This is one of his many stories as a protagonist that my grandmother told me as a child. In her version of this story, Cu Chulain drove a hurly ball down the beasts throat, and arrived at his uncle’s wearing it as a cloak. There’s not mention of puppies, but that Cu Chulain guarded his uncle’s property until the natural death of his uncle. I love oral history. Edit: I just remembered the puppies! The grew to be huge and to view Cu Chulain as their brother. Awesome. Thanks you for helping me remember more of my grandmother!
There are multiple similarities in the myths surrounding Cuhullain, Heracles, Rostem, and Lay of Hildebrand, which is really interesting when one considers that those myths all come from languages that stem from the same Indo-European language family. Perhaps this is a story older than time can tell.
I can't speak for the mythology of other cultures but Irish mythology is well known for having been "filtered" through the perceptions of it's transcribers, early Christian monks. As they were often versed in Biblical and Classical texts, these monks tended to make allusions to heroes from other mythologies as they copied these stories from the oral traditions of the Seanací (Shan-ach-ee, storytellers) and Bards (priestly orators). Whether the original stories actually had these elements or not is a matter for debate but there must have been something in them to make the link so strong.
@@SupernovaOneFourOne There's a story in where he had a son with the daughter of Scathach (his teacher). Some years later the son, grown-up, confronts Cúchulainn and they engage in a duel. If memory serves me, Cúchulainn threw Gae Bolga (his special spear) at his son and the wound was fatal. Right as he was dying did Cúchulainn learn that he was his father. That's what I recall learning at some point anyways
It's not that this telling or the one you heard are wrong it's that as storys and legend grow in age the may chang especially those that were passed orally
both have very different approaches, OSP is less detailed and tell more of his legends, EM goes deeper into his origin and ending. OSP also goes deeper into the historical aspects and contexts of those tales, while EM usually only recounts the legends.
My family is almost entirely descended from Gaelic (Welsh, Scottish, Irish) ancestors, but it's only been recently (thanks a lot to OSP and EC) that I've been learning about Gaelic mythology.
When I was growing up the version of the story I was told made him seem less smug (no 150 vs 1 hurling for instance :P ) and rather than yeeting the hound into the sky he pucked the sliotar so hard at it's mouth it choked to death on it (yikes). Still! A nice telling of the legend!
Where do you guys get your info on this? That's a serious question- I've genuinely never heard this version of how he killed the hound. I'm Irish we learned this stuff in school, heard at camp fires, read about in college, saw it adapted on tv and theatre. And I never saw this. Generally it's agreed that story goes that he struck the ball into the hound and down it's throat killing it. Also and regarding both Cuchulainn videos - you didn't mention the warp spasm - he's basically the Hulk!
now that I'm thinking about it: Can anyone contact Shonen about a pilot I am now working on. it starts in a typical high school and the protagonist is named Gil...
Honestly, Cuchulain is the second most anime protagonist mythological character I've ever witnessed, only behind Sun Wukong. The Riastrad transformation is really like incredibly anime and most of the techniques he learns from Scathath have names like anime attacks. It's honestly shocking there hasn't been a straight anime adaptation of the Ulster Cycle.
The pronunciation is closer to [coo HULL-in], with the stress and a little extra phlegm on the "hull". This is due to the use of lenition in gaeilge (irish) that softens some consonants under certain circumstances.
Pretty good! Have you guys heard about the stories of his warp spasms? Some myths claim he had some weird like hulk out thing were his body grew disproportionately and had a bulging eye
And the name Cú Chulainn was sung out loud that night. In a tale of rage and ruin and of might, and the name Cú Chulainn so furious and wild. To remain in myth and memory A legend of the isle
You know, I've always wondered if the actual doggo in this story might be something like or related to a black Caucasian Shepherd Dog aka. a Russian Bear Dog. Now THAT'S a dog to ride into battle.
Wow I've never heard hear this version! In the Irish account he whacks the ball with his stick, and it lodges straight in the hounds throat and killed it. Didn't know about the throwing him in the air bit. XD
I got to play the role of Chu’Chulainn in a play on by an Irish theatre company. The biggest argument among the cast and crew, all from different parts of Ireland, was the correct pronunciation of his name with no two people having a pronunciation in common. 😂
No, last week you took two parts of Ulster Cycle, set 5-10 years apart. Also, you left out the bit of him being conceived three times. And been born at Newgrange. And in battle, due to his demigod status, would assume the Riastrad (warp spasm) and that his spear, Gáe Bulg, was forged from a sea monster's spin and would rip anyone apart.
