![]() ![]() ![]() As recompense he offered himself as a replacement. Cú Chulainn, a mythical warrior whose name means "hound of Culann", is supposed to have gained this name as a child when he slew the ferocious guard dog of Culann. The word cú was often used as an epithet for warriors as well as kings, denoting that they were worthy of the respect and loyalty of a hound. Dogs are mentioned as cú in Irish laws and literature dating from the sixth century or, in the case of the Sagas, from the old Irish period, AD 600–900. Wolfhounds were used as hunting dogs by the Gaels, who called them Cú Faoil ( Irish: Cú Faoil, composed of the elements "hound" and "wolf", i.e. The dog-type is imagined by some to be very old. Dansey, the early 19th century translator of the first complete version of Arrian's work in English, On Coursing, suggested the Irish and Scottish "greyhounds" were derived from the same ancestor, the vertragus, and had expanded with the Scoti from Ireland across the Western Isles and into what is today Scotland. Scoti is a Latin name for the Gaels (ancient Irish). In 391, there is a reference to large dogs by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Roman Consul who got seven " canes Scotici" as a gift to be used for fighting lions and bears, and who wrote "all Rome viewed (them) with wonder". History Irish Greyhound in a mountainous landscape (1804), Philip Reinagle Pre-19th century S2), is used by coursing hunters who have prized it for its ability to dispatch game caught by other, swifter sighthounds. The modern breed classified by recent genetic research into the Sighthound United Kingdom Rural Clade (Fig. The breed has, by their presence and substantial size, inspired literature, poetry and mythology, and were used as guardian dogs and for hunting wolves. The Irish Wolfhound is a breed of large sighthound, among the largest of all breeds of dog. Rough and hard on the head, body and legs beard and hair over eyes particularly wiryīlack, brindle, fawn, grey, red, pure white, or any colour seen in the Deerhound ![]()
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