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Updated: July 14, 2025
This grace fell to the lady Grania, whose whole heart rose up against her grey-bearded lover, and was indeed set on Diarmuid the son of Duibné.
Now my courage is fallen down, I not to hear you but to be always remembering your ways. Och! my grief is going through me. A thousand curses on the day when Grania gave you her love, that put Finn of the princes from his wits; it is a sorrowful story your death is to-day. You were the man was best of the Fenians, beautiful Diarmuid, that women loved.
I flatly refuse to take the high-minded mountain filly seriously as a tragic heroine, and I confess I hold Finn equally suspect, disguised as a beggar though he is, when he speaks of himself to Grania as a hard man "as hard as a barren step-mother's slap, or a highway gander's gob." After all, in heroic literature, we must have the illusion of the heroic.
It is the same spiritual energy, working itself out in another way, transmuted by the sacred fire into a divine mission. In the same way the strong will of Meave, the romantic power of Deirdré and Grania, transmuted to ideal purposes, was the inspiration of Saint Brigid and so many like her, who devoted their powers to the religious teaching of women.
When Finn found that Grania had fled with Dermat, great was his wrath, and he called to him his nobles, and ordered them with all speed to follow in the track of Dermat and Grania. And Finn went with them, nor was the track hard to follow until they came to the river Shannon, but there it was lost and no man could find it.
And they were put in the one grave, and it was Caoilte raised the stone over them. A Sleepy Song that Grania Used to Be Singing over Diarmuid the Time They Were Wandering and Hiding from Finn Sleep a little, a little little, for there is nothing at all to fear, Diarmuid grandson of Duibhne; sleep here soundly, Diarmuid to whom I have given my love.
Then Caintigern said, giving the Spae-Woman her secret name, "O Grania Oi, let it be that my brothers be changed back to men!" When she said this she saw the Spae-Woman coming across the court-yard. The Spae-Woman waved her hands over the bent figures. They lifted themselves up as men as naked, gray men. The Spae-Woman gave each a garment and the seven men came into the house.
Fionn was the most skilled, and at length he said, 'There is but one move that can save you the game, O Ossian, and I dare all that are by to show you that move. And in the top of the tree Diarmid heard him, and said, 'O Ossian, why am I not there to show you? 'It is worse for you to be here in the power of Fionn, than for Ossian to lack that move, answered Grania.
This time he fell into a deep slumber, and a third time the hound bayed, and he woke and said to Grania, 'Now it is day, and I will go. 'Well, then, said she, 'take your large sword and the red javelin. But Diarmid answered, 'No, I will take the little sword that bites, and the small javelin, and my favourite hound on a chain.
'Tell me who are those that have passed by, said Hanrahan. 'Those that passed first, the woman said, 'are the lovers that had the greatest name in the old times, Blanad and Deirdre and Grania and their dear comrades, and a great many that are not so well known but are as well loved.
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