Cathbad

Irish · mortal · ulster cycle · mortal

The corpus held an entire Ulster court — king, queen, champions, charioteer's son, hostages and exiles — and no druid, in a literature where the druid is the person who tells everyone what is going to happen and is always right. He is also, in most versions, Conchobar's father and Cú Chulainn's teacher; the treatment consulted gives neither, so neither is on the record, and both are census rows.