Wonder which Extra Credits series should cover the Fate franchise given it’s most notable entries are video games but its major characters the Servants are from mythology and history...
Great content, though a few moments for a Lies episode; 1/ The 'castle' @~1:01 & 1:47 is the modern era monastic ruin in my home town Cashel (~ meaning castle) that was contemporaneously not stone made. The wall was famously built with stone during the Famine work projects era. 2/ Cashel is not in Ulster, where Setanta is heroically heroic. Cashel is co. Tipperary, Munster. Source: I'm from there, the opposite side of that hill (locally erroneously called gallow's hill and Cromwell's hill ) @1:01.
I know it's mythology, but the anachronism on that castle is really bothering me. This is an Iron Age story, set somewhere around 0 AD. Part of the appeal of these myths, as an irish person, is how many elements do genuinely link to reality - hurley is a game that's still played today in ireland, a lot of landscape features mentioned are easily identifiable to the point where we can say where certain stories definitely happened, and so on. Adding in extra things that don't connect so well feels like it accomplishes the opposite of the intent to root the stories in reality.
Excite! Thanks for doing Celtic/Irish myths, it's so hard to find anything about them and a lot of sources on Celtic myths avoid the Irish side of it all and focus more on the English parts of Celtic mythology. Easily one of my favorite channels on TH-cam
You might be looking in the wrong places: English mythology is Germanic, not Celtic, and has more in common with Norse mythology. The Normans stole some stuff from the Welsh (which gave us King Arthur, &c.), but that's a whole other story. Jeffrey Gantz's "Early Irish Myths and Sagas" is good, and Thomas Kinsella's translation of "Táin Bó Cuailnge" is excellent. I had a dig around, and found "Celtic Myths and Legends" by Peter Berresford Ellis being recommended.
Slightly different version to what we were learned in school. We learned that he hit a sliotar with his hurley into the dogs mouth and killed the Irish Wolf hound
This is one of his many stories as a protagonist that my grandmother told me as a child. In her version of this story, Cu Chulain drove a hurly ball down the beasts throat, and arrived at his uncle’s wearing it as a cloak. There’s not mention of puppies, but that Cu Chulain guarded his uncle’s property until the natural death of his uncle. I love oral history.
Edit: I just remembered the puppies! The grew to be huge and to view Cu Chulain as their brother. Awesome. Thanks you for helping me remember more of my grandmother!
There are multiple similarities in the myths surrounding Cuhullain, Heracles, Rostem, and Lay of Hildebrand, which is really interesting when one considers that those myths all come from languages that stem from the same Indo-European language family.
Perhaps this is a story older than time can tell.
This lecture might interest you
th-cam.com/video/wNvaJdVdP-8/w-d-xo.html
or maybe people love unbeatable heroes and their stories only get more and more exaggerated as it gets passed down through oral tradition.
There is a quote from a certain abridged series that should go here
I can't speak for the mythology of other cultures but Irish mythology is well known for having been "filtered" through the perceptions of it's transcribers, early Christian monks. As they were often versed in Biblical and Classical texts, these monks tended to make allusions to heroes from other mythologies as they copied these stories from the oral traditions of the Seanací (Shan-ach-ee, storytellers) and Bards (priestly orators). Whether the original stories actually had these elements or not is a matter for debate but there must have been something in them to make the link so strong.
And Gilgamesh
Er, “virtuous,” no question, but “selfless?” Bit a of stretch.
Swiping left a goddess to stay on his post is selfless enough for me
@@paweandonisgawralidisdobrz2522 beating a god in combat then making her have his kid isnt too selfless (oh and he died at 17 btw)
@@finnpom7795 and don't forget this bastard killed his own son
@@finnpom7795 when did he do that?
@@SupernovaOneFourOne There's a story in where he had a son with the daughter of Scathach (his teacher). Some years later the son, grown-up, confronts Cúchulainn and they engage in a duel. If memory serves me, Cúchulainn threw Gae Bolga (his special spear) at his son and the wound was fatal. Right as he was dying did Cúchulainn learn that he was his father.
