE

CHAPTER VIII: THE ISLAND OF THE WONDERFUL APPLE TREE

CHAPTER IX: THE ISLAND OF BLOODTHIRSTY QUADRUPEDS

CHAPTER X: AN EXTRAORDINARY MONSTER

CHAPTER XI: THE ISLE OF RED-HOT ANIMALS

CHAPTER XII: THE PALACE OF THE LITTLE CAT

CHAPTER XIII: AN ISLAND THAT DYED BLACK AND WHITE

CHAPTER XIV: THE ISLAND OF THE BURNING RIVER

CHAPTER XV: THE MILLER OF HELL

CHAPTER XVI: THE ISLE OF WEEPING

CHAPTER XVII: THE ISLE OF THE FOUR PRECIOUS WALLS

CHAPTER XVIII: THE PALACE OF THE CRYSTAL BRIDGE

CHAPTER XIX: THE ISLE OF SPEAKING BIRDS

CHAPTER XX: THE AGED HERMIT, AND THE HUMAN SOULS

CHAPTER XXI: THE ISLAND OF THE BIG BLACKSMITHS

CHAPTER XXII: THE CRYSTAL SEA

CHAPTER XXIII: A LOVELY COUNTRY BENEATH THE WAVES

CHAPTER XXIV: AN ISLAND GUARDED BY A WALL OF WATER

CHAPTER XXV: A WATER-ARCH IN THE AIR

CHAPTER XXVI: THE SILVER PILLAR OF THE SEA

CHAPTER XXVII: AN ISLAND STANDING ON ONE PILLAR

CHAPTER XXVIII: THE ISLAND QUEEN DETAINS THEM WITH HER MAGIC THREAD-CLEW.

CHAPTER XXIX: THE ISLE OF INTOXICATING WINE-FRUITS

CHAPTER XXX: THE ISLE OF THE MYSTIC LAKE

CHAPTER XXXI: THE ISLE OF LAUGHING

CHAPTER XXXII: THE ISLE OF THE BLEST

CHAPTER XXXIII: THE HERMIT OF THE SEA-ROCK

CHAPTER XXXIV: SIGNS OF HOME

CHAPTER XXXV: MAILDUN MEETS HIS ENEMY, AND ARRIVES HOME

A great army was mustered

The Story in Due Order

The Eulogy of Cú Chulainn

The Boyhood Deeds

The Death of the Boys

The Fight between Eógan mac Durthacht and Conchobar

The fate of the twenty-seven men and the reason why none dared to wound the Ulstermen when they were in their debility.

The killing of the Smith's Hound by Cú Chulainn and the reason why he is called Cú Chulainn

The Death of Nechta Scéne's Three Sons

A different Version up to the Death of Órlám

Neue SeiteThe Death of Fráech

Fergus leapt across the oak-tree in his own chariot.

The Death of Órlám

The Death of the three Sons of Gárach

The Death of the Marten and of the Pet Bird

The Death of Lethan

The Death of Lócha

The Death of Úalu

The Harrying of Cúailnge

The death of Etarcomol and the terms offered by the men of Ireland as told to Cú Chulainn by Fergus:

The Death of Nad Crantail

The Finding of the Bull according to this Version

The Meeting of Cú Chulainn and Finnabair

The Combat of Munremar and Cú Roí

The Death of the Youths