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The seven Maines

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In the Ulster Cycle, the seven Maines (na secht Maine) are a collective designation for the seven, or eight, sons of Medb and Ailill, all of whom are named Maine: Maine Máithremail and Maine Aithremail, Maine Míngor and Maine Mórgor, Maine Andóe, Maine Milscothach and/or Maine Mó Epert, and Maine Conda(s)gaib/Cotagaib Uile.


See also: Ailill mac Máta
Ailill mac Máta
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of Connacht, husband of Medb of Connacht
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Connacht/Cúige Chonnacht
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Maine Milscothach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
One of the seven Maines, sons of Ailill and Medb in the Ulster Cycle; or one of two or three different characters in the tale of Togail bruidne Da Derga.
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Medb of Crúachan
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Queen of the Connachta, co-ruler with her husband Ailill mac Máta, in the Ulster Cycle. She is said to have a daughter, Findabair, and seven sons known as the seven Maines. Her lover is Fergus mac Róich.
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Rhŷs, John, Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom [The Hibbert Lectures 1886], 2nd ed., London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1892.
Internet Archive: <link>
366–370 [‘IV. The culture hero’] In a discussion of the Irish reckoning of the noínden, suggests that na secht Maine represent the seven days of the week (sechtmain).
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