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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>This is the story of the violent death of Aif\u00e9&#039;s only son, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/irish-mythology\/\">red branch<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">mythology<\/a> Irish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"the violent death of Aif\u00e9&#039;s only son\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn 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with Scathach Uanaind, daughter of Ardgeimm, in Letha, until he had acquired mastery of fencing with her.<\/p>\n\n<p>Aif\u00e9, daughter of Ardgeimm, came to find him; he made her pregnant, and told her that she would bear a son. Keep this ring, he said, until it goes to your son. When it suits him, let him pick me up <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/irish-mythology\/\">Ireland<\/a>; let no one divert him from his path, let him make himself known to no one and refuse single combat to no one! &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>The child, on the day of his seven years, went to look for his father.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Ulates were holding an assembly at Tracht Eisi when they saw the son coming to them across the sea on a bronze boat, golden oars in his hands. He had a pile of stones in the boat; he put a stone in his slingshot and threw it back at the birds; he took them alive, and released them into the air. He made a tour with his palate in his hands, so that the eye could not follow him; he would tune his voice to theirs and knock them down a second time, then revive them again.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0Well, said Conor, woe to the country that boy comes from! If it was the grown men from the island he comes from that came to us, they would grind us to dust, since a little boy does these tricks. That we go to meet him and that he does not approach here!<\/p>\n\n<p>- Who will meet him?<\/p>\n\n<p>- Who ? said Conor, if not Cond\u00e9r\u00e9 son of Echu?<\/p>\n\n<p>- Why Cond\u00e9r\u00e9? everyone said.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#039;s not difficult,\u201d Conor said. If it is a question of reason and eloquence, it is Cond\u00e9r\u00e9 who is appropriate there.<\/p>\n\n<p>- I will go and meet him, \u201dsaid Cond\u00e9r\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cond\u00e9r\u00e9 left and at the same time the boy approached the shore. &quot;You are far enough away, my boy,&quot; said Cond\u00e9r\u00e9, &quot;to tell us where you come from and what your race is.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#039;I don&#039;t make myself known to anyone,&#039; said the young man, &#039;and I don&#039;t avoid anyone.<\/p>\n\n<p>&quot;You won&#039;t approach,&quot; said Cond\u00e9r\u00e9, before making yourself known.<\/p>\n\n<p>- I&#039;ll go back to where I started. Said the young man.<\/p>\n\n<p>The boy turned around. Then Cond\u00e9r\u00e9 said to him: &quot;Turn to me, my son: there are great deeds, there are minor property, the pride of the warriors of the Ulates, for you. For Conor protects you ... Turn to Conor, the valiant son of Ness; to Sencha son of Cosera; to Cethern with the red blade, son of Fintan, fire that damages weapons; towards Amergin the savant; towards Cumscraid to the large troops. Happy is the one whom Conall the Victorious protects\u2026 I brag, said Cond\u00e9r\u00e9, to go to meet a hairless, hairless boy, unless the Ulates do not allow it.<\/p>\n\n<p>- You did well to come to us, said the boy; you will have the conversation you want ... Go back, said the boy, because even if you have the strength of a hundred men, you are not able to oppose me.<\/p>\n\n<p>- It&#039;s good, said Cond\u00e9r\u00e9, that another then come and talk to you! &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Cond\u00e9r\u00e9 went to the Ulates and told them his story. It will not be said, said Conall the Victorious, that the honor of the Ulates be taken away, as long as I am alive! He then walked over to the boy. Your game is pretty, boy, Conall said.<\/p>\n\n<p>- It is not against you that it will be uglier. \u201c, Said the boy.<\/p>\n\n<p>He put a stone in his slingshot. He kicked her back into the air, so the thunder and thunder she made on the way up reached Conall and threw him on his back. Before he got up, the boy had tied his hands with the strap of his shield. - &quot;Let another go against him!&quot; Said Conall. This is how the boy made fun of the army.<\/p>\n\n<p>However Cuchulainn was present at this game and he went to the boy. Emer Forgall&#039;s daughter put her arm around her neck. &quot;Don&#039;t go down there,&quot; she said. It&#039;s a son of yours who is downstairs. Do not avenge us on your only son!\u2026 It is neither loyal nor wise to stand up against your brave son\u2026 Turn to me! Listen to my voice! My opinion is good. May C\u00fbchulainn hear it! I know what name he&#039;s going to say, if it&#039;s Conla, Aif\u00e9&#039;s only son, who&#039;s the boy there, \u201dthe woman said.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then C\u00fbchulainn replied: &quot;Hold on, O woman! ... Even if it was he who is there, O woman,&quot; he said, &quot;I would kill him for the honor of the Ulates. &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>So he went down himself. &quot;It&#039;s pretty, my boy, the game you&#039;re playing,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n\n<p>- Your game is not such, said the little boy, that two of you have not come so that I make myself known to them.<\/p>\n\n<p>&quot;Should a young boy have come with me?&quot; Said C\u00fbchulainn. You&#039;re going to die if you don&#039;t make yourself known. - Well, be it! The boy said.<\/p>\n\n<p>The son pounces on him. They hit each other. The boy cuts his hair off with his sword with a good blow. Enough of the jokes! said C\u00fbchulainn. Let&#039;s finally fight.<\/p>\n\n<p>- I&#039;m not reaching for your belt. Said the son.<\/p>\n\n<p>He climbed on two stones and put Cuchulainn between two stone pillars three times, and the son did not move either of his feet until they had entered the stones up to his ankles. The traces of his feet are still there. This is why we say the Shore of the Trace among the Ulates. They entered the sea to drown each other, and the son made him dive twice. C\u00fbchulainn went towards him out of the water and took him in traitor with the sack javelin (gae bolga - lightning javelin). Scathach had taught the handling of this weapon only to C\u00fbchulainn. He throws it against the son, into the water, so that the entrails fall on his feet.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0So, he said, this is what Scathach did not teach me! Woe to you who hurt me! said the son.<\/p>\n\n<p>- It&#039;s true. Said C\u00fbchulainn.<\/p>\n\n<p>He takes his son in his arms, removes him from there and carries him until he arrives in front of the Ulates.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0Here is my son before you, O Ulates, he said.<\/p>\n\n<p>- Alas! replied the Ulates.<\/p>\n\n<p>- It is true, said the son. If I had been among you in five years, I would have conquered the men of the earth in your presence on either side, and you would have had the empire as far as Rome. Since this is so, show me the great men who are here, let me bid them farewell! &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>So he put his arms around the necks of each of them one after the other; he said goodbye to his father and died immediately.<\/p>\n\n<p>The funeral lamentation, the grave and the stone were made, and for three days no calves were left to the cows in Ulster as a result of this.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1d4a36f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1d4a36f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-843c641\" data-id=\"843c641\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-687d1d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"687d1d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mythologie-Serere\"><\/span>Serious Mythology<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Mythology Wiki This is the story of the Violent Death of Aif\u00e9&#039;s only son, from the Red Branch of Mythology... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":439,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24527,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions\/24527"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}