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Updated: June 4, 2025
He thought too on the tidings he had for his comrade Flann Flann was the Son of the King who was called the Hunter-King and of Sheen whose brothers had been changed into seven wild geese. He shook his horse's reins and went back towards the Town of the Red Castle. Flann thought upon the Princess Flame-of-Wine.
"I came back to make you tell me what Queen and King were my mother and father." "Why should you think a King and Queen were your father and mother?" they said to him. "Because I have on my breast the stars of a son of a King," said Flann, "and," said he, "I have in my hand a sword that will make you tell me." He came towards them and they were afraid.
"Crom Duv has not come back yet," said she, "but oh, my dear, my dear, I can't prevent the yellow cats from watching you come over the wall." First six cats came and then another six and they sat round and watched Flann come down the wall. They did nothing to him, but when he came down on the ground they followed him wherever he went.
But where the skin goes the poison is taken out of the water for a while, and a living creature can cross behind it if he is cautious." "I thank you for showing me the way to cross the moat," said Flann. "I don't mind showing you," said Rory the Fox, and he went off to his burrow. There were deer-skins and calf-skins both sides of the moat. Flann took a calf's skin.
He gave a whistle to let Morag know he was over. Then he went through a little wood and came to the Moat of Poisoned Water. Very ugly the dead water looked. Ugly stakes stuck up from the mud to pierce any creature that tried to leap across. And here and there on the water were patches of green poison as big as cabbage leaves. Flann drew back from the Moat.
The Spae-Woman had sent a message to Caintigern the Queen to tell her she had tidings of her first-born son. Thereupon Caintigern went to the Spae-Woman's house and Gilveen, her attendant, went with her. She found there Flann who had been known as Gilly of the Goatskin, and knew him for the son who had been stolen from her when he was born.
"Either she is a woman of this world to be punished, or she is a woman of the Shi' to be banished, but this holy morning she was in the Shi', and her arms were about the neck of Flann." The king sank back in his chair stupefied, gazing from one to the other, and then turned an unseeing, fear-dimmed eye towards Becfola. "Is this true, my pulse?" he murmured.
"I will," said the fox, "if you promise never to hunt me nor any of my little family." "I promise," said Flann. "Well," said Rory, "the water poisons every skin. Now the reason that I pushed the calf's skin across was that it might take the poison out of the water. The water poisons every skin.
A smith groomed and decked horses for all of them and they rode towards the King of Ireland's Castle, MacStairn, the Woodman, going before to announce their coming. The King of Ireland waited at the stone where the riders to his Castle dismount, and his steward, his Councillor and his Druid were beside him. He lifted his wife off her horse and she brought him to Flann.
And he told them too about the next place they should go to the Spae-woman's house. There, he said he would find people that they knew Flann, the King's Son's comrade, and Caintigern, the wife of the King of Ireland, and Fedelma's sister, Gilveen.
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