Cathbad
Irish · mortal · ulster cycle · Recorded classification
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.
Domains
- druidry and prophecy
Relations
- prophesied over: DeirdreReciprocal of the in-batch edge.Reference treatment of Cathbad's prophecy. (secondary)
- chief druid of: Conchobar mac NessaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Conchobar record.Reference treatment: Cathbad was chief druid of the court of Conchobar mac Nessa. (secondary)
Sources
- Cathbad is the chief druid of Conchobar's court, a leading figure of the Ulster Cycle, who prophesies over the unborn Deirdre.: Reference treatments of Cathbad and of Deirdre. (secondary)