Texts

Tecosc Cuscraid ‘The instruction to Cúscraid’

Early Irish
Ulster Cycle, Medieval Irish wisdom literature

A short series of precepts addressed to Cúscraid Mend Macha, Conchobor’s son and heir, by his foster-father Conall Cernach. The text is found in the introductory part of the tale of Cath Airtig.

Speaker/Addressee

Speaker: Conall Cernach

Conall Cernach

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

Warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle; son of Amergin and Findchóem. In Irish genealogies, he is presented as an ancestor of the kings of the Dál nAraidi and the Uí Echach Coba.

Addressee: Cúscraid Mend Macha

Cúscraid Mend Macha

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

warrior in the Ulster Cycle, son of the Ulster king Conchobar mac Nessa.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 pp 708-776 (comprising parts of vols 22 and 23), pp 792-809 (comprising part of vol. 23) [1616]

pp. 724–725

context: Cath Airtig

Language

Early Irish

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

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Subjects

Conall Cernach

Conall Cernach

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

Warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle; son of Amergin and Findchóem. In Irish genealogies, he is presented as an ancestor of the kings of the Dál nAraidi and the Uí Echach Coba.

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Cúscraid Mend Macha

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

warrior in the Ulster Cycle, son of the Ulster king Conchobar mac Nessa.