The Boyhood Deeds of Cu Chulainn
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Description: Traces the childhood of this boy eager to become a warrior, always throwing his toy weapons and asking to hear battle stories.
The Boyhood Deeds of Cu Chulainn "This boy," said Fergus, " was reared in his father's and his mother's house, by the seaside northwards in the plain of Muirthemene, where someone gave him an account of the macrad or "boy-corps"of Emain Macha; how that Chochobar divides his day into three parts: the first being devoted to watching the boy-corps at their sport, especially that of hurling; the second to the playing of chess and draughts; the third to pleasurable consuming of meat and drink until drowsiness sets in, which then is promoted by the exertions of minstrels and musicians to indulge favorable placidity of mind and disposition. And, for all that we are banished from," continued Fergus "by my word I swear that neither in Ireland nor in Scotland is there a warrior like his (i.e., Conchobar's) counterpart. The little, lad then, as aforesaid, having heard of all this, one day told his mother that he was bent on a visit to Emain Macha to test the boy-corps at their own sports. The objected that he was immature, and ought to wait until some grown warrior or other, or some confidential of Conchobar's should in order to insure his safety, bind over the boy-corps to keep the peace toward him. He told his mother that that was too long an outlook, that he could not wait, and that all she had to do was to set him a course for Emain Macha, since he did not know in which direction it lay.
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