Buide mac Báin
Ailill's man who drives the stolen bull toward the camp and is speared at a ford by Cúchulainn.
Overview
Buide mac Báin leads three score of Ailill's men, all in cloaks, down from Sliab Cuilinn with the Brown Bull and its heifers. Cúchulainn asks where they got the cattle and where the herdsmen are. They say they found one herdsman and have him with them. Cúchulainn goes after them to the ford in three great strides, asks the leader's name, and throws a short spear through his armpit that severs one of his livers in two. The ford is called Ath Buide after him, and the bull gets into the camp anyway.
‘One who neither fears nor favours you,’ he said. ‘Buide mac Báin.’
Connections
Related characters
- Ailill (His men are Ailill's)
- Cúchulainn (Speared him through the armpit at the ford)
- Forgaimen (The herdsman his troop captured with the bull)
Connected to
- Donn Cuailnge (leads the men who bring him into the camp)
Places
- Ath Buide (The ford named after him)
- Cuib
- Sliab Cuilinn (The mountain his troop came from with the bull)
Appears in chapters
Appears in
- Buide mac Báin leads Ailill's men and the bull past Cúchulainn, and Cúchulainn goes to the ford after them. At Ath Buide. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
- Cúchulainn throws a short spear through Buide's armpit at the ford, and the ford takes its name from him. At Ath Buide. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
- Cúchulainn catches Buide mac Báin with sixty of Ailill's men and the bull among fifteen heifers, and kills Buide with a short spear at the ford now called Ath Buide. At Cuib. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
- Cúchulainn sees Buide mac Báin coming from Sliab Cuilinn with the bull and fifteen heifers, and goes up to meet him. At Sliab Cuilinn. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.