That's what I recall learning at some point anyways
Gilgamesh ✅
Heracles ✅
Medusa ✅
Cu Chulainn ✅
Medea
Sasaki koujiro
Hassan-e Sabbāh
King Arthur
I wonder who will be next
Hassan-e Sabbah would be kind amazing, its one of those tales that walk the line between historical and mythological.
@@danilooliveira6580 So what would it be? Extra Mythology or Extra History?
@@danilooliveira6580 You mean the guy who created a sect of assasins which also is where the word assassin came from?
And don't forget:
Alexander the Great
Lancelot
Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
Gilles De Rais
@@YouW00t Extra Encore
Im Irish and although you have a few minor mistakes in the tale that ive been told, im genuinely impressed by the accuracy. Keep up the good work :p
It's not that this telling or the one you heard are wrong it's that as storys and legend grow in age the may chang especially those that were passed orally
I'm Irish myself and my biggest fear was pronunciation
Love how they’ve got what looks like Cashel in the background even though Cú Chulainn was an Ulsterman and this from the ULSTER cycle..... :/
Wtf this man's best friend, the dog, gets murdered because the king forgot his nephew. She deserved better.
The question remains. Is the "dog" a dog or a bitch?
i watched overly sarcastic video of this legend. I cant chose which one i like better
Gabriel Sievert os
OS
OSP
There is no better, there is only more for us.
both have very different approaches, OSP is less detailed and tell more of his legends, EM goes deeper into his origin and ending. OSP also goes deeper into the historical aspects and contexts of those tales, while EM usually only recounts the legends.
He's still fighting the Holy Grail War though.
and recently he aid many Rank E Luck masters to regain the humanity foundation
Cú Chulainn is basically the Irish Heracles....
And as an Irishman myself, I am astounded that you pronounced all the names right.
Wrestling a giant hound? He really is irish Hercules
Cú Chulainn has more in common with Achilles, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh
i i understood that reference
But can he defeat actually Satan?
@@Vazk0r Archer: Im not the devil RIN
@@francisstaines228 agreed he more irish Achilles than Hercules
These stories were told to me as a littleon so it is just grand to hear this channel that I enjoy tell it
Can't wait for the part where he fights in the holy grail war
My family is almost entirely descended from Gaelic (Welsh, Scottish, Irish) ancestors, but it's only been recently (thanks a lot to OSP and EC) that I've been learning about Gaelic mythology.
Same but with South English instead of Irish
@@sevatarlives185 Thanks. Case in point; I'm woefully disconnected from my family history before the Highland clearances
Look up the "Celtic Myth Podshow" -- that place is a TREASURE TROVE
Gaelic mythology is sadly under represented in modern culture.
Might just be semantics, but the Welsh aren't Gael's like the Irish and the Scots. They're Brythonic Celts.
I was told this story when I was much younger and I’m so happy you guys covered this, thanks extra mythology team!
"He's pretty much Irish Hercules, Rin!"
Timestamps
But is he SATAN?
Lancer's DEAD!
youre not human!
Finally i found the fate comment
@@checkersenjoyer KONO HITODENASHI!
KONO HITODENASHI! (2)
When I was growing up the version of the story I was told made him seem less smug (no 150 vs 1 hurling for instance :P ) and rather than yeeting the hound into the sky he pucked the sliotar so hard at it's mouth it choked to death on it (yikes). Still! A nice telling of the legend!
Where do you guys get your info on this? That's a serious question- I've genuinely never heard this version of how he killed the hound. I'm Irish we learned this stuff in school, heard at camp fires, read about in college, saw it adapted on tv and theatre. And I never saw this. Generally it's agreed that story goes that he struck the ball into the hound and down it's throat killing it. Also and regarding both Cuchulainn videos - you didn't mention the warp spasm - he's basically the Hulk!
Rin watch out something tells me this guy's trouble and never wins fights.
So Cuchulain is basically just the Irish equivalent of a Shonen anime protagonist.
Oh you have no idea, just wait till he goes full Warp Spasm.
you act like anime protagonists are anything new!? Gilgamesh might as well have had Yugi-oh hair. And his buddy, Enkidu...clearly a New York accent.
now that I'm thinking about it:
Can anyone contact Shonen about a pilot I am now working on.
it starts in a typical high school and the protagonist is named Gil...
Hindu mythology goes full DBZ at several points.
