I really recommend the Táin Bó Cúailnge to anyone looking to get into medieval literature because it's a great story, brilliant poetry (I read the Carson translation, and the way he translates the roscada sections are beautiful) and the backbone of the Ulster Cycle, but it's also just really fucking funny. It has a very slapstick yet dry sense of humor that provides just enough comic relief to make the dramatic moments of the story even more impactful. Genuinely I laugh out loud every few pages. Go read it.
You can't make this shit up
I cannot stress enough how fucking funny the Táin is.
There's like two serious dramatic duels in it and the rest of them are just Cú Chulainn going through opponents like Saitama in One Punch Man.
My favorite is the guy he doesn't even register is trying to kill him until Laeg tells him "he's chucking spears at you you idiot!!" at which point Cú Chulainn kills him by caving his face in with a thrown apple.
There's a bit where a guy refuses to duel him because he's beardless so he has his charioteer make him a grass-and-leaves beard!! This fucking gremlin!!!










