Mac Roth

Family: Connaught · Role: messenger · First appears: This is the Harrying of Cualnge · Part 2

In The Harrying of Cualnge · Part 2, Ailill and Medb sent their messenger Mac Roth to Delga. Ailill also sent him to offer Cuchulainn compensation and service, but Cuchulainn refused to barter his allegiance. In The March of the Companies · Part 1, Mac Roth reported to Ailill that the Ulstermen had emerged from their sickness and come into the wood.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ailill sent Mac Roth to offer Cuchulainn compensation and service, but Cuchulainn refused to barter his allegiance.(This is the Harrying of Cualnge · Part 2)
  • With: Ailill Cuchulainn
  • “Though Cuchulainn were near, he would not do this; he will not barter the brother of his mother for another king.”
• Mac Roth reported that the Ulstermen had emerged from their sickness and come into the wood.(The March of the Companies · Part 1)
  • With: Ailill
  • “'This is the Ulstermen after coming out of their sickness. It is they who have come into the wood.'”

This is the Harrying of Cualnge · Part 2

• employer: Ailill “Mac Roth, the messenger of Ailill and Medb, went on that errand to Delga:”
• employer: Medb “Mac Roth, the messenger of Ailill and Medb, went on that errand to Delga:”

The March of the Companies · Part 1

• employer: Ailill “'Go, O Mac Roth,' said Ailill, 'and look for us whether the men are all in the plain of Meath in which we are. If they have not come, I have carried off their spoil and their cows; let them give battle to me, if it suits them. I will not await them here any longer.'”

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