Deirdre

The most retold story in the literature, written down in the Middle Ages and set in the pagan Iron Age, and the corpus held every Ulsterman it turns on and not the woman it is about. Her death is not on the record: the versions differ — she throws herself from a chariot, or dies of grief, or is given to the man who killed Naoise for a year first — and the treatment consulted does not choose one. The record stops where the citation stops.

Relations

• consort of: NaoiseReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Deirdre as Naoise's lover, with whom she goes into exile in Alba. (secondary)
• desired by: Conchobar mac NessaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Conchobar record. The corpus held the king who wants her, and Fergus, who goes into exile over the way the wanting ends, and not her.Reference treatment: Deirdre is also desired by the king of Ulster, Conchobar mac Nessa. (secondary)
• prophesied by: CathbadIn-batch.Reference treatment of Cathbad's prophecy over the unborn Deirdre. (secondary)

Sources

• Deirdre is the woman Cathbad prophesies over before her birth, desired by Conchobar and loved by Naoise, for whose sake Ulster's heroes go into exile.: Reference treatments of Deirdre of the Sorrows and of The Exile of the Sons of Uisnech. (secondary)