Cormac Cond Longas appears within the narrative world of the Ulster Cycle. He is presented as the eldest son of Conchobar mac Nessa, with sources naming either Clothru or Ness as his mother. Following the Deirdre affair, Cormac was fostered by Fergus mac Róich and followed Fergus into exile in Connacht. There he entered the service of Ailill and Medb and fought for Connacht against his native Ulster in the central epic Táin Bó Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley). After the events of the Táin and the death of Conchobar, the Ulstermen asked Cormac to return to Ulster as their king, but he was killed on his homeward journey after being compelled to break his geasa (taboos) when the hostel in which he and his men were staying was raided.
The supplied sources provide no physical description of Cormac Cond Longas. He is characterized through social markers and roles: as an aristocratic prince (the epithet glossed 'Exiled Prince'), eldest son or royal scion of Conchobar mac Nessa in some accounts, and as a foster-son of the warrior Fergus mac Róich. His depiction in the narrative is thus built from titles, kinship, fosterage ties, and martial status rather than bodily detail.
Cormac's capabilities in the sources are those of a high-status human warrior and potential ruler rather than supernatural powers. He fought prominently in the Táin Bó Cuailnge on behalf of Connacht, and is explicitly recorded as having restrained Fergus mac Róich from killing Conchobar, showing decisive agency and martial authority. Politically, he was recognized by the Ulstermen as a legitimate successor after Conchobar's death, being asked to return as king. The sources do not attribute any magical or otherworldly abilities to him; his strengths are social legitimacy, fosterage loyalties, leadership potential, and combat skill.
Weaknesses
- conditionvulnerability to mortal injury
- conditionfatal consequence of breaking geasa (taboos)
Wards
- otherNo wards recorded
Ailill
Ailill (variants Ailell, Oilioll) is an Old Irish male personal name prominent in Irish legendary and early medieval sources. It was borne by numerous kings, druidic figures, and clerics across mytho-historical and historical traditions and is said in the cited material to mean something like "beauty."
Medb
Medb is the legendary queen of Connacht in the Irish Ulster Cycle, presented as a powerful royal figure and a sovereignty-woman who embodies the land's power to grant kingship. She is famed as the instigator of the Táin Bó Cúailnge and is etymologically associated with mead/intoxication and rulership.
Abandinus
Abandinus is a locally attested Romano‑Celtic theonym known from a single inscribed bronze feather (votive object) dedicated at Godmanchester (the Roman fort Durovigutum) in Cambridgeshire. Scholars interpret him as a local god or male spirit tied to a specific place and possibly associated with a nearby spring or stream; this association is tentative and based on etymological readings of the name.
Abarta (Ábartach)
Abarta (also Ábartach) is a figure of Irish myth who, in surviving accounts, tricks Fionn mac Cumhaill's warriors by giving them a supernatural grey horse that bears them into the Otherworld. Sources variably identify him as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann or as a Fomorian; after the incident he is compelled to release the captured warriors and is refused entry to the Fianna.
Abcán (Abhcán)
Abcán (modern spelling Abhcán) is a named dwarf poet and musician of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish myth. He appears in a small number of narratives as a musician whose art has soporific power and as the ferryman who brings the goddess Ruad from the Otherworld to the human world.
Abhean
Abhean is a named poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann in medieval Irish literature, described as a poet in particular of Lugh and recorded as having been killed by Óengus before Midir in a poem by Fland Mainistreach preserved in the Lebor Gabála Érenn.
Abnoba
Abnoba is a Gaulish theonym and toponym attested in Roman-era sources and inscriptions: a localized deity associated with woods, springs and the sources of rivers (notably the Danube) and simultaneously the name applied to a mountain or mountain range in the Black Forest/Baar/Odenwald region. Roman altars equate her with Diana, reflecting syncretic cult practice in frontier provinces.
Accolon
Accolon is a mortal knight of the Arthurian court, presented in the Post-Vulgate Merlin tradition and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur as Morgan le Fay's paramour and instrument in a plot to supplant King Arthur; his tale centers on enchanted weapons (Excalibur and its scabbard), love-manipulation, and a tragic duel with Arthur.
Achall
Achall is an eponymous mortal woman in the Ulster Cycle of early Irish literature whose grief-induced death is given as the origin of the hill-name Achall (identified with the modern Hill of Skryne). She appears as a genealogical and etiological figure tied to Tara and later legendary events at the hill, rather than as a recurring supernatural agent.
Achtland
Achtland is a figure from Irish tradition who, according to the surviving account, was a mortal woman famed for rejecting mortal suitors who married a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann and crossed into the síde to become immortal as his wife.
Adar Llwch Gwin
Legendary large, intelligent birds from Welsh tradition said to understand human speech and obey their master's commands; best known for tearing their master Drudwas ap Tryffin to pieces when bound by a literal order in an Arthurian battle narrative. The term later came to be applied to raptors and metaphorically to brave men in medieval Welsh poetry.
Adar Rhiannon
Adar Rhiannon ('birds of Rhiannon') are a set of three magical birds in medieval Welsh narrative (the Mabinogi) whose song can 'wake the dead and lull the living to sleep.' They appear as otherworldly song‑beings tied to the figure Rhiannon and function within tales as providers of enchanted music that sustains and consoles characters.
Aderyn y Corff
Aderyn y Corff (literally 'bird of the corpse') is a bird-like death-porter in Welsh folklore said to call outside the door of a person about to die. Described as an avian portent that may lack feathers or wings and as existing on another plane when not manifesting, it is treated in Welsh ghost lore and sometimes naturalized as a screech owl in modern accounts.
Adhene
A class of Manx fairies (Cloan ny moyrn) described in Isle of Man tradition as a social people of beings said to be "fallen angels cast from heaven but too good for hell," who interact with human livelihoods and families, sometimes benevolent but often mischievous.
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