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The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu. Author: Vernam Hull. File Description. Electronic edition compiled and proofread by Beatrix Färber. Funded by University College, Cork. 1. First draft. Extent of text: 5410 words. Publication. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork.
The famous Irish legend of Deirdriu or Deirdre and the Sons of Uisliu or Uisnech tells the story of the beautiful Deirdre, desired by all men, particularly Conchobar King of Ulster and who fell in love with Naoise or Noisiu, one of the warrior sons of Uisnech.
‘Longes mac nUislenn’ (‘The exile of the sons of Uisliu’) is the oldest extant version of the tale that has become known as the story of Deirdre. In brief, it tells how the king of Ulster, Conchobar (qv) son of Ness, and his followers are feasting at the house of Feidlimid son of Dall while being served by Feidlimid's unnamed pregnant wife.
The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu Author: Vernam Hull. Table of Contents Background details and bibliographic information Preamble The CELT edition as a single file
The Sorrow of Derdriu is also known as The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu. The story was first recorded in the Book of Leinster in c. AD 1 160 and forms part of the famous Ulster Cycle. It is a fore tale to the Táin Bó Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley). The early medieval Irish myths represent an oral storytelling tradition many centuries old.
The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu or Uisneach. This is the third of ‘The Three Sorrows of Storytelling’, and has a great variety of English titles and story-lines. It is a classic and Jeffrey Gantz (1981) describes it as ‘the most stunning tale ever written in Irish’.
ABSTRACT. The Longes Mac n-Uislenn or Loinges Mac n-Uislenn And-so ‘Exile of the Sons of Uisliu’ forms an early part of the ‘Ulster Cycle’, a prelude to the better-known battle sagas of Conchobar and Cú Chulainn in the Tain bó Cuailnge ‘Cooley’s Cattle Raid’.
