Ibor
Conchobor's charioteer, who drives Cúchulainn on his first day in a chariot and warns him about the men he picks fights with.
Overview
Ibor is the charioteer of Conchobor's own chariot, the one chariot that survives Cúchulainn's touch. He turns the chariot round and tells the boy he can get out, and ends up driving him round Emain, along Sliab Fuait and on to the fort of the three sons of Nechta Scéne, naming every place on the way. He waits in terror while Cúchulainn sleeps at the ford, tells one of them the boy is asleep, and names Foill, Fannall and Tuachell to him one by one as they come on. On the way home he is the one sent out to gather the swans while a wild stag fills the space between the shafts.
Why should you earn enmity? Look, the boy is asleep.
Connections
Related characters
- Conchobor (his master, whose chariot Cúchulainn takes)
- Cúchulainn (the boy whose first chariot drive he is made to run)
- Foill (one of the three sons of Nechta Scéne he names to Cúchulainn)
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Appears in chapters
Appears in
- Ibor tells the warrior that the boy is asleep, but Cúchulainn wakes and calls for the fight. At River Scéne. In Chapter IV: Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds.