Tochmarc Étaíne
prose
Tochmarc Lúaine ocus Aided Athairne
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Tochmarc Treblainne
form undefined
Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II
Toichim na mbuidenprose
Episode in Táin bó Cúailnge (Recensions I and II), in which Ailill and Medb watch the approaching Ulaid through intermediaries. It employs the so-called ‘watchman device’, in which a watchman with keen sight, here Mac Roth, offers a visually rich if puzzling description of what he sees and in which an interpreter of the description, here Fergus mac Róich, is able to identify the approaching characters.
Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II
Ús in Duib Chúalngni for táinprose
The final episode of the Táin (I, II) and an epilogue to the story of the fight of the two bulls. In the texts, Donn Cúailnge, severely wounded after its triumph over Finnbennach, returns home, scattering body parts of its opponent on the road and giving rise to new placenames. It dies at the end of its journey, either in Druim Tairb (TBC I) or near Taul Tairb (TBC II). Both recensions make use of dinnshenchas in describing the bull’s itinerary, but differ in the placenames they refer to.
Independent, Tochmarc Emire
Verba Scáthaigeverse
beg. A mbé eirr óengaile
Poem in the form of a prophecy delivered by Scáthach to Cú Chulainn.
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