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Fear fell llke night around the Fianna, and they stood with slack knees and hanging hands waiting for death. But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at Cael with such a smash that the man's head spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground.
Long this night the clouds delay I raise their grave carn, stone on stone, For Finn and Fianna passed away I, Ossian left alone. ++ Pronounced Isheen' in Munster, Osh'in in Ulster. In more senses than one Irish folk-lore is Irish history.
But the desire of the girl's heart was set upon Fergus who was a mortal, and one of the Fianna of Ireland.
Every evening the bacachs and beggars and blind men and fiddlers would gather into the house and listen to his songs and his poems, and his stories about the old time of the Fianna, and they kept them in their memories that were never spoiled with books; and so they brought his name to every wake and wedding and pattern in the whole of Connaught.
But Fionn was thinking of other things. "If there was any way of warning the Fianna not to come here," Fionn murmured. "There is no way, my darling," said Caevo'g, and she smiled a smile that would have killed Fionn, only that he shut his eyes in time. After a moment he murmured again: "Cona'n, my dear love, give the warning whistle so that the Fianna will keep out of this place."
The Fairy Host went in one direction and the Fianna in another, and Fergus was left standing sorrowfully by the Fairy Rowan Tree. Fergus thought and thought how he might leave off watching it and be with Aine', his bride. At last he bethought him of a Giant who lived on a rocky island with only a flock of goats for his possessions.
As her foot moved a great shout of joy rose from the Fianna. A snarl went over the huge face of the monster and she leaped forward again, but she met Goll's point in the road; it went through her, and in another moment Goll took her head from its shoulders and swung it on high before Fionn. As the Fianna turned homewards Fionn spoke to his great champion and enemy.
That was the boy whom the Fianna called Oisi'n, or the Little Fawn. He grew to be a great fighter afterwards, and he was the chief maker of poems in the world. But he was not yet finished with the Shi. He was to go back into Faery when the time came, and to come thence again to tell these tales, for it was by him these tales were told. We do not know where Becfola came from.
"You are right there," said Cairell. "It takes a good ripe man for that weapon." "Boys are good enough with slings," Confro continued, "but except for eating their fill and running away from a fight, you can't count on boys." The two bulky men turned towards the school of the Fianna. It happened that Fionn mac Uail had summoned the gentlemen of the Fianna and their wives to a banquet.
Then the Fianna gave a roar of exultation, and each man seized his neighbour and kissed him on both cheeks; and they gripped hands about Fionn, and they danced round and round in a great circle, roaring with laughter and relief, in the ecstasy which only comes where grisly fear has been and whence that bony jowl has taken itself away.
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