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Updated: June 7, 2025
'Woe unto him that doeth not the counsel of a good wife, said Diarmid to himself, 'for Grania bade me take my best hound and my red javelin. Then he aimed carefully at the boar's head, and smote him in the middle of his forehead; but he did not so much as cut one of his bristles, far less pierce his skin.
"I could send over a man or two, but my grieve or I myself would require to accompany them for protection against seizure." "No need," said his daughter, hastily. "Diarmid would not wish to draw you into his sons' quarrels and, I think, Stair's band ran a big cargo last night from the Burnfoot Bay. There were twenty preventive men there, they say.
'Then you will not listen to word of marriage from me? asked Grania. 'I will not, answered Ossian, 'for I must not lay my hand on what Fionn has looked on. Then Grania turned her face to Diarmid Dowd and what she said was, 'Will you receive courtship from me, O Son of Dowd, since Ossian will not receive it?
'Show us where he is, that we may take his head to Fionn. 'The body and life of Diarmid are under my protection, and I will not betray him. 'Then we will take your head, as Fionn is your enemy, said they. 'Take it if you can, answered Diarmid, and he drew his sword and struck at the head of the man next him, and it rolled away from the body.
'That is so, answered the King, 'and I will give you my two sons, with a thousand men to each of them. Joyful was Fionn to hear this, and he departed with his company, and nothing was known of them till they reached the Boyne, where Fionn challenged Diarmid and Angus to battle. 'What shall I do touching this, O Oscar? asked Diarmid. 'We will give them battle and slay them all, answered Oscar.
Howbeit, both Diarmid and Angus felt that this was no place for Grania, and Angus said he would take her with him. 'Take her, answered Diarmid; 'if I be alive this evening I will follow you.
For the second time Fionn set out to fetch the water, but returning he thought of Grania, and let it run upon the ground. Diarmid saw and sighed piteously. 'I swear by my sword, cried Oscar, 'that if this time you bring not that water either you or I, O Fionn, shall leave our body here.
And Ossian and Dearing heard him, and said to each other, 'We must send Diarmid a warning, lest he should be taken.
'Then leave them, cried Grania, 'one on each side of the stream, and we will travel on foot. So they went on till they reached Galway, and there Diarmid cut down a grove, and made a palisade with seven doors of wattles, and gathered together the tops of the birch trees and soft rushes for a bed for Grania.
After Diarmid and Oscar had departed, Fionn ordered a ship to be made ready, and as soon as it was done he marched on board with a thousand of his warriors and set sail for the north of Scotland. When he arrived at the harbour nearest the King's palace, he moored his ship and took the path to the palace, where the King received him kindly, and gave him food and drink.
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