The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge

Glas Mac Delgna

First appears: Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan)

In “Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan),” Glas Mac Delgna is the sister’s son of Gaile-dana and joins him and his twenty-seven sons in throwing spears at Cuchulainn. Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe leaps from his chariot and strikes off the arms of all twenty-nine attackers; Cuchulainn then slays them, including Glas.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Fiacha struck off the arms of the twenty-nine attackers as they threatened Cuchulainn.(Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan))
  • Cuchulainn slew the twenty-nine attackers and the two sons of Ficce.(Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan))
    • With: Cuchulainn Gaile-dana
    • “Cuchulainn slew then the twenty-nine men and the two sons of Ficce with them, two bold warriors of Ulster who came to ply their might on the host.”

Continuation (from the Yellow Book of Lecan)

  • elder kin: Gaile-dana “Gaile-dana with his twenty-seven sons and his sister's son, Glas Mac Delgna.”
  • enemies with Cuchulainn “They threw their twenty-nine spears at him at once; i.e. Gaile-dana with his twenty-seven sons and his sister's son, Glas Mac Delgna.”
  • enemies with Fiacha Mac Fir-Febe “He gave a leap from his chariot when he saw all their hands against Cuchulainn, and he strikes off the arms of the twenty-nine of them.”

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