Excess

Stories with the Excess theme:

• The Intoxication of the Ulstermen Aug 13, 2025

  

  Among the many tales of the Red Branch Knights of Ulster, few are as amusing as the story of their great intoxication. It is a tale that shows how even the mightiest heroes can be brought low by too much hospitality and too little wisdom, and how friendship can survive even the most embarrassing of circumstances.

  The Generous Host

  There lived in Ulster a wealthy chieftain named Cú Ruí mac Dáire, who was famous throughout the land for two things: his supernatural wisdom and his extraordinarily generous hospitality. His great hall was built on a hill overlooking the sea, and it was said that no guest had ever left his table hungry or his hearth cold.