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The Intoxication of the Ulaid: In which the warriors of Ulster feast; get drunk; boast; argue; fight - and that's jsut what happens before they decide to all go over to Cu Chulaind's place for more feasting and get lost on the way. The boozing isn't even the Intoxication of the title - that happens later, too. Unfortunately both extant versions of this story are incomplete and somewhat inconsistent with each other. Fortunately one picks up roughly where the other leaves off but one never finds out how the Ulstermen get out of the very specific pickle they are trapped in at the end of the Leinster version. Some suggest this is a late parody of the Ulster Cycle of pagan Irish stories because of its comedic nature but I find many of the extant Celtic myths and legends comicly preposterous, anyway.