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There are a number of versions of the story of Cú Chulainn's miraculous birth. In the earliest version of Compert C(h)on Culainn ("The Conception of Cú Chulainn"), his mother Deichtine is the daughter and charioteer of King Conchobar mac Nessa of Ulster, and accompanies him as he and the nobles of Ulster hunt a flock of magical birds. As snow ...
The tale exists in two main recensions. The earliest witness of the first version is the Lebor na hUidre (LU), compiled in the 12th century. The principal scribe (M) was responsible for writing down the main text, while a later reviser (H) erased the ending to make room for his own sequel from the time of Cú Chulainn's birth.
The early Irish tale Tochmarc Emire exists in two (main) recensions. [1] The earliest and shortest version is extant only as a copy in a late manuscript, the 15th/16th-century Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512, where it lacks the first part, beginning instead with the last riddle exchanged between Cú Chulainn and Emer. [1] The text has been dated by Kuno Meyer to the tenth century. [2]
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Fothad na Canone, "Cu Aed Ordnithe" 149a 622 Moling (ascribed), "Rochuala la nech legas libru" 149a 623 Fithal Fíle & Cormac an Fíle (ascr.), "Niba me linfes do neoch dara thráth" 149a 625 "A Chormaic coisc do maicni" 149a 627 Teist Chathail meic Finguine (poem) 149b 629 Diarmait mac Cerbaill (ascr.), "Mairg thochras ri clerchib cell" 150a 632
The story of the Knight of the Swan (Chevalier au Cygne) is a medieval tale about the defense of a damsel by mysterious rescuer in a swan-drawn boat. The Crusader cycle of chanson de gestes reworked the story to have the hero a legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon. [377] The history of Helyas, Knight of the Swan (1901). [378]
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