cousin Máel Dúin mac Fiachnai. This is recorded in the annals in the year 605 where it is said they were slain by their uterine brother. Báetán in Legend and Romance Don Carleton suggests that the character King Bagdemagus or Bademagu, who features in some continental Arthurian romances, has his origins in Báetán mac Cairill, and that the boar hunt described in the tale of Culhwch ac Olwen in the Mabinogion is an allegorical account of a military campaign fought against Báetán mac Cairill in South Wales. Notes See also Kings of Ulster References Annals of Ulster at at University College Cork Annals of Tigernach at at University College Cork Adomnán, Life of St Columba, tr. & ed. Richard Sharpe. Penguin, London, 1995. Byrne, Francis John, Irish Kings and High-Kings. Batsford, London, 1973. Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, Early Medieval Ireland: 400–1200. Longman, London, 1995. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (2005), A New History of Ireland, Volume One, Oxford: Oxford University Press Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Gearoid Mac Niocaill (1972), Ireland before the Vikings, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan External links CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork The Corpus of Electronic Texts includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach, Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress 6th-century births 581 deaths Kings of Ulster High Kings of Ireland 6th-century Irish monarchs