Morrigan

Also known as: Faebor-begbeoil-cuimdiuir-folt-scenbgairit-sceo-uath · First appears: The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1

Life events

Morrigan brought a cow from the fairy-mound of Cruachan as a fee for a master-poem.(The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1 · 📍 Cruachan)
- 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.”
Morrigan disappeared with the chariot and cow, then appeared to Cuchulain as a black bird.(The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1)
- “Cuchulain threw a spring at her chariot, and he saw not the horse, nor the woman, nor the chariot, nor the man, nor the cow. Then he saw that she had become a black bird upon a branch near to him.”
Cuchulain returned to Dun Imrid, while Morrigan went with her cow to the fairy mound of Cruachan.(The Apparition of the Great Queen · Literal Translation · Part 1 · 📍 Dun Imrid)
- With: Cuchulain
- “They separated, and Cuchulain went back again to Dun Imrid, and the Morrigan with her cow to the fairy mound of Cruachan”

with Cuchulain (Morrigan warns that her actions will bring evil to Cuchulain.) “What thou hast done,” said she, “shall be evil to thee from it.”
with Daire mac Fiachna (She brings him a cow as the fee for a poem.) “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.”

Extracted from the original text of Heroic Romances of Ireland. Made with Rho MD.