Heroic Romances of Ireland

Ethne Aitencaithrech

Family: Ulstermen · Role: Conor's wife · First appears: The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1

Life events

  • Cuchulain caught birds and distributed them among the women, leaving Ethne without a pair.(The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1 · 📍 Murthemne Plain)
    • With: Cuchulain Ethne Inguba Leborcham
    • “And they seized upon all the birds, and they gave them and distributed them among the women; nor was there any one of the women, except Ethne alone, who had not a pair of those birds.”

The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1

  • married with Conor “‘How I wish,’ said Ethne Aitencaithrech, Conor's wife, ‘that I could have two of those birds, one of them upon each of my two shoulders.’”

Also listed in Ulstermen — Minor Figures

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