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The man eyed him silently for a moment, and then he said: 'I dreamed that you were girt with a sword and became king of Lochlann. But Manus answered: 'I have no sword and my bow is broken. 'I will give you a new sword if you will make me a promise, said the man once more. 'To be sure I will make it, if ever I am king, answered Manus. 'But speak, and tell me what promise I am to make.
Conall told the miller that his own children and the children of his king had fallen out, and that his children had killed the king's son, and there was nothing that would please the king but that he should get the brown horse of the king of Lochlann. "If you will do me a kindness, and will put me in a way to get him, for certain I will pay ye for it."
A year passed by, and found them still in that wild land, hunting the reindeer, and digging pits for the mountain sheep to fall into. For a time Manus and his companions lived merrily, but at length Manus grew weary of the strange country, and they all took ship for the land of Lochlann.
But the cub rolled itself up in the cloth; so Manus picked them both up, and carried them with him to Old Bergen. Another year went by, and then he took the lion cub and set forth to the land of Lochlann. And the wife of Iarlaid came to meet him, and a brown dog, small but full of courage, came with her.
So Manus slept, and by-and-by a voice sounded in his ears, saying: 'Arise! And he saw a ship in the water beneath him, and in the ship sat the lion cup in the shape of the pilot. Then they sailed away through the fog, and none saw them; and they reached the land of Lochlann, and the lion cub with the chain round his neck sprang from the ship and Manus followed after.
Then spake Iarlaid, the younger, and he said: 'Let one half be yours, and the other give to me; then you will have fewer people to rule over. 'Yes, I will do that, answered Oireal. After this, one half of the men of the land of Lochlann did homage to Oireal, and the other half to Iarlaid.
He did not listen to the songs of poets or the curious sayings of magicians, for all of these were in his wife, and something that was beyond these was in her also. "She is this world and the next one; she is completion," said Fionn. It happened that the men of Lochlann came on an expedition against Ireland.
And there's the hardest case in which I ever was; and it seems to me that tearing by the cats were harder than hanging to-morrow by the king of Lochlann." "Och! Conall," said the king, "you are full of words. You have freed the soul of your son with your tale; and if you tell me a harder case than that you will get your second youngest son, and then you will have two sons."
And then, in Lochlann, at the battle of Cnocha your father and I met at last, foot to foot, eye to eye, and there, Fionn!" "And there, Goll?" "And there I killed your father." Fionn sat rigid and unmoving, his face stony and terrible as the face of a monument carved on the side of a cliff. "Tell all your tale," said he. "At that battle I beat the Lochlannachs.
If there were none but men among you, even were you the Lochlann I took you for and small wonder that I did I had not fled. By no means." "Why," said Dalfin, with a great laugh, "it must be Gerda whom he fears! Nay, father, the lady is all kindness, and you need fear her not at all." "I may not look on the face of a lady," said the father solemnly.
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