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Red Branch

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plural noun

Irish Legend.
  1. the warriors of Conchobar, alienated from him after his treachery to Deirdre and Naoise.


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Cuculain, the great champion of the Red Branch cycle of tales.

From The Divine Vision and Other Poems by A.E.

Most Irish persons have heard of the Red Branch Knights.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

Thus the ancestry of the great hero of the Red Branch Knights of Ulster is both royal and divine.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans

And straightway the mighty hero of the Red Branch Knights took to his bed with a strange malady, which no Druid or doctor in all Ireland could cure.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans

Not so, ye Knights of the Red Branch; it is not meet to commit a base deed in order to escape evils that may never come to pass.

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

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