Celtchar mac Uthidir
Also spelled: Celtchar mac Uthechair
Ulster chariot-warrior from Dún Lethglaise, who rides ahead with Conchobor at the rising of Ulster.
Overview
Celtchar mac Uthidir is one of the Ulster chariot-warriors, owner of the shield Comla Catha, the Door of Battle. Medb says he is still in Dún Lethglaise with a third of Ulster's forces, and Fergus says he never comes to the border country without a full battle-force around him. Medb attacked his wife Finnmór at the capture of Dún Sobairche and took fifty women from her. When Ulster rises, he and Conchobor go ahead with three times fifty chariots and come back with eight score heads from the ford in East Meath, and at Slemain Midi Fergus names him the topmost glory coming, half an army in himself.
Connections
Related characters
- Conchobor (rides ahead with him and chants to him after the raid on the watchers)
- Fergus mac Roich (names him among the men who never cross the border without a battle-force)
- Medb (took fifty women from his wife Finnmór at Dún Sobairche)
Connected to
- Laegaire Buadach (fellow chariot-warrior of Ulster)
Places
- Dún Lethglaise (his home, in the north)
- Dún Sobairche (where Medb captured his wife Finnmór's women)
- Emain Macha
- Gáirech and Irgairech
Appears in chapters
- How Conchobor was Begotten, and how he took the Kingship of Ulster
- Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms
- Chapter II: The Táin Bó Cuailnge Begins
- Chapter III: The Army Encounters Cúchulainn
- Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan
- Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs
- Chapter XIII: The Companies Advance
Appears in
- Medb said that Celtchar mac Uthidir was still in Dún Lethglaise with a third of Ulster's forces. At Dún Lethglaise. In Chapter II: The Táin Bó Cuailnge Begins.
- Fergus named the warrior coming to the hill at Slemain Midi as Celtchar mac Uthidir from Dún Lethglaise in the north. At Dún Lethglaise. In Chapter XIII: The Companies Advance.
- Medb takes fifty women from Finnmór, the wife of Celtchar mac Uthidir, at the capture of Dún Sobairche. At Dún Sobairche. In Chapter VIII: The Bull is Found. Further Single Combats. Cúchulainn and the Morrígan.
- The Ulstermen drink from the vat Ol nguala while the chariot-warriors practise on spearcords, and the women's love for Cúchulainn makes them look for him a wife. At Emain Macha. In Cúchulainn's Courtship of Emer, and his Training in Arms.
- Celtchar chants to Conchobor that the battle breaks out at Gáirech and Irgairech, though some say Cúscraid chanted it in the eastern camp the night before. At Gáirech and Irgairech. In Chapter XII: Ulster Rises from its Pangs.