Honestly, Cuchulain is the second most anime protagonist mythological character I've ever witnessed, only behind Sun Wukong. The Riastrad transformation is really like incredibly anime and most of the techniques he learns from Scathath have names like anime attacks. It's honestly shocking there hasn't been a straight anime adaptation of the Ulster Cycle.
The pronunciation is closer to [coo HULL-in], with the stress and a little extra phlegm on the "hull". This is due to the use of lenition in gaeilge (irish) that softens some consonants under certain circumstances.
Each part of Ireland has different dialects so the pronunciation varies
Great video guys, this is one of my favourite ones
Three mins after realease? Did you fast-forward in time or what?😂
emanuele reali No I think I finished it a minute ago, how does that work
Edit: oh god oh fuck I skipped like 3 minutes of it
‘HE’S PRETTY MUCH IRISH HERCULES, RIN!’
Vid "Where did he come from?"
Me "Where did he go?"
Vid "Also a great question."
I love it when extra mythology uploads on my day off
These are some of my fav videos are mythology ones. Keep up the great work guys!
2:16 THERES ONLY PAWNS AND ONE OF THEM IS TOUCHING THEIR END OF THE BOARD
Pretty good! Have you guys heard about the stories of his warp spasms? Some myths claim he had some weird like hulk out thing were his body grew disproportionately and had a bulging eye
Lancer ga shinda!
KONO HITODENASHI!
Finally, our favorite doggo enter the spotlight !
This series is excellent. Keep up the good work!
And the name Cú Chulainn
was sung out loud that night. In a tale of rage and ruin and of might, and the name Cú Chulainn
so furious and wild. To remain in myth and memory A legend of the isle
1:00 The Rock of Cashel as the seat of the Ulster king? Not sure how I feel about that.
I remember hearing of this from Disney's gargoyles
I just re-watched "Hound of Ulster".
No wonder cuchulain so pissed when emiya mocked the hound. I still wanted cu dinosaur tho, those berserker is so cool.
I was always taught that he hit the ball with his hurley right through the Irish wolf hound's head.
Hey, no reference to his hawt, skin tight purple teacher???
You know, I've always wondered if the actual doggo in this story might be something like or related to a black Caucasian Shepherd Dog aka. a Russian Bear Dog. Now THAT'S a dog to ride into battle.
It was mostly likely to be an irish wolfhound or even a wolf dog.
This is so cool! It's like a prequel! Thanks, guys!
i really like the aesthetic of all extra credits videos! keep up the great work!
1:40 no words for how disappointed I am that ye didn't even attempt to say sliotar
That shéimhiú in Chulainn though, and that emphasis when trying to make Cú Chulainn a single word ... Would've been awesome to see them try XD
I remember him dying while trying to save a twintail tsundere
You guys do great work and explain it so good that even a 1 years old baby would interested and probably watch it for an 1 hour
Wow I've never heard hear this version! In the Irish account he whacks the ball with his stick, and it lodges straight in the hounds throat and killed it. Didn't know about the throwing him in the air bit. XD
RANSA GA SHINDA !!!
KONO HITO DE NASHI !!!
OMAE WO SHINDIRU
Now I know why they always call him a dog in Carnival Phamtasm
I love you videos you have helped me learn so much and I always can’t wait till you upload another video
I got to play the role of Chu’Chulainn in a play on by an Irish theatre company. The biggest argument among the cast and crew, all from different parts of Ireland, was the correct pronunciation of his name with no two people having a pronunciation in common. 😂
Absolute legend...undone by being jettisoned into a ceiling light...or was it by a Pegasus?
What Zoe really said was "And where did he go? Where did he come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?"
nice it was cool to hear this after last weeks tale both were amazing stories really
May I suggest doing some myths on the jackalope of Wyoming in the future.
Not sure how I missed the last cu vid... I see cu, I click...
No, last week you took two parts of Ulster Cycle, set 5-10 years apart.
Also, you left out the bit of him being conceived three times.
And been born at Newgrange. And in battle, due to his demigod status, would assume the Riastrad (warp spasm) and that his spear, Gáe Bulg, was forged from a sea monster's spin and would rip anyone apart.
Can you make more videos about Celtic mythology?
Can't wait for the part whit Scathach.
Always love Extra Mythology vids.
I love the animation, awesomeeee
YAY more Gaelic mythology
Wonder which Extra Credits series should cover the Fate franchise given it’s most notable entries are video games but its major characters the Servants are from mythology and history...
