{"id":496,"date":"2020-06-12T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=496"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:06:54","slug":"la-mort-de-derbforgaill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/irish-mythology\/the-death-of-derbforgaill\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Derbforgaill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"496\" class=\"elementor elementor-496\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ebf073 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ebf073\" 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-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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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 Death of Derbforgaill, 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=\"Death of Derbforgaill\" 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 ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" 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She and her maid took the form of two swans and flew to Lough Cuan, bound together by a gold chain, to search for her lover.<\/p>\n\n<p>C\u00fbchulainn hunted with his nursing brother Lugaid Riab nDerg (Lugaid-aux-rays-rouge), son of the Tri Finn Emna. Lugaid saw the birds flying over them and suggested that C\u00fbchulainn try to reach them. With his slingshot, C\u00fbchulainn threw a stone, which passed between Derforgaille&#039;s ribs and entered his chest. Immediately two human forms appeared on the shore.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0&quot;I came for you and you treated me cruelly,&quot; Derforgaille said to C\u00fbchulainn. &quot;It&#039;s true,&quot; said C\u00fbchulainn. He sucked the girl&#039;s side to remove the stone and a blood clot came with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0&quot;I was coming in search of you,&quot; repeated Derforgaille. - &quot;Don&#039;t say that,&quot; said C\u00fbchulainn, &quot;I cannot join someone whose side I have sucked. &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0In that case, give me whichever one you choose. &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0I would like you to go with the noblest young man in Ireland, Lugaid-aux-Raies-Rouges. Said C\u00fbchulainn.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0As long as I can see you, so be it. So she went with Lugaid and carried a child by him.<\/p>\n\n<p>One winter day, when it had snowed heavily, the men made pillars of snow. The women went up to the pillars and said, &quot;Piscons on the pillars to see which urine will penetrate the farthest. The best of us will be the one who can go straight to the ground. &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>None could get their urine to the floor through the pillars. So they called Derbforgaille. But she wasn&#039;t enthusiastic, she thought it was absurd. However she was forced to go to the pillar, and her urine entered straight to the floor.<\/p>\n\n<p>The women said, &quot;If the men knew this, no woman would be loved in comparison with this one. So they gouged out his eyes, cut off his nose, both ears and hair, and the flesh of his thighs. No one will want her now. &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>After having undergone these tortures, Derforgaille was brought back to her house.<\/p>\n\n<p>The men were gathered on a hill outside Emain Macha. &quot;It&#039;s strange,&quot; C\u00fbchulainn said, &quot;that there is snow on the roof of Derbforgaille&#039;s house. &quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0She must be close to death! Lugaid cried.<\/p>\n\n<p>They rushed towards the house, but when she heard them coming, Derbforgaille closed the door on her. \u201cOpen! &quot;Said C\u00fbchulainn.<\/p>\n\n<p>Derforgaille sang a long lament, bidding farewell to C\u00fbchulainn and Lugaid. It is said that when they managed to get inside, her soul had already left her. Lugaid died to see her like that.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cuchulainn went to the women&#039;s house and made it collapse, killing all those inside. He killed three fifty queens that day. Then he erected the tombstones of Lugaid and Derbforgaille, and he mourned them.<\/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<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Mythology Wiki This is the story of the Death of Derbforgaill, from the red branch of Irish mythology. 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