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Emer

This article is about the wife of the Irish hero Cú Chulainn. For Emer, the early Jaredite king, see List of Book of Mormon people § E.

Emer rebuking Cú Chulainn. (1905 illustration by H. R. Millar.)

Emer (Old Irish: [ˈẽβ̃ʲər]), in modern Irish Eimhear or Éimhear (with variations including Eimer, Eimear and Éimear)[1][2] and in Scottish Gaelic Eimhir, is the name of the daughter of Forgall Monach and the wife of the hero Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.[3][4]

  1. ^ Medially and finally m is a bilabial fricative in Old Irish (represented in Modern Irish by mh): E.G. Quinn, Old-Irish Workbook, Royal Irish Academy, 1975, p. 5.
  2. ^ "Ainmneacha Gaelacha". Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
  3. ^ Larsen, Erik (2003). "Cú Chulainn: God, Man, or Animal?". Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 23: 172–183. ISSN 1545-0155. JSTOR 25660733.
  4. ^ Findon, J; Bourke, A (1999). "A Woman's Words: Emer & Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle". University of Toronto Quarterly.

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