Lancer is so cool!
u guys should do a series about the mahabharat. and it can teach ppl a lot of lessons if they bother to look into it
Great content, though a few moments for a Lies episode; 1/ The 'castle' @~1:01 & 1:47 is the modern era monastic ruin in my home town Cashel (~ meaning castle) that was contemporaneously not stone made. The wall was famously built with stone during the Famine work projects era.
2/ Cashel is not in Ulster, where Setanta is heroically heroic. Cashel is co. Tipperary, Munster.
Source: I'm from there, the opposite side of that hill (locally erroneously called gallow's hill and Cromwell's hill ) @1:01.
Wow,
Just so you know,
This myth is still alive in Ireland ,in fact I learned myself and I am ten.
(I am Irish)🇮🇪
Great vid
This is inaccurate. Everybody knows lansa has red eyes and blue tights.
and dies every time
You are not a human!
Can't forget the Ponytail.
Lancer died!
And a hawt teacher
The animations in this are a ton of fun. Excellent video as always guys. Stay well out there, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
I like that they didn’t even attempt to say the word sliothar
Lancer is dead!
You forgot the part where he fought King Arthur and then killed a fake priest
Damn, the Morrigan! Morrigan is my legal name, and hearing about this is super rad to me!
A nice short rundown. Take a listen to Ronnie Drew tell the story of Cúchulainn as well.
I know it's mythology, but the anachronism on that castle is really bothering me. This is an Iron Age story, set somewhere around 0 AD. Part of the appeal of these myths, as an irish person, is how many elements do genuinely link to reality - hurley is a game that's still played today in ireland, a lot of landscape features mentioned are easily identifiable to the point where we can say where certain stories definitely happened, and so on. Adding in extra things that don't connect so well feels like it accomplishes the opposite of the intent to root the stories in reality.
Do you like Irish Myths/Legands? I know the irish is tough to pronounce but this is so cool :D love your stuff!
“Selfless”...umm...suuuuuuuuuuuure.
That’s one way to make an entrance
5:35 - It was at that moment that the King knew... He f*cked up.
I love the way Setanta sounds like Sonic the Hedgehog
Well that escalated quickly
On this episode of "Lets see how much more I'll like OSPs version of this"
"You killed my dog! You shall become my new dog!"
Excite! Thanks for doing Celtic/Irish myths, it's so hard to find anything about them and a lot of sources on Celtic myths avoid the Irish side of it all and focus more on the English parts of Celtic mythology.
Easily one of my favorite channels on TH-cam
You might be looking in the wrong places: English mythology is Germanic, not Celtic, and has more in common with Norse mythology. The Normans stole some stuff from the Welsh (which gave us King Arthur, &c.), but that's a whole other story.
Jeffrey Gantz's "Early Irish Myths and Sagas" is good, and Thomas Kinsella's translation of "Táin Bó Cuailnge" is excellent. I had a dig around, and found "Celtic Myths and Legends" by Peter Berresford Ellis being recommended.
Looks like Cúchulainn and Samson would have made great pals...
That poor dog... SHE WAS JUST DOING HER JOB!!!
5:31 Metal Gear Revengance,Wolf Mix
"I'm so sorry that i killed your dog, so now i will be your dog"
- CuChulainn, probably
The Hound of Rowan is a great book series
Please do an episode on the Alamo
where did he come from, where did he go, where did you come from Cuchulain bro!
👌 Good video
Slightly different version to what we were learned in school. We learned that he hit a sliotar with his hurley into the dogs mouth and killed the Irish Wolf hound
When I was told this story Cú Culainn hit the sliotar directly into the hounds mouth and killed it instantly
Cuchulain is one of my all time favourite mythological characters
Now I will be waiting for prose and poetic edda
I think children is a mix of Heracles and achilles Heracles for his greatness and Achilles for his fated death and being the greatest warrior
He didn't even have to go over 85 rage to kill a Fenrir... nice. Probably building Warrior's Boots and Berserkers Shield.
My to go channel to learn about myths and history of Za WARUDO
I love the mythology videos
You gotta find a way to make that intro more snappy
the way he says cú chulainn… ksksksks
THE WAY HE SAYS IRELAND…
Raise my ire for sure. As for Cúchulainn that's when "Is fearr Gaeilge briste" is pushed to the limits! 😂