Cuchulainn

'Cuchulainn's man,' said he, 'and do not disturb me, lest I strike your head off.'

Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

Cuchulainn - the Hound of Culann, an Irish hero who's best known for starring in "The Cattle Raid of Cooley".

Caligula For President Rogers 2008

Um...it was Cuchulainn, not Caligula, who waged war against the sea.

Caligula For President Rogers 2008

At the sick of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer, the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair.

The Pogues Give N.Y. a St. Patty's Day Treat 2006

(Soundbite of song "The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn") THE POGUES: (Singing) ... who was cursing all the yids.

The Pogues Give N.Y. a St. Patty's Day Treat 2006

But I will say that it reminded me entirely too much of the stories I grew up with, of Cuchulainn, of Fionn and the Fianna, of Clann Lir.

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006

As for more exotic material, well, what was somebody like Cuchulainn but one more foredoomed hero, such as they'd heard scores of yarns about?

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

The heroic fantasy traces its ancestry back to the myths and epics of ancient times - to the stories of Odysseus and Rustam and Sigurd and Cuchulainn.

Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

"My three best champions shall go to bring them back from their exile," and he named Conall the Victorious, Cuchulainn, and Fergus, the son of Rossa the Red.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Then, at the bidding of Cuchulainn, the Ultonian, three graves were dug for the brothers, but the grave of Naoise was made wider than the others, and when he was placed in it, standing upright, with his head placed on his shoulders, Deirdrê stood by him and held him in her white arms, and murmured to him of the love that was theirs and of which not Death itself could rob them.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang