Woe came to this kingdom when its king ordered the treacherous killing of the sons of Uisneach so he could reclaim the most beautiful woman in the world, Deirdre.
A queen of this realm, whose epithet referred to her "furzy hair," had an affair with one of her husband's poets, who was condemned to death, asked to be drowned, and then repeatedly recited a poem that caused water to drain away every time he was brought to a lake to carry out the sentence. In one tale, the men of this kingdom saw the Sun darken and the Moon turn the color of blood at the moment of the Crucifixion; upon hearing the cause, this realm's king went into a rage, and died a Christian when he was baptized by the gush of blood from his seven-year-old head wound. The name of this kingdom's capital stemmed from an incident in which all but one man of this kingdom was cursed when a woman pregnant with twins was forced to (*) race against the king's horses. Woe came to this kingdom when its king ordered the treacherous killing of the sons of Uisneach so he could reclaim the most beautiful woman in the world, Deirdre. For 10 points, Conchobar was the ruler of what Irish kingdom whose hero Cuchulainn features prominently in its namesake mythic cycle?
A queen of this realm, whose epithet referred to her "furzy hair," had an affair with one of her husband's poets, who was condemned to death, asked to be drowned, and then repeatedly recited a poem that caused water to drain away every time he was brought to a lake to carry out the sentence.
Ulster