How Cuchulain Got His NameThat evening at supper, Meave sat silent, as though she were revolving matters in her mind. When supper was ended and she and her husband and Fergus, with one or two others of her chief captains, sat in the tent-door around the fire, looking out on the hosts who rested at close of day by the forest fires, singing and telling tales, as was their wont after the evening meal, Meave said to Fergus, "Just now you spoke of that little boy as Setanta, but I have heard him called Cuchulain, or Culain's Hound; how did he get that name?"
And Cormac, Conor's son, answered eagerly, "I will tell you that story myself, for I was present, and I know the way of it."
"Well, tell us now," said Meave and Ailill both at once.
And Cormac said—"In Ulster, near Cuchulain's country, w
