Figure Celtic, Slavic and Baltic
Cú Chulainn
Irish mythological hero
Overview
Irish mythological heroWikidata record description. Read Cú Chulainn in the Wikipedia reader.
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Family tree
As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
The family as a list · 10
Kinship in an account 2
Family 8
- child of (mother) Deichtine Irish mythological figure
- child of (father) Lugh Irish mythological character and probable deity
- child of (father) Súaltam Irish mythological character
- parent of (child) Connla Irish mythological character; son of the Ulster champion Cú Chulainn and the Scottish warrior woman Aífe
- partner of Aífe character from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology
- partner of Fand water deity
- partner of Uathach Irish and Scottish mythological figure
- married to Emer Irish mythological figure
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 1
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
Affiliation 1
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Traditions recorded mostly by outsiders, or after conversion, or from folklore.