Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race - Knowledge Rush

192 Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race[228][229]So she went to Mananan, and Cuchulain, who did not see thegod, asked Laeg what was happening. “Fand,” he replied, “isgoing away with the Son of the Sea, since she hath not beenpleasing in thy sight.”Then Cuchulain bounded into the air and fled from the place,and lay a long time refusing meat and drink, until at last theDruids gave him a draught of forgetfulness; and Mananan, it issaid, shook his cloak between Cuchulain and Fand, so that theymight meet no more throughout eternity. 161The Vengeance of MaevThough Maev made peace with Ulster after the battle ofGarech she vowed the death of Cuchulain for all the shame andloss he had brought upon her and on her province, and she soughthow she might take her vengeance upon him.Now the wife of the wizard Calatin, whom Cuchulain slew atthe Ford, brought forth, after her husband's death, six childrenat a birth, namely, three sons and three daughters. Misshapen,hideous, poisonous, born for evil were they; and Maev, hearingof these, sent them to learn the arts of magic, not in Ireland only,but in Alba; and even as far as Babylon they went to seek forhidden knowledge, and they came back mighty in their craft, andshe loosed them against Cuchulain.Cuchulain and BlanidBesides the Clan Calatin, Cuchulain had also other foes,namely Ere, the King of Ireland, son to Cairpre, whom Cuchulainhad slain in battle, and Lewy son of Curoi, King of Munster. 162For Curoi's wife, Blanid, had set her love on Cuchulain, and shebade him come and take her from Curoi's dūn, and watch histime to attack the dūn, when he would see the stream that flowedfrom it turn white. So Cuchulain and his men waited in a wood161 The cloak of Mananan (see p. 125) typifies the sea—here, in its dividingand estranging power.162 This Curoi appears in various tales of the Ultonian Cycle with attributeswhich show that he was no mortal king, but a local deity.