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When Branduv heard it he nearly went mad with love and longing and jealousy, and with rage also, because of the treasure he had given her and might not get back. He called Mongan over to him, and spoke to him very threateningly and ragingly. "I am not one who takes a thing without giving a thing," said he. "Nobody could say you were," agreed Mongan.
At the feast Duv Laca sat beside the King of Leinster, but Mongan sat opposite him with Ivell, and Mongan put more and more magic into the hag, so that her cheeks shone and her eyes gleamed, and she was utterly bewitching to the eye; and when Branduv looked at her she seemed to grow more and more lovely and more and more desirable, and at last there was not a bone in his body as big as an inch that was not filled with love and longing for the girl.
The King of Leinster at that time was Branduv, the son of Echach. He welcomed Mongan and treated him well, and that night Mongan slept in his palace. When he awoke in the morning he looked out of a lofty window, and he saw on the sunny lawn before the palace a herd of cows.
"I love you madly and dearly, and with all my faculties and members." "That is the way! love you," said Duv Laca. "We shall have a notable year of courtship and joy. And let us go now," she continued, "for I am impatient to be with you." "Alas!" said Branduv, as he followed her. "Alas, alas!" said the King of Leinster.
"If I had come here with horses and treasure you would be in your right to take these from me, but you have no right to ask for what you are now asking." "I do ask for it," said Branduv menacingly, "and you must not refuse a lord." "Very well," said Mongan reluctantly, and as if in great fear; "if you will make the exchange I will make it, although it breaks my heart."
Branduv asked him. "I am," said Mongan. "Everybody is," said the King of Leinster. "I never saw anything like them," said Mongan. "Nobody has," said the King of Leinster. "I never saw anything I would rather have than these cows," said Mongan.
"All that I have," cried Branduv, "and all that every-body has." "And you must pass your word and pledge your word that you will do what I ask." "I pass it and pledge it," cried the joyful king. "Then," said Duv Laca, "this is what I bind on you." "Light the yolk!" he cried. "Until one year is up and out you are not to pass the night in any house that I am in." "By my head and hand!"
"It is in Ulster," said Branduv. Mongan did not want to say anything more then, but the King of Leinster was so intent and everybody else was listening and Duv Laca was nudging his arm, so he said: "What is it that you do want?" "I want Duv Laca." "I want her too," said Mongan.
Branduv came to the door himself to welcome them, and the minute he looked on Ivell of the Shining Cheeks it was plain that he liked looking at her. It was now drawing towards evening, and a feast was prepared for the guests with a banquet to follow it.
Branduv stammered. "And if you come into a house where I am during the time and term of that year, you are not to sit down in the chair that I am sitting in." "Heavy is my doom!" he groaned. "But," said Duv Laca, "if I am sitting in a chair or a seat you are to sit in a chair that is over against me and opposite to me and at a distance from me."
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