Other Figures — Minor Figures

94 figures from Heroic Romances of Ireland who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Eochaid Juil

first appears The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 3

• The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 3 · with Cuchulain “Now at early morn Eochaid Juil went out in order to bathe his hands in the spring, and Cuchulain saw his shoulder through the hood of his tunic, and he hurled his spear at him, and he pierced him.”

Ferbay

warrior · first appears The Combat at the Ford · Part 3

• The Combat at the Ford · Part 3 · with Cuchulain “Quickly here his rage I stilled; Cast my spear but once, and killed.”

Morrigan

first appears The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1

• The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1 · with Cuchulain “What thou hast done,” said she, “shall be evil to thee from it.”
• The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1 · with Daire mac Fiachna “I am a female satirist in truth,” she said, “and he is Daire mac Fiachna from Cualnge: I have brought the cow as fee for a master-poem.”

Senach the Unearthly

first appears The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 3

• The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 3 · with Cuchulain “and then Senach the Unearthly assailed him, and a great fight was fought between them, and Cuchulain slew him;”

Srub Darry

warrior · first appears The Combat at the Ford · Part 3

• The Combat at the Ford · Part 3 · with Cuchulain “Cruel fate Srub Darry slew, Tales of hundred dames he knew;”

Uathach

teacher · first appears The Combat at the Ford · Part 1

• The Combat at the Ford · Part 1 · pupil: Ferdia “They had got their skill in arms, and valour, and bravery from the same teachers, from Scathach, from Uathach, and from Aife;”
• The Combat at the Ford · Part 1 · pupil: Cuchulain “They had got their skill in arms, and valour, and bravery from the same teachers, from Scathach, from Uathach, and from Aife;”

the unnamed charioteer of Cuchulain (Chapter 018)

charioteer · first appears The Combat at the Ford · Part 2

• The Combat at the Ford · Part 2 · with Cuchulain “And when the full daylight had come, he commanded his charioteer to harness for him his horses, and to yoke his chariot: ‘O my servant!’ said Cuchulain, ‘harness for us our horses, and put the yoke to our chariot, for early rises the champion who cometh to meet us this day: even Ferdia, the son of Daman, the son of Dare.’”

the unnamed wife of Cuchulain (Chapter 030)

first appears The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1

• The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1 · married with Cuchulain “his wife brought out, as she followed behind him, his arms and his clothing.”