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But it was through fright the women died, for not one of them had a wound or a bruise or a mark. AT the end of a fortnight Fionn and Goll and the chief men of the Fianna attended at Tara. The king, his son and daughter, with Flahri, Feehal, and Fintan mac Bocna sat in the place of judgement, and Cormac called on the witnesses for evidence.
"Or what?" said Goll with a great laugh. Fionn shook his head sternly and said no more. "What is your judgement?" Cormac demanded of his fellow-judges. Flahri pronounced first. "I give damages to clann-Morna." "Why?" said Cormac. "Because they were attacked first." Cormac looked at him stubbornly. "I do not agree with your judgement," he said. "What is there faulty in it?" Flahri asked.
"You have not considered," the king replied, "that a soldier owes obedience to his captain, and that, given the time and the place, Fionn was the captain and Goll was only a simple soldier." Flahri considered the king's suggestion. "That," he said, "would hold good for the white-striking or blows of fists, but not for the red-striking or sword-strokes."
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