Celtchar

Also known as: Celtchar of Ulster / Celtchar, the son of Uitechar / Celthar · Family: Ulstermen · Role: warrior · First appears: Mac Datho's Boar · Part 1

In Part 1 of Mac Datho’s Boar, Celtchar says he slew Dedad’s son and cut off his head. In Part 2, the Ulster company identifies him as “Celtchar, the son of Uitechar”; Ket says he wounded Celtchar through the leg and groin, leaving him diseased and unable to have children from that hour. In Part 2 of The Sick-bed of Cuchulain, a verse speaks conditionally of what Cuchulain would do if Celthar were kept sick; it does not recount an event between them.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ket says he wounded Celtchar, leaving him diseased and unable to have children.(Mac Datho's Boar · Part 2)
  • With: Ket
  • “my spear pierced thee through the leg and through the groin, so that from that hour thou hast been diseased, nor hath son or daughter been born to thee.”

Mac Datho's Boar · Part 1

• parent: Dedad “I myself slew that horny-skinned son of Dedad, I cut the head from his shoulders.”

Mac Datho's Boar · Part 2

• parent: Uitechar (father of Celtchar) “'Tis Celtchar, the son of Uitechar,” cried all.”

The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 2

• friends with Cuchulain “Had thus crafty Celthar slept, Long, like him, by sickness kept;”

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