The Wooing Of Emer Analysis

Emer is a figure of importance – she is Cú Chulainn’s wife, who only would marry a woman equal to him. Emer possessed all the good virtues a wife should have.
Emer’s influence can be first found in the tale of The Wooing of Emer. Cú Chulainn is the one after her, so she set up some quests form him. If he were successful, she would marry him.
While it is true that a hero needs to perform dangerous quests to raise his fame, he respects Emer proposal and he is true to his word when he promised that he would not touch any other woman unless she (Emer) died.
First of all, Emer’s father is opposed to this marriage. However, one of her requests to Cú Chulainn will ensure her escape. This is the first time she is going to defy a man’s power, in this case, her father. Emer moved the strings to get away from her family and to marry a boy whose deeds were already popular. Unusually, she is portrayed as a speaking subject who not only chatters, she actually speaks with audacity and sense - a role reserved for men (Findon 1957).
Throughout the tales Emer proves to be a good wife in modern terms, although if she is regarded with the old perspective, she would be considered a bad woman: ‘women’s words are repeatedly condemned as excessive,
However, her husband does not listen to her reasoning. In brief words, he is quite stubborn. To illustrate what I mean, I will give some examples. One of them is in The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn, when Emer tells him not to go after those birds linked by gold chains because they are otherworldly – he goes anyway and suffers its consequences. What is more, he spends some time with one of the otherworldly women. When Emer founds out, she does not remain quiet. She confronts Cú Chulainn to protect her own honor. Thus, the dispute with Fann, another woman, leaves the hero out of the scene. It is settle down by two women, not any