Cur

Also known as: Cur Mac Dalath · Family: Men of Ireland · Role: warrior · First appears: The Death of Cur

In “The Death of Cur,” Cur Mac Dalath is besought to fight Cuchulainn. It is said of Cur that anyone whose blood he sheds dies before the ninth day, and he goes out against Cuchulainn, whom he calls a beardless wild boy.

In “This is the Number of the Feats,” Cur is slain in single combat with Cuchulainn. Cuchulainn throws a feat-apple through the gap between Cur’s shield’s rim and body, and it passes through Cur’s head.

Relationship record

Life events

• Cur Mac Dalath, of whom it is said that anyone whose blood he sheds is dead before the ninth day, is besought to go against Cuchulainn.(The Death of Cur)
  • With: Cuchulainn
  • “He from whom he shed blood, he is dead before the ninth day.”
• Cur, Lath Mac Dabro, Foirc, and Srubgaile Mac Eobith were slain in single combat.(This is the Number of the Feats)
  • With: Cuchulainn Lath Mac Dabro Foirc Srubgaile Mac Eobith
  • “They remained there until there were slain there Cur Mac Dalath, and Lath Mac Dabro, and Foirc, son of the three Swifts, and Srubgaile Mac Eobith. They were all slain there in single combat.”
• Cuchulainn threw the feat-apple that remained in his hand, so that it went between the rim and the body of Cur's shield and through his head.(This is the Number of the Feats)
  • With: Cuchulainn Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe
  • “Cuchulainn looked at him; he threw the feat-apple that remained in his hand, so that it went between the rim and the body of the shield, and went back through the head of the churl.”

The Death of Cur

• enemies with Cuchulainn “Then he goes forth. He did not think it good to go against a beardless wild boy.”

This is the Number of the Feats

• enemies with Cuchulainn “Cur was plying his weapons against him in a fence of his shield till a third of the day; and not a stroke of the blow reached Cuchulainn for the madness of the feats, and he did not know that a man was trying to strike him, till Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe said to him: 'Beware of the man who is attacking you.'”

Also listed in Men of Ireland — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge. Made with Rho MD.