Comparative mythology corpus

Animal Chooses A Side In Battle

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Celtic Irish Heroic Romances of Ireland MAC DATHO'S BOAR / INTRODUCTION / MAC DATHO'S BOAR / FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.); lines 2466-2608 high Mac Datho brings out the hound on a leash to test which army it will choose. The hound joins Ulster, attacks the fleeing Connaughtmen, seizes Ailill and Maev's chariot poles, and is struck by Ferloga; the plain of Ailbe is explained as named from the hound. record