Tain: Only one thing stands between the army of Maeve the Intoxicator
and its goal of the great bull of Ulster: a small young warrior named
Setanta. Maeve, with all of her cunning, all of her powers, sees no
problem in dispatching the gadfly known to Ulster as Cu Chulainn..
But
Setanta is no normal defender. His father is a god, who has given him a
monstrous power and a magical spear, and his skills were learned on a
magical isle of women warriors. Alone against all odds and all comers,
he fights as strange a war as was ever undertaken – in the narrows of
every stream the army must cross.
TAIN is a retelling of the
Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology, known also as the “Táin Bó Cuailnge,"
the tales of Cu Chulainn, defender of Ulster against all the forces of
Eire.