The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic
The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic
Faraday L. Winifred
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Cuchulainn kills that man, and tookhis head and his arms. '"Take heed of another man who comes towards you, " said thecharioteer. "Tuachell [Note: i. E. 'Cunning. '] is his name. It is nomisname for him, for he does not fall by arms at all. " '"Here is the javelin for him to confuse him, so that it may makea red-sieve of him, " said Cuchulainn. 'He cast the spear at him, so that it reached him in his ----. ThenHe went to him and cut off his head. Cuchulainn gave his head andhis accoutrements to... his own charioteer. He heard then the cry oftheir mother, Nechta Scene, behind them. 'He puts their spoils and the three heads in his chariot with him, and said: "I will not leave my triumph, " said he, "till I reachEmain Macha. " 'then they set out with his triumph. 'Then Cuchulainn said to the charioteer: "You promised us a goodrun, " said he, "and we need it now because of the strife and thepursuit that is behind us. " They go on to Sliab Fuait; and such wasthe speed of the run that they made over Breg after the spurring ofthe charioteer, that the horses of the chariot overtook the windand the birds in flight, and that Cuchulainn caught the throw thathe sent from his sling before it reached the ground.
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