# Talk:Cú Chulainn

Sétanta doesn’t sound right.  Wasn’t he Séadanta with or without a fada. Frenchmalawi (talk) 08:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Séadanta looks like an attempt to update Sétanta to modern Irish spelling. The stories were written on Old and Middle Irish, and translations and scholarship generally follow the Old/Middle Irish spellings. --Nicknack009 (talk) 09:51, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Nicknack009, why did you mention translations? Obviously I haven’t asked about translations. Sétanta isn’t a translation. There is no fada in English language. Are you saying that there is an old written document in Irish language where ‘Sétanta’ is used? Can you identify that document? Frenchmalawi (talk) 14:13, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Yes. That's the spelling used in Lebor na hUidre and the Book of Leinster, the oldest and most important relevant manuscripts. --Nicknack009 (talk) 16:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the birth section is just written really strangely? It's very clunky and hard to parse through, and a lot of details seem to have almost no meaning or correlation-- the two colts born to the mare are never explained as birth gifts to Sétanta, and it generally reads like a stream-of-consciousness rendition of his birth. 
I wouldn't really know where to start editing it, or if other people deem it worthy of being edited. It may just be me too-- I'm willing to acknowledge I'm reading things pretty poorly, but this section just feels overly dense IMO.
The articles on Deichtine and Súaltam already have some better, albeit more brief versions of Cú Chulainn's birth story, that feel way less dense.

FenrirSkin (talk) 18:39, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria because of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Is anyone interested in addressing that concern, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 15:57, 30 November 2024 (UTC)


### Cú Chulainn
The text asserts that he was married to Emer but had many lovers - yrt there is a story called "the only jealosy of Emer" which asserts that his only other lover during his marriage was Aife. Could someone who understands this material expand the statement to accommodate what appears to me to be two different traditions? Perhaps giving source references?Thanks (Alan Jackson) ~2025-34422-00 (talk) 13:58, 19 November 2025 (UTC)